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16 THE AUDIO CRITIC
Floor-Standing 4-Way
Speaker with Powered
Subwoofer
Infinity
“Intermezzo” 4.1t
Infinity Systems, Inc., a Harman Interna-
tional Company, 250 Crossways Park
Drive, Woodbury, NY 11797. Voice: (800)
553-3332. Fax: (516) 682-3523. Web:
www.infinitysystems.com. Intermezzo 4.1t
floor-standing 4-way loudspeaker system
with built-in powered subwoofer. $7000.00
the pair. Tested samples on loan from man-
ufacturer.
Editor’s Note: I hasten to point out,
before the self-righteous element in the
audio community does, that Don Keele is
currently employed by Harman/Becker
Automotive Systems, which is owned by
the same parent company as Infinity Sys-
tems, namely Harman International.
Harman/Becker and Infinity are totally
independent of each other, without any
overlap; in fact, they are located 700 miles
apart—but they are connected via Sidney
Harman’s pocket. He, or more precisely his
company, owns a significant percentage of
the audio industry, so that any one of the
limited number of truly qualified audio
engineers (like Don Keele) has more than
a small chance of falling within his
purview. It can’t be helped. As I pointed
out in one of the earliest issues of
The
Audio Critic, in the late ’70s, the alter-
native is to use reviewers totally uncon-
nected to the audio industry, such as
audiophile dentists. O
ther magazines do
.
Unfortunately, said dentists don’t know the
difference between MLS and ETF, and
that matters to me more than our
reviewers’ affiliations. I can assure you, in
an event, that no one at the corporate of-
fices of H
arman International even knew
about this r
eview
, let alone influenced it.
Introduction
I
nter
mezz
o:
a shor
t musical mo
v
e
-
ment separating the major sections of
a lengthy composition or work; or
in-
termediate: one that is in a middle po-
sition or state. Both terms aptly