Definitive Technology Mythos Eight Brochure

from the
test bench
Definitive Technology Mythos ST
SuperTower Speaker System
BY DARRYL WILKINSON
complain about when it comes to Definitive
It's not often that I find something to
Technology, but, lately, I have cause. Every
year, during each of the two major consumer
electronics trade shows, CES and CEDIA,
I (and plenty of other journalists, dealers,
and a few hangers-on who shouldn't have
been let in to begin with) have made the tra-
ditional pilgrimage to the Def Tech booth.
We go there, drawn like corn-bread muffins
to butter, to hear the latest Def Tech incar-
nation, thanks to the genius of head honcho
Sandy Gross and company. As you would
expect, some of these speaker introductions
H I G H P E R F O R M A N C E
Mythos the magnificent.
have been more exciting than others—
the unveiling of the first Mythos
speakers being one of the extra-special
highlights in recent memory. Regardless,
the Definitive Technology booth never
disappoints.
"this is the floorstanding
speaker I'd recommend
that you buy."
Ah, but there's the rub. More than almost
any other company, Def Tech has come up
with speakers that sound good, look good,
and simply make audible sense (rather than
having a $299, $399, $499, fill-in-the-blank
$ $ $ – $ $ $ $
"Definitive Technology
hit this one out of the
park... sound, looks
and construction this
good are almost
impossible to find
at anywhere near
this price."
approach). In fact, these guys have hit more
home runs than Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron,
Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds com-
bined—all without accusations of illegal ste-
riod use. But, to continue the baseball anal-
ogy, visiting the Def Tech booth is a bit like
going to the Home Run Derby before the
All-Star Game. It's tremendously exciting
at first, but, after a while, the excess of suc-
cess leads you to take it all for granted—and
soon you're heading out to get a beer and a
hot dog. Of course, that doesn't make the
achievement any less of an achievement. It
just means that, once you've seen a ball
reach the upper decks, the ones that land just
over the wall in the bleachers don't get quite
as much applause as they should.
I'm sure the self-imposed stress that
comes from pushing yourself to continue to
amaze and delight fans (and frustrate com-
petitors) must be enormous. So, when you
hear things like "the best thing we've ever
done" coming from the confident but unpre-
tentious group at Definitive, you can't help