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BP7000

s’ soundstage is second to none. If given space, and

they do need space, the BP7000

s’ soundstage can and will

best my longstanding reference, the Magnepan 3.6s. Not only

did the BP7000

s’ soundstage extend further and wider than

the 3.6s had, they had a ﬁrmer grip on the music even in the

furthest reaches of their capabilities than the 3.6s could ever

hope to achieve.

Moving onto the track “Deceptively Yours,” which is a bit more

up-tempo than the previous track, the BP7000

s continued to

grace me with magic. The opening drum riff that heralds Norah’s

vocals was impressive. It’s not a bombastic ﬁll, but it does burst

onto the scene about 10 seconds into the track and sets the tempo

for what’s to come. Once again, the subs proved most impressive,

giving the entire track a fullness you’d never know you were

missing until you incorporated subwoofers properly into your

system. The entire song had an extra injection of funk because

of the staggering bass performance of the BP7000

s. I cranked

the volume to the edge of my listening envelope for the guitar

solo and found I could actually take it a little further, for the

BP7000

s never became harsh or fatiguing. The bluesy guitar

riff was richly and rightly detailed with the appropriate amount of

warmth and subtle sonic twang that the BP7000

s just had a ball

swanking out. It really was kind of cool and a bit refreshing, for

here I was basking in the glory of a speaker system that seemingly

gets it for the cost you’d expect to pay in tax alone for the

competition. And they do bass. Go ﬁgure.

“Deﬁnitive Technology has built one of the

single most impressive brands in the highly

competitive world of loudspeakers”

Deﬁnitive Technology’s Complete BP7000

Bipolar

SuperTower Home Theater System with the

C/L/R 3000 and a pair of BPVX/Ps.

I switched gears a bit and

opted for a recent Pearl Jam

release, Riot Act (Epic). The

opening to the track “I Am

Mine” was rife with detail.

The cymbals don’t sparkle

the way some recordings do,

but they were dead on for what

they were. You could tell the

cymbals were being beaten,

for the shimmer was replaced

with a hint of ﬂat slap that

the tweeter of the BP7000

reproduced beautifully. The

drums once again reigned supreme, lending a truer sense of

weight and scale to the somewhat tamer sound of today’s mature

Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder’s vocals were dead center in the

soundstage and retained all the grit and rawness a decade of

screaming would hope to produce, yet there was a slightly greater

palpability to it all through the BP7000

s’ warmer midrange.

The midrange characteristic never detracted from the tonality or,

I should say, tone and message of the song itself.

Moving onto the track “You Are,” the opening guitars were raw

and loaded with energy. Through the BP7000

s, the guitars were

sure-footed and full-bodied, never becoming overtly harsh or

troublesome to the rest of the musical spectrum. Dynamically,

the BP7000

s proved to be a tour de force. “You Are” features

several abrupt changes in tempo, usually followed by abrupt stops

altogether. Well, for such a large and seemingly menacing speaker

with its powered woofers, the BP7000

s are as quick on their

feet as Ali. They can ﬂoat like a butterﬂy and sting like a

sledgehammer to the skull. As unpleasant as that may sound to

some, trust me, you’ll get in line to experience it again and again.

All and all, be it rock and roll or ensemble jazz, the BP7000

seemingly have no prejudices, they’re in the business of making

music ... and business is good. Real good.

“Dynamically, the BP7000

s seemingly

have no rivals, as they are able to turn on a

dime and go from zero to everything in the

blink of an eye”

For their next trick, I fed the

BP7000

s some traditional DVD fare

by way of the Pixar juggernaut Finding

Nemo (Disney). Skipping ahead to the

sea turtle scenes, the BP7000

s, with

some help from the matching center

and surrounds, proved as fun as they

were articulate. For starters, the sound

designers who recreated the ocean for

an all-virtual environment, which is

no easy task, were not robbed of their

efforts one iota by the BP7000

s’

output. The sonic landscape was

immense, packing my room with all the subtlety that the ocean

had to offer and more, no doubt helped by the BP7000

’s bipolar

design. Even the most subtle sonic cues, such as the characters

swimming against an oceanic current, were easily heard and

discerned from the ﬁlm’s other elements. The off-screen dialogue

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