Definitive Technology Mythos Eight Brochure page 2

but think that either the pressure has finally
gotten to them or they've come up with
something truly special.
"these guys have hit more
home runs than Babe
Ruth, Hank Aaron,
Mark McGwire, and
Barry Bonds combined"
This year's unveiling was of a speaker that
Mythos Optimus
Sandy Gross had been hinting at for
months—the mother of all Mythos speak-
ers, the Mythos ST. The Mythos line, in case
you're unfamiliar with it, was revolutionary
when it first appeared several years ago.
(Since then, many other speaker companies
have brought out similar designs.) Mythos
speakers are very slender, with curved alu-
minum cabinets, and are available as
floorstanding towers and on-wall/bookshelf
speakers. In other words, they aren't rectan-
gular boxes, and they exhibit a bit more style
than is typical.
"due to the might of the
Mythos STs built-in
woofers... I felt the
impact of individual
pressure waves from
the left and right
drum sets."
DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY MYTHOS ST SUPERTOWER SPEAKER SYSTEM
Build Quality
Sound, looks, and
Aluminum mono-
coque cabinet is construction this
extremely dense good are almost
and nonresonant impossible to find
at anywhere near
Granite base is
this price
attractive, but
attach carefully to
avoid noisy air leaks
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Mythos ST SuperTower Powered Tower Speaker, $1,799/each; Mythos Eight On-Wall Center Channel Speaker, $699/each;
Mythos Gem XL Surround Speaker, $349/each
At the time of their introduction, how-
ever, unlike the majority of the other styl-
ishly svelte speakers available up to that
time, the Mythos speakers sounded good—
really good to me. And they didn't carry the
standard exorbitant "style" surcharge. Since
then, Def Tech has continued to refine the
Mythos concept, adding floorstanding and
on-wall models of various sizes.
"thanks to the genius of
head honcho Sandy Gross
and company... visiting
the Def Tech booth is a
bit like going to the
Home Run Derby before
the All-Star Game."
I can't quite call the new Mythos ST a
refinement; and, yet, it's not a revolution,
either, since it's so firmly grounded in its
Mythosological heritage. But the ST is dra-
matically different—the emphasis being on
"drama." Whereas all of the previous
Mythos models possessed style and class,
the Mythos ST adds gravitas, a sense of
sophistication and strength. It's something
that's not easy to come by, even in much
more expensive speakers. The best way to
characterize this powerful new beauty is to
call it an achievement. In fact, the Mythos
ST may well be the ultimate achievement of
the Mythos milieu—a true tour de Mythos.
Value Features
LFE inputs on
Mythos STs for
optional use
On-wall brackets
included with cen-
ter and surrounds
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General information
Definitive Technology, (410) 363-7148, www.definitivetech.com
In order to maintain their slender form
Mythmaker
factor, Mythos speakers rely on relatively
small midbass drivers. They sound good on
their own, but Def Tech designed the series
to be used with a powered subwoofer. The
Mythos STs depart from that tradition by
including a powered woofer in each tower,
as do many of Definitive Technology's other
speakers. Def Tech designed this particular
woofer specifically for the Mythos ST; it
uses a new 6-by-10-inch "racetrack" (oval)
active driver that's acoustically coupled with
a pair of similarly sized planar passive radi-
ators. A 300-watt internal digital amp
powers the driver. Definitive claims the
built-in woofer is the sonic equivalent of
their $1,199 SuperCube I standalone
powered subwoofer. But the Mythos ST's
overall form factor and basic proportions are
"Mythos STs were just as
adept at letting loose as
they were at getting up
close and personal"
similar to those of the other Mythos models.
The result is a speaker that exudes power
and class.
the Mythos ST is new from the ground up,
including a new voice coil and high-energy
magnet, a new dome design, a new
Performance Ergonomics
Center and sur-
Has dynamic bass
rounds are designed
response with seri-
for on-wall or
ous punch
off-wall use
Smooth transition
You don't even
between surrounds
have to consider
and fronts
using a separate
subwoofer
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The 1-inch aluminum dome tweeter in
OVERALL RATING
9 5
9 5
It' s extremely rare to find a
system that offers performance for
both music and movies in a pack-
age that looks this stunning. And
it's even more rare to find it at
this price.
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