Sometime between 1989 and 1990, at the AT&T labs in Murray Hill, NJ, a scientist heard a song. That scientist, Karlheinz Brandenburg, was just your average, every day audio engineering genius who also happened to be working on the codec for a new digital music format.

Since its release last winter, the LS50W Active Music has set the audio world on fire with it goose-bump-inducing soundstage and sonic capabilities, but the LS50W is now an even more powerful and flexible active music system.