Finding the perfect surround sound system can be tricky business. Get an inferior one and you’ll find yourself struggling to understand dialogue in a movie as the background noise overpowers it. Hearing the car whiz by is fun, but what did that guy just say? That’s frustrating enough to turn it off and just use the TV speakers. But there’s a solution—the Ascend Acoustics CMT-340 SE/CBM-170 SE surround sound system that combines award-winning components for dazzling results. This “Best Of” is a dynamic, high performance 5.1 system that compares well with any of the big boys on the market. A pair of CMT-340 SE bookshelf speakers, CMT-340 SE center-channel speaker and two CBM-170 SE surround speakers delivers articulate, detailed sound with both movies and music. It’s the quality construction and attention to detail that distinguishes Ascend systems, like the 5-way binding posts of gold-plated brass, advanced, biwirable crossover with gold-plated jumpers and flush-mounted drivers and grille mounts to reduce diffraction and baffle reflections. This is a high-end system without the extravagant price.

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