REGA RS7/R7
see R7 review in STEREOTIMES #25
in http://www.stereotimes.com/speak022306.shtml
pertinent extracts:
" ...Like many speakers built for UK and European listening rooms, the R7s can be placed near a rear wall without exaggerating the bass response..."
" ... 34-years experience in the audio world have taught me that the most common system building error is mismatching the speaker to the room. Place a mini-monitor in too large a room and you get the bass-shy squawk box syndrome. Far more common in the US is buying a speaker whose bass response is more than the room can handle, resulting in various manifestations of boom, thud, and rhinocerine mud-wallowing. Its more than a simple matter of room dimensions and overall volume: wall and floor construction also play a crucial role. Its been my general experience that if you can get clear and tight response down to 40 Hz in-room, stop and count your blessings. And think very hard about pursuing response into the bottom octave. One is more likely to screw up everything achieved in the musically useful range of 40 Hz and above. While my own reference speaker, the Sound Lab Dynastat, is flat to 20 Hz in my large basement listening room, the number of times Ive absolutely needed that bottom octave for musical reasons in the last two years is zero. While the lowest range of the organ might be majestic in a large cathedral, mismatched bass-heavy speakers that literally shake the house on its foundations are more likely to induce vertigo and viscera displacement than aesthetic satisfaction. So how do you walk the line between bass-shy mini-monitors and elephantine bass heaviness in the normal room? Enter the new Rega R7 loudspeaker...."
