Thank you sir for taking the time to read my thought and for sharing yours.
Exact MSRP for the new RBH SV61/R Speakers ( Pair ) is $1899.95
If you are to read, here are some thoughts I just couldn't stop working on tonight. Sort of my RBH journey. I know I missed some things but it's where my heart and ears are about the people and the speakers.
I will get more picture as I am able - God Bless and have a perfect sounding day
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Throughout my youth I listened to rock & roll music at the most extreme levels that I was able to achieve at all times, meaning whatever was the best my money would allow me to attain in audio equipment would be tested and pushed to it's limits of bending the undistorted sound line as far as possible. This carried on until around age 35 or so and I eventually began to enjoy the *sound* as much as, if not more than the music. Of course by then it took its toll and I ended up with tinnitus, I have a ringing in my ears 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
I have gone through a ton of speaker styles and more speaker manufacturers that I can count. There have been many speakers that I loved and thought sounded wonderful but all of them after a very short time of any type of excessive volume, my ears would begin to hurt and I would become fatigued from listening, very disheartening - BUT as lovers of sound and music ( Audioholics ) we must carry on, just no choice.
After literally months and months of research, looking into answers of best sound, best price, best build, least fatiguing, and many other character traits I was seeking to find the best of, I started buying rbh products. I will admit, my first purchase leaned a tiny bit more towards beauty and style than all the rest of my speaker needs. I started my RBH journey with EMP, of course owned and all designed by RBH but some of this starter equipment was built outside the US. I started with the EMP E55Ti Towers because of the beauty, cost and reviews, I began to notice that I was able to listen to music longer at higher levels without my ear ringing being exacerbated. I quickly became very attached to rbh.
Brian Tracy, RBH's regional sales manager, a completely amazing representative and who turned out to be an all around wonderful and caring human being, suggested I started moving up the ladder as money would allow and said that the things I was loving so much about RBH was only going to get better and better with each step.
I first moved to the SV6500 Towers and just let me say ( Damn! ) I know I am no poet and no professional writer so I could never *write* them the justice they deserve but I can say with a powerful degree of certainty, that while taking all of the usual factors of choosing a great speaker into the equation, I believe you just would be hard pressed to find better.
Next to bookshelf, now I knew as with most bookshelf speakers , we get that * More Spacious * soundstage, so, I stepped next to the SV61 bookshelfs and it was love right out of the box situation.
I wrote Brian, telling him of my kid-like excitement to the magic speakers and added that if the standard signature SV sound was this amazing, that I couldn't even imagine what the reference series would sound like. His response was a very clear, your gonna love them.
Money was a bit tight and I'm not one to wait much, so I got a deal on last years SX61/Rs being almost identical in sound, just very slight change in cabinet design and of course that SV Gorgeous Gallery Quality Gloss Rosewood embrace. I have literally been in Audio Nirvana from the first second they began to present to me, my private live concert of Norah Jones. Pinpoint accuracy, 3D Depth, round, beautiful, detailed soundstage and no fatigue at all. Heaven.
Points worth mention or repeating:
1 - Tweeters used are the insanely popular Scan-Speak9500
2 - Midrange - designed & built by RBH & Exclusive to RBH, their own RBH-165-FPN Cast Aluminum
3 - Woofers - Also designed & built by RBH & Exclusive to RBH is their own RBH ALU200-IDCN Cast Aluminum
3 - True, Active Bi-Amping Capability
4 - Intuitive and attractive Inverted dust-caps on regular Signature SV & SX series
5 - RBH Phase plugs on Reference Models
6 - Curved cabinets to reduce resonance
7 - Coming Standard - Gallery Quality Hi-Gloss South African Rosewood or Hi Gloss Black
8 - Both modular and single cabinet designs
9 - Company started and still owned by it's original founder - some love never dies, only grows
10 - RBH was born in 1978, originally designing and building the OEM speakers that companies such as Mcintosh, Fosgate, Parasound and JBL used in their units, so you've most likely feel in love with RBH before you ever knew their name
To me, Jay Morgan of Morgan Audio who now is an authorized dealer for RBH and RBH Only, this company, all it represents, all it designs, builds and allows us the public to share is one of the best examples of A High End Speaker Company with Integrity that stays above all in every aspect of it's business.
