Anthony Gallo Acoustics Home Theater Loudspeakers

There are thousands of loudspeakers on the market, and many times the choice, despite the technical specs, is determined by how they sound to you.

If you are looking for new set of loudspeakers for your home theater, check out the uniquely designed AV Reference Center Channel Speaker, AV Reference Main Speaker, A'Diva T Satellite Speaker, TR-2 Powered Subwoofer from Anthony Gallo Acoustics.

Anthony Gallo Speakers use a spherical housing for each speaker. By combining several spherically-housed speakers with a unique tweeter design, Gallo has come up with speakers that deliver where it counts - sound quality.

1. Frequency Response: 55Hz to 35kHz (upper bass to well beyond human hearing)

2. Sensitivity: 88dB (represents how loud the speaker is at a distance of one meter with an input of one watt).

3. Impedance: 4 - 8 ohms (can be used with amplifiers that have both 4 or 8 ohm speaker connections)

4. Power Handling: 150 watts RMS (continuous power), 300 watts peak (power over short intervals).

5. Drivers: Four 4” carbon fiber with neodymium magnets.

6. 2 Outer Woofers Cover: 100Hz and down (reproduces the lower bass frequencies) 7. 2 Inner Woofers Cover: 3kHz and down (reproduces the primarily the midrange frequencies).

8. Tweeter: CDTII™ piezo film (120° horizontal dispersion -covers high frequencies above 3KHz).

9. Dimensions: 25-1/8”w x 6-1/4”h x 6”d

10. Can be mounted on option stand or wall mounted. Height on optional stand: 8-3/8". Depth on optional stand: 9".

11. Weight: 23 lbs each (not including optional stand weight).

12. Enclosure: Aluminum/Stainless Steel

13. Finishes: Matte Black, Matte White, Silver-Grey, Black over Stainless Spheres

Product Overview - AV Reference Main Speaker

1. Frequency Response: 55Hz to 35kHz (upper bass to well beyond human hearing)

2. Sensitivity: 88dB (represents how loud the speaker is at a distance of one meter with an input of one watt).

3. Impedance: 4 - 8 ohms (can be used with amplifiers that have both 4 or 8 ohm speaker connections)

4. Power Handling: 150 watts RMS (continuous power), 300 watts peak (power over short intervals).

5. Drivers: Four 4” carbon fiber with neodymium magnets.

6. 2 Outer Woofers Cover: 100Hz and down (reproduces the lower bass frequencies)

7. 2 Inner Woofers Cover: 3kHz and down (reproduces the primarily the midrange frequencies).

8. Tweeter: CDTII™ piezo film (300° horizontal dispersion -covers high frequencies above 3KHz).

9. Dimensions: 25-1/8”w x 6-1/4”h x 6”d.

10. Can be mounted on stand or wall. Height on optional stand: 8-3/8". Depth on optional stand: 9".

11. Weight: 23 lbs each (not including optional stand weight).

12. Enclosure: Aluminum/Stainless Steel

13. Finishes: Matte Black, Matte White, Silver-Grey, Black over Stainless Spheres.

Product Overview - A'Diva T Compact Satellite Speaker

1. Frequency Response: 76Hz to 22Khz (wall mounted), 90Hz to 22kHz (stand mounted)

2. Sensitivity: 87dB (represents how loud the speaker is at a distance of one meter with an input of one watt).

3. Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohms

4. Power Handling (full range): >60 Watts Power Handling (using with another speaker and a crossover): >120 Watts.

5. Driver: 3" pure titanium full range.

6. Cone Material: Paper-damped titanium

7. Speaker Enclosure Dimensions: 5" spherical.

9. Weight: 1.8 lbs

9. Enclosure Materials: Steel/Stainless Steel

10. Finishes: Matte Black, Matte White, Silver-Grey, Stainless Steel

11. Height on Wallflower™ Stand: 37".

Product Overview - TR-2 Powered Subwoofer

1. Frequency Response: 22Hz to 180Hz (LFE - Low Frequency Effects)

2. Power Handling: 250 watts

3. Phase: Continuously variable (synchronizes in-out motion of sub speaker with in-out motion of other speakers in system).

4. Low Pass (frequencies below this point are passed to the subwoofer): 50 to 180Hz, continuously variable.

5. High Pass (frequencies above this point are passed to the main speakers): 80Hz fixed, only on high-level output.

6. Power On/Off: Three-way toggle (One/off/standby).

7. Dimensions: 10.75" W x 12" H x 13.5" D

8. Weight: 36 lbs

9. Connections: RCA Line i/o ports, 5-way Speaker i/o ports.

10. Enclosure: Steel

11. Available Finishes: Black or silver.

Setup - Hardware

Anthony Gallo speakers used included: 1 AV Reference Center, 2 AV Reference Mains, 2 A'Diva T's for surrounds, and 1 TR-2 Subwoofer.

Receivers and Preamp/Amp components used to power the Gallos included: Pioneer Elite VSX-82TXS 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (using 5.1 channel mode), Yamaha HTR-5490 6.1 Channel AV receiver (using 5.1 channel mode), Outlaw Audio Model 950 Preamp/Surround Processor (using 5.1 channel mode) paired with a Butler Audio 5150 5-channel power amplifier, and a Sherwood RV-5050R Pro-Logic Receiver.

Other speakers used in comparison setups with the same Receivers and Preamp/Amp components: 2 Klipsch B-3s, Klipsch C-2, 2 Optimus LX-5IIs, 2 JBL Venue Series 5" Monitors, Yamaha YST-SW205 and Sony SA-WM250 Powered Subwoofers, and additional speakers, in both matched and mismatched setups were used.

A Radio Shack Digital Sound Meter was used to calibrate speaker output levels.

Audio signal source components included: Samsung DVD-HD931 DVD Player and Helios X5000 DVD/Media Player, as well as a Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD player and a Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player.

CD-only Player sources included: Technics SL-PD888 and Denon DCM-370 5-disc CD Changers.

Connections between components were made with Accell, Cobalt, and AR Interconnect cables, as well as 16-gauge speaker wire all-around.

In addition, although not a factor in measuring speaker performance, the two video displays used in home theater setups were a Westinghouse Digital LVM-37w3 1080p LCD Monitor, and an Optoma H56 Video Projector

Setup - Software

HD-DVDs used included: Serenity, Phantom of the Opera, The Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, Swordfish, Blazing Saddles, and The Italian Job.

Blu-ray Discs used included: Into The Blue, Ultraviolet, XXX, Underworld Evolution, House of the Flying Daggers, and Stealth

DVDs included scenes from the following: Kill Bill - Vol1/2, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Hero, Master and Commander, Moulin Rouge, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, U571, and The Mummy,

Various CDs included: Heart - Dreamboat Annie, Nora Jones - Come Away With Me, Lisa Loeb - Firecracker and The Very Best of Lisa Loeb, Blue Man Group - The Complex, The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Ultimate Collection, Telarc - Eric Kunzel/The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra - 1812 Overture.

DTS-DVD (audio only) discs included: Queen - Night At The Opera/The Game, Eagles - Hotel California, Sheila Nicholls - Wake, Alan Parsons - On Air, Blue Man Group - The Complex, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood - Uninvisible. Also included: The Corrs - In Blue (Dolby Digital). In addition, music content on CD-R/RWs were also used.

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