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TEST REPORT
P L U S
Outstanding multichannel performance.
Impressive bass, full-range dynamics.
Bipole/dipole-selectable surrounds.
Changeable side panels.
M I N U S
Big subwoofer.
Center-speaker base a little too high.
the left and slightly behind the front left
speaker.
The 4200 LR front speakers are true sat-
ellites, not intended for use without a sub-
woofer, so I began with plain stereo, but
with the subwoofer hooked up, too. What I
initially heard was a "close," dry sound
with a hint of male-voice chestiness — that
gave me a chance to start trying out those
C.O.R.E. controls.
A bit of experimentation told me that the
4200 LRs are sensitive to vertical place-
ment. I adjusted the stands so that their
tweeters were about even with my seated
ear height and switched on the Boundary
Compensation switches, since they stood
only 18 inches to either side of my TV. The
midrange became more open and relaxed,
4200 LR
(front L/R)
1-inch dome
TWEETER
two 5
1
⁄
-inch cones two 5
MIDRANGE
4
—
WOOFER
sealed
ENCLOSURE
—
POWER
gold-plated
INPUTS/
multiway binding
OUTPUTS
posts; Boundary
AND
Compensation
CONTROLS
and treble
switches
7
8 x 15 x 9
⁄
DIMENSIONS
8
(WxHxD)
inches
14 pounds
WEIGHT
maple, gloss
FINISH
black, or matte
silver side panels;
metal-screen grille
$930 a pair (plus
PRICE
Total: $3,500 in
side panels; $70
maple, $3,600 in
in maple, $105 in
black or silver
black or silver)
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MANUFACTURER
54 MAY 2004 SOUND & VISION
while the treble added significant air and
life to the mix. And that touch of "hoo"
caused by reflections from the screen dis-
appeared almost entirely.
The Atlantic Tech system punched out
multichannel music with finesse and im-
pressive impact. The DVD-Audio mix of
Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad solo album is
an amazingly pristine production in both
its recording and performance (almost an-
tiseptic), and the System 4200 showed its
virtues to a tee: preternatural clarity — es-
pecially noticeable on drums and guitars
— and huge dynamic range.
The System 4200 also proved to be one
of those speaker systems that sounds better
the louder you play it. I found myself lis-
tening to Fagen's "Snowbound" repeatedly
at ever-increasing volumes, reaching a lev-
el that audibly sweated the front-speaker
trio some 10 dB above THX reference lev-
el — and that's loud.
One advantage of a system that's prop-
erly designed as a sub/sat layout from the
ground up is that you don't have to fuss
fast facts
4200 C
4200 SR
(center)
(surround)
1-inch dome
two 1-inch domes
1
⁄
-inch cones two 4
1
⁄
-inch cones
4
2
—
—
sealed
sealed
—
—
gold-plated
gold-plated
multiway binding
multiway binding
posts; Boundary
posts; Bipole/
Compensation
Dipole switch
and treble
switches
1
1
3
18
⁄
x 8
⁄
x 8
11 x 12
⁄
x 7
2
2
8
inches
inches
16 pounds
11 pounds
maple, gloss
black or white;
black, or matte
metal-screen grille
silver side panels;
metal-screen grille
$550 (plus side
$900 a pair
panels; $50 in
maple, $75 in
black or silver)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets could have been designed as
a home theater demo disc, and the
Atlantic Technology System 4200 met
every wizardly challenge.
with crossover and level settings. I set the
642 SB subwoofer's Lowpass switch to
Bypass, skipping its onboard crossover in
favor of my preamp/processor's, which I
set to 80 Hz. After I balanced levels, the
system sounded perfectly integrated. The
languid, but incredibly solid bass on "Snow-
bound" was deliciously rich and punchy,
yet with the superb definition and "quick-
ness" that only an excellent sub and an ex-
pertly matched sub/sat system can achieve.
The Fagen DVD also provided perfect
test material for comparing the 4200 SR's
bipole and dipole modes. The verdict: bi-
642 SB
(subwoofer)
pole wins. I still prefer dipole surrounds for
movie sound and naturalistically recorded
—
music, but with mixes that put discrete ma-
—
terial in the surround channels — like a
12-inch cone
hand-percussion shaker in the right rear —
bipole clearly sounded better.
sealed
With this musical introduction, I expect-
300 watts
ed nothing short of great movie sound
from the System 4200, and I wasn't disap-
RCA line-level I/O;
level, low-pass
pointed. Playback was about as seamlessly
controls; normal/
integrated, solidly spatial, and colorful and
bypass, phase-
invert, and auto-
dynamic as I could want.
power switches
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Se-
3
1
⁄
19 x 21 x 18
⁄
4
2
crets is a first-rate 5.1-channel production
inches
with just about every surround sound vir-
65 pounds
tue. Through the sequence of the flying car
catching up to the train, I was struck by
maple, gloss
black, or matte
how little the timbre of the engine's pop-
silver side panels;
pop-popping changed as it swooped from
black cloth grille
channel to channel and position to posi-
$920 (plus side
tion. The quidditch match a bit later might
panels; $80 in
maple, $120 in
as well have been designed as a home the-
black or silver)
ater demo: the whizzing balls and brooms,
crashes and impacts were all spectacularly
present and three-dimensional. And in the
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