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David P. Alexander, vice president of MBL of America, has this to report: "First shown in prototype form at the 2007 Las Vegas CES, MBL of Germany has been hard at work fine-tuning what can only be described as our most ambitious effort to date — the 101X-Treme.
"Building a loudspeaker to significantly better our 101E Radialstrahler was hardly an easy task. And by using that world-class loudspeaker's three pulsating spheres (for bass, midrange, and high frequencies) as a starting point, MBL's engineers and craftspeople created this massive yet sculpturally beautiful four-tower speaker system.
"The main tower holds a pair of mirror-imaged omnidirectional Radialstrahler driver arrays, supported by an armature of acrylic, steel and wood while the lacquered woofer columns house a quartet each of proprietary 12-inch bass drivers.
"The entire array weighs in at 3600 pounds and each 101X-Treme system requires 30 days to fabricate and calibrate and undergoes a series of rigorous tests before final release. Demanding massive amounts of amplifier power, the 101X-Treme System requires bi-amplification by four MBL 9011 Reference Series monoblock power amplifiers ($39,000 each), which deliver 480 watts of continuous power and 5,000 watts of peak power.
"Completing the system are MBL's equally state-of-the-art 6010D preamplifier ($21,650) and digital playback gear, the 1621A CD transport ($21,850) and the recently upgraded 1611F digital-to-analog converter ($22,500).
"Price for the speaker system is $199,000 per pair and availabilit is X-Tremely limited. Only two sets will be available for purchase in the U.S. for all of 2008."
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