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Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from Digital Phase, Chatt

Summary:
I have had these speakers for close to 4 years. They still sound as good as the day that I brought them home. I am unaware of a better sounding speaker. This company is based out of Chattanooga Tn. and is fairly small, but don't let that fool you. They have a patented cabinet design that allows small drivers to deliver ground shaking bass tones. I have auditioned the AP-2's and AP-4's. If I had the funds my home would be littered with these things. They truly have to be heard to be appreciated. I suggest a vacation to Choo Choo city and drop by and hear these things! Piano, strings, drums-they are all acurately reproduced. In addition, these are one of the few speakers that I have heard that are totally balanced. The bass and mids do not drown out the highs and visa versa. I can't say enough! the rock group Kansas uses a pro version of these for their concerts!

Strengths:
Priced, build, appearance, sound, .....

Weaknesses:
Not more widely known/sold

Similar Products Used:
Definitive, Snell, Mission, Klipsch, Infinity, Bose, Polk, on and on....

Price Paid:  $900.00 from Friend

Summary:
My wife and I bought these speakers a couple of years ago as the first part of a home theater system. We also both have a love for music and intened to use these to listen to our favorite tunes as well. I am using a Harman/Kardon AVR-210 reciever to push these with at 45w per channel. The imaging on these is exceptional. You almost don't even need the remainder of the channels when watching a movie to get the full effect of your DVD. When listening to music you can hear every string, every drum, every symbol, while not being muffled by the base line.

Strengths:
Right out of the box excellent sound! Good asthetics, well crafted, good internal components.

Weaknesses:
A bit pricy but it is a higher end speaker.

Similar Products Used:
Definitive BP-6, BP-2002, Mission, Snell Acoustics, etc.

Price Paid:  $400.00 from online classified

Summary:
My review is short and conditional. I have these speakers set up in a small listening area, these are not nearfield speakers, and yet that is there current occupation. In this unfortunate non conducive, but all that I have, listening room, I have placed in AP1's stead some old EPI 120's that easily outperformed the Digital Phase AP1 until I tilted them up at a slight angle the same way that Klipsch Heresy II's could be had with optional factory risers that did the exact same thing. I tell you it has made all the difference. Then these speakers become an instrumental speaker, difficult musical reproductional instruments like piano and strings like guitar and violin come off natural and full bodied. And isn't one of the higher aspirations in speaker sound being able to naturally reproduce the full spectrum of nuance within the sound of a paino and/or guitar? I intend to think about a stable and sound deadening way to permently raise the front end by a 3/4 to an inch rise, beyond that and the sound starts to thin, and then set them up in a proper sized listening area to see if the improvement actually elevates as well, performance in its ideal setting.

Strengths:
Strong build quality, natural sounding, good instrumental speaker made into excellent sounding one with a little tweek. Due to the fact they are not well known they tend to be less than they should be, I paid $400 for near mint's when they retail for $1,300 new.

Weaknesses:
Unsure except under my less than ideal listening environment, in this setting, without tilting, can be uninvolving and lacking a high top or low bottom

Similar Products Used:
Non, have previously owned JBL 4312c studio monitors