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In Reply to: What to look for in a used HPM 100 posted by sanman on April 16, 2007 at 17:27:42:
They are walnut veneer, so many scratches can be gently sanded out. The HPM supertweeter is a ribbon type thing, and I'm not sure the VOM multimeter can really measure them. My HPM-900 crosses over at 15K Hz, so I'm not really sure LOL that I actually know they're reproducing sound. The tweeter is excellent, though.
The bass is solid, and musical. The mythology is that Bart Locanthi, who was a lead designer of the JBL L100, was hired by Pioneer to create the HPM series. The HPM-100 was meant to be a "super L100" better in all respects. This implies a forward, "west coast" sound. The midbass and midrange is well reproduced, and I don't find it obnoxious at all.
I will say I believe the follow-up series are a more balanced, finer sounding group of speaker systems. I wish the HPM-900 was walnut veneered, though, and not vinyl wrapped. C'est la vie.
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Follow-up series to the HPM100? Which would that be? Thanks.
That would be the HPM-900.
The others were the HPM-500, 700, and 1500.
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