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This system is for the collector who already owns the $100,000 turntable and the $50,000 cartridge. It is for the listener who has realized that "high fidelity" is not about flat frequency response, but about emotional engagement . If you want to feel the goosebumps rise on your arm when a soprano hits the high C, or flinch when a bullet casing hits the floor in a movie soundtrack, this is the system.

Forget everything you know about dynamic drivers, box resonance, and "sweet spots." The Extreme 35 is a 4.5-foot-tall, 400-pound manifesto written in carbon fiber, solid oak, and high-voltage physics. Avantgarde Extreme 35

From the opening moments of Avantgarde Extreme 35 , it becomes clear that traditional song structures have been abandoned. In their place is a labyrinthine approach to composition. The listener is not guided through a verse-chorus-verse journey but is instead dragged through a series of sonic tableaus. This system is for the collector who already

The "35" in the name refers to the 35 centimeters of throat depth, but also to the 35 years of horn research Avantgarde is celebrating. The thing is built like a Panzer tank. The wood is hand-polished. The carbon fiber midrange dome is so rigid you could probably use it as a wheel chock for a cement truck. Forget everything you know about dynamic drivers, box

Here is where Avantgarde usually loses me. Horn bass is hard. To get low frequencies out of a horn, the horn has to be the size of a Volkswagen. Usually, companies cheat by adding a conventional woofer.