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December 2011 - Fantastic S - Series review from The Absolute Sound

tas-logo 208The Absolute Sound gives an indepth review of the S - Series: "Perfection Itself"

Highlights from the review include the following quotes:

"The Steinway Lyngdorf S-Series System is a revolutionary audio product. It sets a new standard for what is possible in a compact and rationally priced system. But the true revolution is that the S-Series System redefines not just what a stereo system can do but what it ought to do. In effect, the S-Series System produces in an ordinary room without acoustic treatment the kind of sound that was formerly only available in RFZ (reflection-free zone) systems in purpose-built rooms."

Highlights from the summary:

"I found that going back to almost any other speaker system seemed to be a return to hearing speaker sound that was more or less artificial in a way that I was not hearing with the S-Series System. The S-Series System sounds more like music, less like sound from speakers, no ifs, ands, or buts about it."

"Two things do especially strike me and did throughout. First, the S-Series System really does do what it sets out to do."
"Second, while the system is hardly a budget item, it reaches a level of performance that is startling for the price. Not to put to fine a point on it, the S-Series System sounds to me more musically accurate and truthful to the material than many, in fact most, of the ultrahigh priced systems I have encountered, and does this at a far lower price."

"You have never heard anything quite like it, and you may not be able to settle for anything else."

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Part of an award-winning installation on the Big Island of Hawaii, this Steinway Lyngdorf Model LS home theater fulfills the client’s request to create a best-in-class home theater experience. 

This system consists of Model LS front speakers, Model LS Boundary Woofers and in-wall Model M L/R speakers all hidden behind the acoustically transparent screen and fabric wall panels. The electronics driving the system are the Model P1 Surround Processor and Model A1 Digital Amplifiers.

As the client will testify, the performance is world class, which is a direct result of Steinway Lyngdorf’s Core Technologies.  Specifically, the use of Model LS Line Source speakers offers two crucial advantages - (1)they deliver incredible sound pressure without distortion, and (2) they provide consistent SPL (Sound Pressure Level, or volume) throughout the entire theater.   In other words, the front row and the back row share the same audio experience.   This theater system, like all Steinway Lyngdorf systems, utilizes Steinway Lyngdorf’s proprietary RoomPerfectTM correction system.   RoomPerfect™ measures the room and builds a 3-dimensional map of the sound field allowing the system to self-calibrate for the room, while creating seamless time alignment and true bass steering.