What is Home Theatre?

If great hi-fi brings you closer to the reality of the musical experience, the best home theater systems perform a subtly different function: they transport you to another environment altogether. Proper home theater systems are intended to recreate the sound, vision and even acoustics of a cinema, removing you from the confines of your front room and transporting you into the larger, more spacious environs of the movie theater. If the system is working well, it should feel like you're 'there’ – every bit as involved in the film as you would be watching it from the best seat in the best cinema in town. With the added advantage that you can better control your environment (and the volume levels of your fellow viewers) than you can in most cinemas.

We believe that the best home theater experience stems from carefully matched, properly configured speaker systems able to accurately relay the full dynamic range of even the most demanding cinema soundtracks. For us, great home theater is about more than the crude ‘boom and bang’ stereotypes used to describe home theatre sound in some circles. We believe that a good system should also deliver the emotion in a voice, the detail in an ambient surround effect and  the subtlest nuance of a music score. In other words, it should relay every sonic element as accurately as great hi-fi. That’s why we manufacture home theater speakers with exactly the same care and attention as our dedicated hi-fi designs. It’s also why our best hi-fi components can also perform superbly in a home theater context.