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Definitive Technology
BP-2000 Speaker System
By Brent Butterworth
"Absolutely kills most
more-expensive speakers!"
This bipolar Sometimes the amateurs can
teach the pros a lesson.
After I fell in love with high-end
superspeaker
loudspeakers several years ago, I
often told friends who were shop-
shoots both
ping for speakers to go check
them out. I was blown away by the
ways, but
precise, almost holographic sonic
imaging some of these speakers
both lead to
could produce, and thought my
friends would be, too.
astounding
But three of them came out of
the store with a speaker I'd never
sound and a
heard of—the
Definitive
Hot Ticket.
Technology
BP-10. They
chose the
BP-10 because
it had better
bass and
A. The BPX bipolar
bigger sound
speaker adds a rare,
than the brands
but pleasant dose of
I'd recommend-
bass to the surround
ed. I called
channel.
Definitive
B. Each BP-2000 has
president Sandy
drivers on the front
Gross to bum
and back, which
a pair and find
produce a larger
out what the
area of good sound.
ruckus was all
C. The C/L/R 2000
takes care of the
center channel, mak- A
ing movie dialog
extremely clear.
about, and after a couple of hours
of listening, I was converted. I've
been recommending Definitive
Technology's bipolar speakers to
friends, relatives, and readers for
years now, and no one's ever
been disappointed.
"astounding sound"
Bipolar speakers have drivers
on both the front and back.
Because you get the direct-radiated
sound from the front drivers and a
heapin' helpin' of reflected sound
B
from the rear drivers, you get good
sound over a larger area of the
room. Thus, you don't have to sit
with your head in the sweet spot,
at exactly the same distance from
the front left and right speakers,
to get great sound.
For home theater—where you
often have loved (or at least liked)
ones sitting around watching a
movie with you—bipolars make a
lot of sense. They can't create the
precise, pinpoint imaging you get
when you sit in the sweet spot of
the best direct-radiating speakers,
but my patience for sitting with
NEW BP-2000TL
NOW even more incredible
with 500-watt amp
my head in just the right spot
lasts for about five minutes at
best. That's why I love bipolars,
and why I think you will, too.
"a hands-down
best buy"
Definitive has always concentrat-
ed on making affordable products,
but decided it was time to create a
real high-end speaker. To do so,
they pulled the usual trick of
switching to better drivers (each
face of the speaker has two 6 1/2-
inch woofer/midranges and a
1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter),
but they also added a feature that
makes this system a hands-down
best buy—each speaker has a
15-inch powered subwoofer built
in! The BP-2000 actually incorpo-
rates three cabinets internally: one
C
for the side-fir-
ing sub, and
one each for
the front and
back driver
sets. And all
these compo-
nents
fit into a sur-
prisingly slim
cabinet that
will actually
look nice in
your living
room.
So how do
you connect a
speaker that