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Phase technology ats1: reference guide

Performance

Review

BY MARK FLEISCHMANN

PHASE TECHNOLOGY

ATS-1SPEAKERS

SURROUND SOUNDFORTHEGREAT OUTDOORS (ANDINDOORS)

Phase Technology of Jacksonville, Fla., born in 1955, has

been around longer than I have. I was still learning how to

walk and talk when Bill Hecht, a certified audio pioneer,

manufactured

some of the earliest bookshelf speakers for Avery

Fisher in 1959. His other patented achievements include the soft

dome tweeter, the self-damping woofer coil and silicon-injected dri-

vers that defeat resonance. He's now part of a father-and-son team

with his son Ken Hccht who recently dropped by my Manhattan

fortress to set up a 5.1-channel array of the Phase Technology ATS-

1 with the Power 8 subwoofer.

ATS stands for All-Terrain Speaker and the ATS-1 is indeed an

indoor/outdoor model. Since I live four floors up, I was more inter-

ested to hear how it would hold up in my home theater system. The

two-way design includes a I-inch soft dome tweeter (of course) and

a 4-inch mineral-filled woofer with rubber surround in a curvaceous

ultraviolet-resistant

molded-plastic enclosure. The grilles are alu-

E-GEAR

JULYIAUGUST 2002

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Page 1 Ken Hccht who recently dropped by my Manhattan Review ATS-1SPEAKERS fortress to set up a 5.1-channel array of the Phase Technology ATS- 1 with the Power 8 subwoofer. ATS stands for All-Terrain Speaker and the ATS-1 is indeed an indoor/outdoor model.
Page 2 A little too bright on female voice? Not really, though the overall tonal balance was somewhat for- ward, and that's not at all a bad thing in a speaker that has to perform outdoors. How was the string sound on the quartet? It was superb,...

Power 8