Great speaker sounds terrible in my room?

Good to hear you did decouple. The way they are made you did the best thing you could to actually make a music sub. REL is old tech with great paint. I've fixed quite a few VMPS and REL subs for music.. Boom Boom is easy. Audiophile is a little tougher.. I secure a butt plate and add, springs, pods or air ride. I've used all with great success. Air bags decouple the most complete, they can be a PITA if not thought out.. I used a 10 and 15" bicycle tire tube under 2 400lb columns. worked perfect for 15 years.. You could tell when they needed air. Once a year two pumps each. 

Nobound with ear plugs stuffed in the springs does ok.... :-) Get the black ones, they don't stand out like a sore thumb..

I'm only in to ugly women, my gear has to look really good. Easier maintenance for both to tell the truth. :-)

Regards

@oldhvymec 

Retiring soon brother and leaving this God forsaken state. a dedicated listening room is in my plans and down the audiophile rabbit hole I will go. Might even do the ugly chick thing too…Haha! 

Rooms are the worst offenders in audio systems.  Cheap to fix, but most people don't want to bother.

I did not read everyone's comments but the one where you are asking why would the amp/preamp be an issue.  They don't always match that is why.  Kind of like a recent speaker a manufacturer sent to us.  We build components but the speakers we received were not tube friendly at all.  So we had to change things around to get them to perform the way they were supposed to.  Some speakers prefer some feedback and some don't that is just the way things go.

Happy Listening.

I was curious, so I tried to find some feedback from other owners and this is some of what I found.

"I have decided to sell my Ref 3A Royal Virtuosos as I don't think they quite match my room positioning and I'm not hearing the best from them."

"I have recently obtained a used pair of Royal Virtuosos (full Corian cabinet) with very heavy Sound Anchors stands. The problem is that there is no bass. Drums and acoustic bass are almost completely missing and there is almost nothing below 100 Hz. I have tried both my Welbone 300B amp and a Linn solid state amp, it makes no difference. My source is a new Denon DVD player. The tone in the midrange and treble seems good and the imaging is amazing."

"Hi, A friend of mine had this problem with a pair of the Reference3A L'integra and we went nuts trying to fix it. We finally discovered that the speakers were wired out of phase internally, so we just switched the speaker cables black to red and red to black on only one speaker and that solved the problem! Hope it's something as simple as this."     

It's not much, but it does confirm your experiences somewhat.

There was also one comment about the speakers, saying they weren't sold through dealers, but were sold by "owners". Which I found odd.