Definitive Technology BP9080x Speaker System Review

Definitive Technology’s monolithic bipolar towers —which launched the brand in 1990—have been around in one form or another almost as long as that thing in 2001: A Space Odyssey. With the fourth generation bowing recently, the Baltimore-area manufacturer set us up with a full suite: BP9080x fronts, CS9080 center, a pair of smallerbut-still-huge BP9060 towers for surrounds, and the A90 elevation speakers (Dolby Atmos-enabled and compatible with DTS:X) to go on top of those surrounds; the marquee BP9080x fronts have the same elevation componentry to bounce height-channel signals off the ceiling built right into their top 5 inches. All except the A90 are powered-woofer designs, with side-firing (up-firing in the case of the CS9080) woofer/passiveradiator arrangements driven by onboard amplifiers, and so they need to be connected to wall power as well as to speaker outputs for their passive mid- and high-frequency sections. (Full disclosure: Our BP9080x pair was marked “engineering sample.” We generally insist on production-run speakers, but such was not available in time for this issue. We were assured our towers were exemplars of initial production in every detail.)

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