Floor Loudspeaker Reviews

Equipment used for my tests included the Ortofon MC-3000 cartridge with its T-3000 stepup transformer, the Well-Tempered Arm in a SOTA Star Sapphire turntable, Sony CDP-705ESD CD player, PCM-F1 digital tape system, the Threshold FET-10 preamp and line controller, and Threshold SA-1 power amplifiers.

Audio interconnects were Monster M1000s, and speaker cables were the aforementioned Straight Wire Ribbons. My 24'x19'x9' listening room is extensively treated with ASC Tube Traps. Program material was live-performance PCM tapes, and CDs and analog discs from Sheffield, Opus 3, Telarc, and Reference Recordings.—J. Gordon Holt