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NEW BP-2000TL

NOW even more incredible

with 500-watt amp

Sometimes the amateurs can

teach the pros a lesson.

After I fell in love with high-end

loudspeakers several years ago, I

often told friends who were shop-

ping for speakers to go check

them out. I was blown away by the

precise, almost holographic sonic

imaging some of these speakers

could produce, and thought my

friends would be, too.

But three of them came out of

the store with a speaker I’d never

heard of—the

Deﬁnitive

Technology

BP-10. They

chose the

BP-10 because

it had better

bass and

bigger sound

than the brands

I’d recommend-

ed. I called

Deﬁnitive

president Sandy

Gross to bum

a pair and ﬁnd

out what the

ruckus was all

my head in just the right spot

lasts for about ﬁve minutes at

best. That’s why I love bipolars,

and why I think you will, too.

Deﬁnitive has always concentrat-

ed on making affordable products,

but decided it was time to create a

real high-end speaker. To do so,

they pulled the usual trick of

switching to better drivers (each

face of the speaker has two 6 1/2-

inch woofer/midranges and a

1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter),

but they also added a feature that

makes this system a hands-down

best buy—each speaker has a

15-inch powered subwoofer built

in! The BP-2000 actually incorpo-

rates three cabinets internally: one

for the side-ﬁr-

ing sub, and

one each for

the front and

back driver

sets. And all

these compo-

nents

ﬁt into a sur-

prisingly slim

cabinet that

will actually

look nice in

your living

room.

So how do

you connect a

speaker that

This bipolar

superspeaker

shoots both

ways, but

both lead to

astounding

sound and a

Hot Ticket.

A. The BPX bipolar

speaker adds a rare,

but pleasant dose of

bass to the surround

channel.

B. Each BP-2000 has

drivers on the front

and back, which

produce a larger

area of good sound.

C. The C/L/R 2000

takes care of the

center channel, mak-

ing movie dialog

extremely clear.

“a hands-down

best buy”

about, and after a couple of hours

of listening, I was converted. I’ve

been recommending Deﬁnitive

Technology’s bipolar speakers to

friends, relatives, and readers for

years now, and no one’s ever

been disappointed.

Bipolar speakers have drivers

on both the front and back.

Because you get the direct-radiated

sound from the front drivers and a

heapin’ helpin’ of reﬂected sound

from the rear drivers, you get good

sound over a larger area of the

room. Thus, you don’t have to sit

with your head in the sweet spot,

at exactly the same distance from

the front left and right speakers,

to get great sound.

For home theater—where you

often have loved (or at least liked)

ones sitting around watching a

movie with you—bipolars make a

lot of sense. They can’t create the

precise, pinpoint imaging you get

when you sit in the sweet spot of

the best direct-radiating speakers,

but my patience for sitting with

“astounding sound”

By Brent Butterworth

Deﬁnitive Technology

BP-2000 Speaker System

“Absolutely kills most

more-expensive speakers!”

has a built-in sub? Simple. Each

BP-2000 has separate binding

posts for the tweeter, the

midranges, and the subwoofer.

The BP-2000s come with jumpers

that connect all these posts, so

you can just hook up one set of

speaker cables and be done with

it. Your amp doesn’t actually drive

the sub—the BP-2000 converts

the high-level signal from your

amp back down to a low-level

signal, ﬁlters out the highs, then

sends the signal to the sub’s own

300-watt amp. If you want better

sound, though, you can discon-

nect the jumpers from the sub’s

binding posts and run a line-

level signal straight from your

processor or receiver to the sub’s

line-level input. If you really

want to get wild, you can even bi-

wire by running separate wires to

the midranges and the tweeter.

The C/L/R-2000 center speaker

uses the same drivers as one half

of a BP-2000: two 6 1/2-inch

woof/mids and a single tweeter.

It ﬁts easily atop almost any rear-

projection or large direct-view

TV. The BPX surround speaker is

bipolar—it uses two 5-inch woofers

and a 1-inch tweeter on each face.

Bipolar surrounds give you some of

the “spreadin’ the sound around”

effect that you get from the dipole

speakers used in THX systems.

Bipolar speakers have both halves

wired in phase; dipolar speakers

have both halves wired out of phase.

Because bipoles don’t diffuse the

sound as much, they’re actually bet-

ter than dipoles for use with Dolby

AC-3 Digital Surround systems.

When we hooked up the

BP-2000 system to the beefy

Sunﬁre amps, we got a sound

so smooth, so

creamy, and so

crankin’ that we

were taken

aback.

Deﬁnitive’s past

speakers have

sounded great,

but the BP-2000s

mark a huge step

up. The sound’s

as bipolar as it

gets. You get the

big, slightly dif-

fuse sound that

Deﬁnitives are

famous for, but

you get more—

more of the detail

you expect from a

high-end speaker,

more of the bass

you expect from

dual 15-inch

subs, and more of

the smooth,

uncolored

response you

expect from a

company’s ﬂagship speaker. No

matter what kind of music you

like, be it soft or slammin’, the

BP-2000s sound right with it.

They even sounded fairly smooth

with my favorite way-too-bright

recording, Essential Steve Earle.

The system’s even more

remarkable when it comes to

movie soundtracks. Dialog

sounds extraordinarily clear

through the C/L/R-2000 center

speaker, and its sound matches

that of the BP-2000s so well that

sounds moving across the front

three speakers barely seem to

change in timbre. The BPX

sounds meaty and full, adding

an unusual (but very welcome)

amount of bass and punch in the

surround channel. Best of all,

the BP-2000’s bass sounds very

solid—it’s tight enough for

outstanding music reproduction,

but it puts out enough boom to

satisfy the biggest bass freaks.

“…one of the easiest

recommendations

we’ve ever made.”

“bipolar

superspeaker”

D. Don’t clear out

any ﬂoor space for

a subwoofer with

this system—each

BP-2000 has a built-

in powered woofer.

E. A 300-watt amp

drives each 15-inch

woofer, which has

line-level inputs so

you can get the

best sound.

11105 Valley Heights Dr., Baltimore, MD 21117

(410) 363-7148

SUMMARY

Deﬁnitive Technology’s latest

speaker system is one of

the easiest recommendations

we’ve ever made. Unless you’re

married to the pinpoint imaging

concept (and the head-in-a-vise

listening position it

requires), you’re sure to

like this system. And

even though the total

price might seem high…,

this system’s a

great deal when you

consider that it includes

two powered subs, and

that it absolutely kills most

more-expensive speakers.

Sound Quality

Build Quality

Butt Kickage

Ease of Setup

Value

Reprinted with permission from the November 1995 issue of CurtCo’s HOME THEATER TECHNOLOGY.

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