It also includes a 12-inch passive radiator, a midbass module with 61/2-inch and 4-inch molded-composite cones, and a 1-inch, reinforced silk-dome tweeter with neodymium magnet. This handsome, 85-pound, 4-foot-tall 4-way design, raised on a pair of metallic-finished crosspieces and either spikes or disc feet, features a 300W, class-D, pulse-width-modulation (digital) amplifier driving a 10-inch, side-mounted subwoofer of molded composite.
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It sells these and other brands of A/V gear direct from its catalog, via the Internet, and in its own retail stores in New England and Northern California.ĬSW's top-of-the line, magnetically shielded, Newton Series T500 Tower ($2199.99/pair), with built-in powered subwoofer, is probably the company's most ambitious product. Today, Cambridge SoundWorks manufactures more than 60 products, including radios, multimedia speakers, and mini home-theater surround-speaker systems. Kloss later jumped back in with the Model 88, which costs about half of what the Bose Wave costs, and, with its built-in powered subwoofer, sounds superior to many listeners (though the Bose looks better). When I ran into Kloss at a taping for The Learning Channel's History of High Fidelity special, in which we both appeared, he told me that he regretted abandoning high-performance radio because it left the market wide open for marketing genius Amar Bose.
Cambridge SoundWorks, established by Kloss in 1988 and later sold to Creative Technology Ltd., began as a direct marketer of innovative, inexpensive, overachieving radios and powered multimedia speaker systems.
The late electronics wizard Henry Kloss, founder of Advent and co-founder of Acoustic Research and KLH, devised the concept of the high-performance compact radio back in the 1960s, and he invented timeless products to back up that innovative idea: His classic KLH Model 8 tabletop radio is still sought after, still sounds great, and fetches $500 and up on Internet auction sites.
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