Definitive Technology BP7000SC User Manual

Definitive Technology BP7000

SC

SuperTower Speaker System

Group until you’ve heard it through

this system. Those BPVX/P sur-

rounds can rock!

Not everyone can afford the

new BP7000

SC

speakers (or the

entire system). The slightly

smaller BP7001

SC

, which incorpo-

rates a SuperCube I  sub, is avail-

able for $1,749 each. If you can

scrape up the cash, however,

you’ll experience a rare treat:

truly refined, high-end-caliber

speakers with huevos the size of

Volkswagen Beetles, speakers

that will be equally welcome in a

symphony conductor’s home or

the wildest frat house. If Fay

Wray and King Kong had hit it

off and settled down, the

BP7000

SC

s would be the perfect

speakers for them. Just be careful

what you listen to, or you may find

yourself appreciating types of

music you never thought possible.

Parisian-café/Gypsy-jazz music is

more your style, you’ll be instantly

smitten with the life and energy

(and bass) that come from the

BP7000

SC

s with “Danse des

Esprits” and “Attraction” from

Paris Combo’s Attraction disc. 

If you’re into pre-Enya Celtic

music, the sense of space and

honest fidelity you’ll hear on

“Figal’s Mach/Halting March”

from Ensemble Galilei’s Music 

is especially

breathtaking.

Not wanting to leave me want-

ing when it came to home theater,

Definitive Technology sent along

their best center channel, the

C/L/R 3000, a direct-radiating

speaker that includes its own pow-

ered subwoofer. They also sent a

pair of their best bipolar surround

speakers, the BPVX/Ps, which

(wouldn’t you know) also include

powered woofers, to create dra-

matic accompaniment for the

BP7000

SC

s. Since I’d already given

the main speakers a workout with

two-channel music, I was prepared

for the excellent way the system

handled the soft interplay between

music and Foley sound throughout

the beginning of The Red Violin. I

was totally unprepared, however,

for the frightfully powerful blasts

that came during U-571’s depth

charges. I don’t know of any other

speakers—without help from an

external subwoofer—that can

generate that kind of explosive

bellicosity. Likewise, the center

channel’s extra sonic reach, cour-

tesy of that powered subwoofer,

made the opening narration of The

sound authentically

rich and deep, while the

BP7000

SC

s’ subs made sure that

the sense of foreboding was

omnipresent.

Multichannel music may have

been the most enchanting, espe-

cially Standing in the Shadows of

. It’s a disc that lets all of

the system’s qualities shine—the

high energy, the excitement, the

bass, and the pinpoint accuracy—

especially on tracks like “Heard

It Through the Grapevine” and

“Brokenhearted.” And you haven’t

heard “PVC IV ” from Blue Man

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Excerpted from the October 2003 issue of HOME THEATER. 

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