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Cinema
Placing the Centre Speaker 55
Putting a centre speaker right atop a TV set? Sure.
Just build UHF’s special isolation platform.
Issue No. 67
The Listening Room
Choosing a Centre Speaker 31
Got home theatre? Got SACD surround? One of
your speakers will be front and centre.
The Castle Bastion 33
Vandersteen VCC-1 34
Totem Model One Center 35
JMLab Electra CC 900 36
ProAc Response CC-Two 37
Thiel MCS1 39
Reference 3a MM De Capo-i 42
The “i” stands for “improved.” We check out where
the improvements are.
Cover story: The largest of Thiel’s centre speakers,
the MCS1. It is one of half a dozen centre speakers
reviewed in this issue. The backdrop is the private
garden of UHF’s Château Hi-Fi.
Features
Montreal 2003 26
by Gerard Rejskind
UHF goes to the Festival once again.
Festival 2003 27
by Albert Simon
Our roving editor looks for that elusive “Best Room
of the Show”
Rendezvous
The High End in Power 19
A chat with Kathy Gornik, the first woman and
the first high end person to chair the Consumer
Electronics Association.
Nuts&Bolts
The Elements of Acoustics 22
by Paul Bergman
Acoustics is the science of… Yes, of what? Let us
introduce you to the basic concepts.
The Living Voice Avatar OBX-R 46
Looks like every other speaker you’ve ever seen.
Sounds like something else again.
Vecteur AV-6 50
Six channels on a very heavy chassis. Is it as good as
the other amps of the marque?
The Copland CVT-535 Multichannel Amp 53
A great audiophile designer tackles home theatre.
Software
Queen of Country 57
by Reine Lessard
How women turned country music into a medium
that speaks of real life.
Record Reviews 65
by Reine Lessard and Gerard Rejskind
Departments
Editorial 2
Feedback 5
Free Advice 7
Classified Ads 66
Gossip & News 69
State of the Art 72
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