WhatHiFi unveils Monitor Audios Silver RX

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Originally Posted by JasonR

I am sure you were listening the the RS series, these are yet to be released. I am surprised about your impressions on the bass response. That is one of their selling points, it is quite impressive. Almost every review you read mentions it as a matter of fact....

Originally Posted by aramis109

Were you listening to it at Flanner's? I listened to the same set when I got my Deftechs. It's the same speakers that Jason has now- the previous model. I found the bass to be fine on them, but like you mentioned they're using an iPod through a Yamaha receiver (there's also a setup with the McIntosh amp, but I'm not sure if they had it hooked up or not). Those Rx's sure are beautiful.

As a matter of fact it was at Flanners (and with an Integra AV Receiver). Dont get me wrong, the sound was VERY clean and clear and when the salesman switched between speakers as he went up the line, each model got better than the one before. Imaging and soundstage was great and I enjoyed the demo. I think the weaker bass had more to do with the fact that the music was played through an AVR than a weakness with the speakers themselves. I imagine they sound fantastic through a dedicated 2-channel system. And maybe it's just me but I've never enjoyed stereo music through an AVR even when setup properly... I'm not sure why. It seems to me when I try on mine, even with the dvd player set to stereo and the receiver set to stereo with the subwoofer set to "none", the AVR doesnt send the full signal to the fronts... it seems to not want to send the lower bass (crossover set to <80Hz?) to my fronts which can more than handle that. But... sorry for hijacking the thread... the Monitor Audios were beautiful and would be a definate upgrade to my Home Theater!!!