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Infinity 4.1t Owner's Manual

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Floor-Standing 4-Way
Speaker with Powered
Subwoofer
Infinity
"Intermezzo" 4.1t
Infinity Systems, Inc., a Harman Interna-
tional Company, 250 Crossways Park
Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797. Voice: (800)
553-3332. Fax: (516) 682-3523. Web:
www.infinitysystems.com. Intermezzo 4.1t
floor-standing 4-way loudspeaker system
with built-in powered subwoofer. $7000.00
the pair. Tested samples on loan from man-
ufacturer.
Editor's Note: I hasten to point out,
before the self-righteous element in the
audio community does, that Don Keele is
currently employed by Harman/Becker
Automotive Systems, which is owned by
the same parent company as Infinity Sys-
tems, namely Harman International.
Harman/Becker and Infinity are totally
independent of each other, without any
overlap; in fact, they are located 700 miles
apart—but they are connected via Sidney
Harman's pocket. He, or more precisely his
company, owns a significant percentage of
the audio industry, so that any one of the
limited number of truly qualified audio
engineers (like Don Keele) has more than
a small chance of falling within his
purview. It can't be helped. As I pointed
out in one of the earliest issues of The
Audio Critic, in the late '70s, the alter-
native is to use reviewers totally uncon-
nected to the audio industry, such as
audiophile dentists. Other magazines do.
Unfortunately, said dentists don't know the
difference between MLS and ETF, and
that matters to me more than our
reviewers' affiliations. I can assure you, in
an event, that no one at the corporate of-
fices of Harman International even knew
about this review, let alone influenced it.
Introduction
Intermezzo: a short musical move-
ment separating the major sections of
a lengthy composition or work; or in-
termediate: one that is in a middle po-
sition or state. Both terms aptly
THE AUDIO CRITIC

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  • Page 1 Don Keele is currently employed by Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, which is owned by the same parent company as Infinity Sys- tems, namely Harman International. Harman/Becker and Infinity are totally independent of each other, without any overlap;...
  • Page 2: Manufacturer's Specifications

    Entra, and Modulus lines; and at the same time, of course, does an ex- cellent job playing music. The Intermezzo 4.1t is a tall and relatively narrow floor-standing loud- speaker with built-in powered sub- woofer, packaged in a total system that combines first-class industrial design and handsome good looks.
  • Page 3 Averaged between 250 Hz and 4 kHz, the 4.1t’s 2.83 V rms/1 m sensitivity came out to 86.2 dB, essentially equaling Infinity’s 87 dB rating. The grille caused moderate...
  • Page 4 With the highpass filter on, the low-frequency phase drops to nearly –90°, as it should for a capacitive system. The 4.1t should be an easy load for any competent power ampli- fier or receiver. The continuous sine wave total harmonic distortion (THD) of the In- termezzo 4.1t versus axial sound pres-...
  • Page 5 Fig. 7 and represent the peak levels that can be reached short term, using typical program material. These data indicate that below 40 Hz the 4.1t sig- nificantly outperformed its prede- cessor, the Compositions P-FR system, as I noted in the introduction. The bass output of the 4.1t places it solidly...
  • Page 6 “let’s turn these babies on and see what they’ll do.” The low end of the 4.1t’s did not let me down. It was like having a pair of good subwoofers, one on both sides of my room!
  • Page 7 “The Digital Domain: A Demonstration” (Electra 9-60303-2). The excursion of the woofers of the 4.1t was truly scary, a full 1.2" peak-to-peak capability. The system really came into its own on loud rock music with heavy kick drum and bass guitar.