Teufel Theatre 200

Teufel Theatre 200 review

Teufel's Theater 200 system follows in the heritage of its Theatre 2 system, which first appeared in the mid-1990s and is described as 'legendary' by, er, the company's own website. So it has a lot to live up to. It's a cute 5.1 system, which can easily be expanded to a 7.1, 9.1 or 11.1 package, if you want. Changes over the original Theater 2 speakers include new drivers and rare earth neodymium magnet technology, and an optimised design. The front three speakers use what the maker describes as staggered tweeters (otherwise know as 'time aligned'), meaning they are set back from the main low-frequency drivers. Indeed, with the T 200 C centre cabinet, the tweeter is mounted in a housing on top of the main enclosure for all to see and touch, including inquisitive young children; the two T 200 F front speakers mount the tweeters on the baffle, set back from the plane of the main drivers. The effect is similar in the two cases, which is that when heard at ear height in a normally adjusted system, the path is the same from the drivers in each speaker to the ear, giving a more focused and more consistent soundfield and better stereo imaging. The T 100 D rear speakers work in a different way acoustically. Although the drive units seem related to those of the fronts, they're clearly different in detail, not least because they're not the same size.