AXPONA Review - Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity

"The afternoon before the start of the show I ran into John Siau of Benchmark Media Systems. He says to me quietly, “make sure you stop in our room, we have a surprise!” "

"With curiosity suitably piqued, Co-Editor Jim Clements and I paid a visit on the Saturday to be greeted by two 87” tall white sticks in the middle of the room."

"These skinny posts that for all the world could pass as antennas were in fact a pair of line array speakers by a company called Laufer Teknik. Called The Note, each speaker is an array of 50 tiny full-range drivers. The arrays are crossed over to a pair of SVS subwoofers."

"The whole shebang was controlled by a DEQX preamp/processor. Next in the signal path was a pair of Benchmark DAC3 B DACs and a pair of AHB2 amplifiers running in mono. An Elephant memory player rounded out the gear."

"The intent of this setup is to create a 360 degree sense of sound with an image that didn’t change at any point in the room. Jim and I tested this out by walking the room and even standing between them. The results were pretty astonishing. A stable, enveloping stereo image that was devoid of any distortion whatsoever."

- Carlo Lo Raso, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity