"Before ARC, I had never heard a system with a subwoofer that had not been degraded in the crossover area."- Secrets of Home Theater, (Part 2)

We're going to assume you've already read Part 1 of the Secrets of Home Theater ARC review, brilliantly written by David Rich. If you haven't, you really should stop what you're doing, click the link above (blue text) and once read, come back and read on for Part 2. 

Part 1 of the review looked at ARC's firmware in the SSPs and AVRs which have a reduced filter bank size. Whereas Part 2 focused on adding a subwoofer to the mix using the full SSP version of ARC.

We cannot recommend enough that you read Part 2 of the review in full, but to get you started, here are the Coles Notes...

"Below I show my acoustic measurements for the complete system after all the equalizer filter coefficients, bass management filter settings, distance, and level correction have been downloaded to the Anthem D2 Pre/Pro. This plot highlights the remarkable success of the ARC system."

"...the ARC system is able to join main channels and a subwoofer seamlessly."

"Of the room correction systems I have tested, only the Anthem ARC has the ability to create the correct filter shapes for each channel correctly, with the corresponding flat total response curve." 

"Before the Anthem ARC, I had never heard a system with a subwoofer that had not been degraded in the crossover area."

"How many equipment reviewers who work in the domain of two-channel music systems are using subwoofers?  If these reviewers had access to an Anthem product with ARC, some minds might be changed."

Just like Part 1, the above summary doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the detail that David Rich has put into Part 2 of his ARC review. Click here! to read Part 2 of David's review entirely.

ARC can be purchased from authorized Anthem dealers 

and is also included with the following products:

Anthem MRX 300

Anthem MRX 500

Anthem MRX 700

Anthem AVM 50v 3D

Anthem Statement D2v 3D

 

To find your local authorized Anthem dealer, click here!

"Among the numerous room correction systems ... I have tested, ARC currently stands out as the best" - Secrets of Home Theater ARC review: Part 1

It has been a few years in the making but alas, it's here... 
David Rich of Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity has published Part 1 of his intensive Anthem Room Correction (ARC) review and we are ecstatic with his findings! 

This is by far the most thorough analysis of a room correction system we have ever seen. So whether you're an audiophile or an audio enthusiast, this is a read you can appreciate.

For a sneak preview, here are a few snippets from the review that we are happy to brag about...

 "Among the numerous room correction systems (automatically adjusts speaker delay, frequency response, and loudness, with respect to the listening position) I have tested, the Anthem ARC currently stands out as the best for consumers." 

"I never saw any sign of the system failing to produce a good solution for correcting the room and speaker aberrations."

"My room measurement system, which offers many more measurement functions than just the plots above, is about $600. For less than twice the price, Anthem gives you the ability to make accurate frequency response plots, provides the hardware to do the real time room correction, and tosses in a completely functional AVR."

"The three curves are text book examples of how an electrical room correction should work. This is the best result I have seen."

"I also listened to numerous other speakers, full range, and found the result ... to be the best I have achieved using an electrical room correction system."

"My room measurement system, which offers many more measurement functions than just the plots above, is about $600. For less than twice the price, Anthem gives you the ability to make accurate frequency response plots, provides the hardware to do the real time room correction, and tosses in a completely functional AVR."

"It is impossible for you to understand the depth of the intellectual property Anthem has amassed over the years of this system's development to produce this result, not just for this example but with other speakers in different sized rooms."

The above summary doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the depth that David Rich has gone into in Part 1 of his ARC review.  

Click here! to read Part 1 of David's review entirely.

ARC can be purchased from authorized Anthem dealers 

and is also included with the following products:

Anthem MRX 300

Anthem MRX 500

Anthem MRX 700

Anthem AVM 50v 3D

Anthem Statement D2v 3D

 

To find your local authorized Anthem dealer, click here!

Stay tuned for Part 2 of David's ARC review, coming soon! 

Anthem wins "Best Home Theater Receiver Brand" in About.com Readers' Choice Awards 2013!

It's official! The votes were cast, tallied and as a result About.com named Anthem, "Best Home Theater Receiver Brand" for 2013, as voted by About.com readers and you - our beloved fans and MRX customers from every corner of the world.

Now in its fifth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers.

From all of us at Anthem, thank you! 
It is an absolute honor.

Click here! to view the 2013 Readers’ Choice Award winners.

Anthem's M1 named one of the "Best Affordable, Hi-Tech, Hi-Fi Products on the Market Today"

In his monthly column, Doug Schneider of SoundStage! Network, recently published an editorial piece called: Original thinking: Five of the Best Affordable, Hi-Tech, Hi-Fi Products on the Market Today.

Inspired by affordable hi-tech hi-fi -- products that push the technical envelope but don’t cost more than the common man or woman can afford.... and of those five products, our M1 amplifier was one of them.

"I can understand people having trouble making sense of the Anthem Statement M1 -- it’s a completely different type of power-amp animal... a whopping 1000W into 8 ohms -- or a continuous 2000W into 4 ohms if fed 240V AC -- which makes it the most powerful high-end amplifier I know of anywhere near its price."

"The M1’s case, which is only 2.25” high, is home to quite a few technical innovations, but probably the most important thing to highlight here is the circuitry’s class-D architecture. Not an off-the-shelf module... it’s Anthem’s own design. Because it runs in cool class-D and has an innovative ventilation pipe, it generates little heat."

"Bascom King, of BHK Labs, measured a review sample for us, and it not only met its power specs, it exceeded them by a good margin. As for the sound, or lack thereof, Jeff Fritz had this to say in his February 1 Ultra Audio review:

“The sound was clean and clear, but not scrubbed to the point that it ever sounded threadbare or lacking in tonal density. In that sense, the Anthem Statement M1 approached the theoretical ideal of the straight wire with gain. . . . [The pair of them] played it straight by simply amplifying the signal.”

-- Jeff Fritz, Ultra Audio

"More power than any audiophile will ever need, neutrality that rivals the best amps out there, a low profile, putting out so little heat that it can be discreetly placed anywhere, and a price that makes sense, all combine to make the radical M1 a true statement in modern amplifier design."

 Click here! to read about all five products in Doug's column.

Click here! for more information on the Anthem Statement M1.