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The totally bearable lightness of being a Mythos

“They will eat for lunch just about any other system in the price range”

BY DARRYL WILKINSON

So I was chatting with Paris

Hilton the other day about some arcane aspect of cosmic string theory (OK , all aspects of cosmic string theory are arcane to me)

when it suddenly hit me: The slen- der, silvery beauty of Definitive Tech- nology’s Mythos speakers might actually be a draw- back. I was so disturbed by this realization that, using ancient Latin with such elo- quence it would have brought tears to Cicero’s eyes, I cancelled our date to go shopping for the latest opera releases on SACD, returned the new issue of Foreign Affairs that I’d borrowed from her, and headed

home to drink a seaweed-and-algae smoothie while meditating on the problem.

There’s simply no doubt about it. The Mythos speakers that Def Tech sent me for review–floorstanding Mythos Fours for the mains, a

Mythos Three for the center, and

apair of never-before-seen-by normal-humans Mythos Gems for the surrounds, plus a SuperCube II subwoofer–were drop-dead gorgeous. I’m talking stunning, can’t get-them-out-of-your-mind, wouldn’t-kick-them-out-of-bed-for- eating-Limburger-cheese-and Wassa- crispbread gorgeous.

“perfectly propor- tioned ... built to appease the gods of great sound and stylish décor”

The Mythos Four exudes class and style as it presses upward from its elegant glass base. It soars toward the ceiling like a refined cathedral spire built to appease the gods of great sound and stylish décor. The sylphlike horizontal Mythos Three rested lightly atop my TV, looking for all of the world as if it were only temporarily reclining and might, at any moment, choose to soar upward, as well. The Mythos Gems, about as perfectly