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BENICIA, CALIF. - NHT says it will change with the times.
By next January, the company hopes to replace the rest of its non-custom speaker selection to complement this month's shipment of the new Super Audio line. When the changeover is complete, NHT will have pared its selection to about 18 models, split between two series with less price-point overlap than in the company's current line-- up. The current selection of about 30 models is divided into three series.
The company will also reduce its selection of towers to about three from about seven and make its next speakers more stylish and less angular. In addition, new woofer technologies in the next round of speakers will cut cabinet volume and thus trim NHT-hallmark cabinet depths, which in some cases run 2 to 3 feet to allow for narrow front baffles while delivering deep bass, said VP/GM Chris Byrne.
In perhaps the biggest change in NHT's philosophy, the company will no longer offer one series of home theater speakers and a separate series for music listeners. For its January launches, the company will "develop speakers for [use with] all sources," Byrne said. The company currently offers the Home Theater series, Music series and Super Audio series (which replaces the Performance series).
Current Home Theater series towers feature a video mode that bumps up the bass and activates reduced-level rear drivers to increase spaciousness and slightly blur the image. In marketing the...