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George uses a pair of three-inch woofers with coaxially mounted tweeters.

In addition to its coaxial speakers, George has a four-inch down-firing sub.

George's back panel offers an Aux input, headphone output, preamp output, USB port, and bass level control.

See these two smiling faces? That's my uncle Omar on the left. He's standing with John Rutan of <a href="http://www.audioconnect.com/">Audio Connection</a> in Verona, New Jersey, a short and happy drive from downtown Jersey City, along the Parkway and up good old Bloomfield Avenue, dotted with trees and liquor stores, pizzerias and movie theaters. A very fine place, indeed.

My great friends, Omar and Mikey, striking The Audiophile Pose, at Audio Connection in Verona, New Jersey.

<I>Room lock</I> occurs when a set of loudspeakers reproduces the deep-bass notes of a pipe organ powerfully enough that the sounds can be felt as pressure waves. On Day 2 of the <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007">2007 Home Entertainment Show</A>, in one of the Sound By Singer rooms, our own <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/thefifthelement/">John Marks</A> played his recording of organist James Busby performing Herbert Howells' <I>Master Tallis's Testament</I> through a pair of Fremont loudspeakers from Escalante Design. The sustained bass note at the end of the passage took my breath away&mdash;the stand-mounted Fremonts sounded as open and dynamic as anything else I heard at HE2007. I wondered if they'd sound as good in my home listening room.

"Where did the music go?" I remember vividly the crestfallen looks on the faces of the listeners when, at the demonstrations I did at last October's <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/rmaf2007/">Rocky Mountain Audio Fest</A>, I played the MP3.