It isn't often that one finds a speaker this good at any price, much less at under $2600 per pair. The new Nucleus Reference 3 speakers from Anthony Gallo Acoustics are clearly the most remarkable new speaker to arrive on the scene in many years. As you can see from the pictures, the internal construction is very unusual, utilizing a free-air, minimum baffle design with midrange and woofer drivers mounted in round, aluminum enclosures which are acoustically dead and which minimize diffraction and reflection artifacts. The tweeter is made from a thin sheet of Kynar polymer which is coated with silver and formed into a cylindrical shape that yields 300 degrees of horizontal dispersion. There's lots more to talk about regarding the technical details of this speaker, but the important part is the sound. It's so open, clear , spacious, and involving that it's going to set new standards in its price range. In fact, it just received a rave review in the October/November 2004 issue of The Absolute Sound that couldn't have been better if Anthony Gallo had written it himself! For example, the review said, "...a landmark product whose performance will blow minds throughout the high-end audio community, recalibrating upwards our notion of what a $2600/pair of loudspeakers can be and do..."

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