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Above: Measurements published by Audio Ideas Guide of Silver8i

It took some digging but I have located the review published in the June 99 issue of Home Theater Magazine. I goofed. The measurements are the original Monitor Series not the "i" series revision. The mag measures a complete system consisting of the Silver 5, 3 and Center and each one displays the high treble peak (10kHz-16kHz). I checked the Home Theater web-site but this review is old and does not appear in their archives (2001-2003).

http://www.hometheatermag.com/

The good news is that the 8i does not display the high frequency peak. I found on-line measurements of the Silver 8i courtesy of Audio Ideas Guide. The bad news concerns the location of the frequency peak. It occurs in the upper-midrange, which measures 3-4dB higher than the treble (look at the second un-smoothed curve). This peak is not as severe in amplitude as the higher frequency peak of the original Silver series. Yet it falls in a frequency band (the upper mid-range) at which hearing sensitiviy is far greater than the high treble. The 3dB peak will be audible and difficult to treat in the manner I outlined (absorptive ring around tweeter, tube amp etc.). For one thing the peak is not a tweeter problem at all but occurs at the top of the mid-woofers' passband. The best thing to do is to sit off-axis of this model, where the peak will be somewhat depressed.


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