DEFINITIVE TECHNOLOGY BP9060

US firm Definitive Technology has not been one to follow the loudspeaker maker herd. To put a number on the ways in which the BP9060 speakers diverge from the norm, depending on how wide you consider the ‘norm’ to be, we’d say three ways, perhaps four.

EQUIPMENT

First, these loudspeakers are bipolar. That is, they have drivers on the front, and drivers on the back, and all the drivers are in phase. The point of this kind of design is to produce a more diffuse sound from the speakers, particularly in the higher frequencies which, in regular loudspeakers, tend to have a very well-defined point of origin. With these speakers the higher frequencies are coming directly from the front drivers, and indirectly from the rear ones, with much of that reflected from the rear wall and