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I first auditioned these at a dealer, in response to positive comments in Goodsound.com. Not having the funds for a new pair, I found a used pair that I bought more than a year ago. This is a very refined speaker of its type. It has 3 distinguishing characteristics: (1) unusually great midrange transparency (not "lushness," but the ability to resolve detail), (2) very stable imaging over a relatively wide area (no tiny sweet spot, like speakers with first-order X-overs) and (3) a little lower bass than one would expect without artificial mid-bass emphasis to fool the gullible. Bass is adequate without a subwoofer for anything but organ music. A good "live" recording is reproduced with an uncanny sense of the recorded space, both laterally and front to back. With the bass port on the front panel, the speaker is not as sensitive to rear wall location as many. This speaker will not reproduce rock music at 100 dB levels as my daughter found out when she fried a woofer voice coil. (Jeff Joseph kindly replaced the driver free of charge, even though I wasn't the original owner.) However, it certainly plays anything loud enough, including R&R. In my 15 x 20 x 10 relatively dead room, it generates 90 dB SPL's as measured by my trusty Radio Shack meter without strain. In fact, I think the voice coil got fried because the speaker does not distort significantly, even when overloaded. This is a very, very nice speaker. I would consider replacing it only if I had room for a large, floor standing speaker.


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Topic - REVIEW: Joseph Audio RM-7 si signature Speakers Review by Bruce Beckner at Audio Asylum - Bruce Beckner 12:38:42 09/14/99 ( 4)