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from the
test bench
Definitive Technology Mythos Four
The totally bearable lightness of being a Mythos
"They will eat for lunch just about any other system in the price range"
BY DARRYL WILKINSON
So I was chatting with Paris
Hilton the other day about some
arcane aspect of cosmic string
theory (OK , all aspects of cosmic
string theory are arcane to me)

Speaker System

home to drink a seaweed-and-algae
smoothie while meditating on
the problem.
There's simply no doubt about it.
The Mythos speakers that Def Tech
sent me for review–floorstanding
Mythos Fours for the mains, a
Mythos Three for the center, and
when it suddenly
a pair of never-before-seen-by
hit me: The slen-
normal-humans Mythos Gems for
der, silvery beauty
the surrounds, plus a SuperCube
of Definitive Tech-
II subwoofer–were drop-dead
nology's Mythos
gorgeous. I'm talking stunning,
speakers might
can't get-them-out-of-your-mind,
actually be a draw-
wouldn't-kick-them-out-of-bed-for-
back. I was so
eating-Limburger-cheese-and Wassa-
disturbed by this
crispbread gorgeous.
realization that,
using ancient Latin
"perfectly propor-
with such elo-
tioned ... built to
quence it would
appease the gods
have brought tears
of great sound and
to Cicero's eyes, I
stylish décor"
cancelled our date
to go shopping for
The Mythos Four exudes class
the latest opera
and style as it presses upward from
releases on SACD,
its elegant glass base. It soars
returned the new
toward the ceiling like a refined
issue of Foreign
cathedral spire built to appease
Affairs that I'd
the gods of great sound and
borrowed from
stylish décor. The sylphlike
her, and headed
horizontal Mythos Three rested
lightly atop my TV, looking for
all of the world as if it were
only temporarily reclining and
might, at any moment, choose
to soar upward, as well. The
Mythos Gems, about as perfectly