Went Speaker Shopping

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I finally decided to go speaker shopping to get an idea of what I may want. Reading different reviews I wasn’t sure what I wanted, because you should listen for yourself to get what you really like.

I made three stops and each place had a particular brand to sell. First stop I listen to Monitor Audio and I wanted to hear the RS series. They had the RS and the RX series in and I was able to hear both. I was kinda thinking it may not be that much of a difference between them and hopefully I could get the RS set at a nice price, but NOOOO!!!!

The RS8 sounded really nice, but then he switched to the RX and it was NIGHT and DAY and truly unbelievable sounding from the RX compared to the RS. I knew at that point I wanted the RX and nothing else, I didn’t care about saving the difference from getting an older RS.

We talked about two different packages:

(2) RX-2’s
(2) RX-FX pair, for 7.0
(1) RX-Center

Or

(2) RX-8
(2) RX-FX pair, for 7.0
(1) RX-Center

Price difference between the two were $860.00

I am more into movies and I was really thinking about the first set.

I was asked to come back today around 6 to talk with some rep’s from Monitor Audio, they flew in to train the people on the new GX series.

Went to another place and they had PSB T-65, I was told that model is being discontinued and I could get a fantastic price from the demo they had. The demo’s were much more then the new RX series, so that is out the door.

I stop at a third place just to see what they had, I was pretty much sold on the RX, but wanted to give something else a listen.

I listen to the B&W

(2) 683 fronts
(2) 686 for the rears to make a 7.0
(1) HTM61 center

I liked them a lot and sounded fantastic. I asked the salesman how much just to get a silly idea of what it would cost more then the RX series. To my surprise The B&W’s were only $3.71 more(that’s not a typo).

I’m going to do some research to see if I can find the RX cheaper, if not I will be getting the B&W’s