Z Review PowerSoundAudio MT-110 (Murica, F-Yeah) (Patreon)

Z Review PowerSoundAudio MT-110 (Murica, F-Yeah)

[http://www.powersoundaudio.com/] Home Page [https://youtu.be/7uhGIXovcmw] Sound Demo [Soon] Subwoofer Review Buying American is difficult. Buying American made speakers is extra difficult and finding one that performs as well as the PSA MT-110 and doesn't force you to re-mortgage your home in the process is like finding a white rhino roaming the local parks of Great Neck Long Island (aka pretty rare). New start-ups always have a hard time getting a footing especially in a marketplace like audio. Hundreds of companies exist that will grow, fade away and be reborn without any of you knowing or hearing about them. Well PSA (Power Sound Audio) don't want to remain in the shadows. One of the founders (Tom Vodhanel) knows a bit about founding a small audio company and building its reputation beyond reproach. He is the "V" in SVS, probably one of the most respected subwoofer manufacturers ever to exist, but Tom left. He thought he could do better. Building American is one principle only a startup can have. Designing and building products that don't have to pass committee authorization and get approved by aesthetics consultants. PSA makes things where function dominates form. The WAF may be low but the end results of this approach has a strange way of convincing many an enthusiast to throw that monkey wrench straight in the smooth running machine that was their marriage. These speakers and subs by their very nature seem dead set of expanding the territory of the "Man Cave" to encompass anyplace the music can be heard (aka the master bath, den, study, kitchen, attic, front yard and even the neighbors living room). Never before has a speaker existed that I did not fear hurting. Maybe I watched "The Brave Little Toaster" a few too many times as a kid because I legitimately get scared that my electronics are in pain most times (and party while I am asleep). Every speaker, sub, amp, headphone, car has a limit. You can usually find that limit rather quickly with a clockwise turn of the wrist, but not here. These speakers (and subs) seem to have no limit I can reach. At least not while being in the room. I now fear hurting myself, my ears, and my nearby relations instead of the speakers themselves. Sheer world ending volume however is not the crescendo of the PSA line. What they do at all volumes is the selling point. "Tea time with Grandma" can ramp up to "Superbowl Sunday Ambiance" and then out of nowhere up to "What are all those flashing red and blue lights?". Anyone can make a loud speakers, it's making a LOUD speaker that performs at all levels and when you push it past "all levels" to "ear bleeding FFFFFF" and it still sounds incredible and clean and tight. That is the hard part. With the MT-110's on their own Sound stage is abundant and well focused, vocals are tonally correct at every volume, midrange is smooth and mid-bass is punchy (punchy as hell). Their probably best when used off-axis and at a distance as the horn tweeter responds with more space between it and the listener. The sub 80hz range is the only thing you don't get on these and for obvious design reasons. You simply can't make a speaker as loud and clear as the PSA and retain a bass note coming from the speaker itself, not without it becoming the size of a refrigerator. In a 2.1 or 5.1 or 7.1 etc, the sub will remand those frequencies and (if a PSA sub) put out the correct, matching levels all the way up the scale. At 35lbs a piece, these black only boxes covered in what seems to be a rougher, hardened version of pickup truck bed liner and containing only sharp, un-rounded corners will not be winning many design awards. (Not for aesthetics at least). This is probably the result of making them here in America. We as a nation are a bit out of practice and doing cheap and pretty is a long ways off. If Fair wages, health insurance and hot dog lunches are the things I am paying a premium for then so be it. The mean, stark, hardened surface becomes something to be proud of. I don't need a laser-cut cherry veneer put on an architecturally designed enclosure by an underpaid worker in another hemisphere to find something beautiful. That said the cloth grills with their semi-oval do improve the immediate visuals and might even trick someone into thinking these are normal speakers. Let them stay fooled, right up until the point in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex escapes. Then that cloth facade will count for nothing. Here are the Martin Logan subs I used with them [http://amzn.to/1IVCrAG] Here is the 5.1 amp I would power these with [http://amzn.to/1ApBQ7R]