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REVIEW<br />
GOLDENEAR TECHNOLOGY<br />
Triton Seven<br />
Speakers<br />
By Mark Marcantonio<br />
BR EVIEW<br />
oom! Ba-boom!<br />
The shock of<br />
thunderous bass<br />
waves is what<br />
the GoldenEar<br />
Triton Seven<br />
speakers greet me<br />
with to start a surprising review<br />
experience. Put away your preconceived<br />
notions of what slim, budget<br />
mini-towers should sound like—these<br />
are the first such speakers that don’t<br />
prompt me to add a subwoofer, even<br />
just to see if any bass response is<br />
missing. Unless you’re trying to outthump<br />
the teenage neighbor with the<br />
15-inch woofers in the back of his<br />
hatchback, the Sevens provide as<br />
much bass as you could ever want<br />
from a $1,400 pair of speakers.<br />
Thanks to their dual passive radiators,<br />
the Sevens go down to 29 Hz,<br />
which is plenty of low-frequency extension<br />
for most listeners. From the<br />
instrumental thunderclap in James<br />
Taylor’s “Gaia” and the cannons in<br />
Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” to<br />
Dire Straits’ “The Man’s Too Strong”<br />
and non-ear-bleeding hip-hop or<br />
techno dance music, these speakers<br />
easily provide the necessary weight<br />
to get the job done.<br />
If imaging floats your boat, the<br />
Sevens flood the room with that<br />
characteristic—so much so that my<br />
small man cave (about 9 by 12 feet)<br />
isn’t quite large enough to let them<br />
breathe. In my 14-by-18-foot living<br />
room, the speakers thrive, with instrument<br />
placement that reminds me<br />
of much more expensive speakers.<br />
178 TONE AUDIO NO.64<br />
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