Infinity SONY KP-57XBR10W Brochure

Home theater store speaker system - home theater speaker system user manual

Download this manual

AS SEEN IN

Inﬁnity's Interlude

speaker system offers

top-shelf technology

at a nice price.

by Chris Lewis

Inside Gear Guide:

• Inﬁnity Interlude

Speaker System

• Sony KP-57XBR10W

57-Inch Rear-

Projection HD Monitor

• RCA DWD490RE

UltimateTV

DBS Receiver

• Vienna Acoustics

Mozart Speaker

System

Here we go again.

tations last month in the opening of the DTV Face Off about

the cliché phrase "bridge technology," a worn-out phrase that

I shudder to use, given its widespread misuse and question-

able origins. Of course, I then proceed to use it anyway. Well,

it's déjà vu all over again, as it seems to me that the proper

theme for an introduction to Infinity's entry-level Interlude

speaker line must be "trickle-down technology," another

hackneyed phrase that proves to be quite accurate in the

You may remember my lamen-

July 2001

Page 1 Inﬁnity’s Interlude speaker system offers top-shelf technology at a nice price. by Chris Lewis Inside Gear Guide: • Inﬁnity Interlude Speaker System • Sony KP-57XBR10W 57-Inch Rear- Projection HD Monitor • RCA DWD490RE UltimateTV DBS Receiver • Vienna Acoustics Mozart Speaker System Here we go again.
Page 2 right context. And these particular Inﬁnity speakers ﬁt the bill, given that one of their most notable fea- tures is their use of some of the same top-shelf technologies that I went on about in my review of the flagship Prelude MTS line back in November 2000.
Page 3 which includes a test CD, an SPL meter calibrated for low frequen- cies, a measurement template, and a frequency-curve tool Inﬁnity calls the “Q ﬁnder”—all of which are used to plot your room’s fre- quency response and make the necessary adjustments. You can either do the calculations your- self or input your data on the R.A.B.O.S.
Page 4 put them at the top of their class in this department (which tells you just how good they sound with music). The IL25c is a nice little center and is certainly par for the course in terms of performance, but there’s only so much a speaker of this size can do when so much emphasis is being placed on it.