BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS

@elliottbnewcombjr I have had a chance to plug this in and it is indeed a very cool piece of equipment - low level listening (from streaming) sounds really, really great. Most of my streaming listening is done at lower volume, I just don't use it to actively listen. 

The problem for me is switching to vinyl. There is a ton of added noise. I added a grounding cable (I never had to use one in the past) and that mitigated it a little, but not nearly enough for me to live with it. I even tried connecting the phono pre out directly to the RLC-1 and it was worse than when the phono was connected to my ARC preamp.  I'm going to try playing with the location of my phono preamp to see if that makes any difference, but otherwise I confess I'm a bit of a sad panda because the concept is so cool.

I have no idea what or why you are getting noise, I have never had any situation with any of my RLC-1, anywhere in any system, there must be a way to avoid it.

Previously, how was your vinyl set up? Re-create that, Chase out, still noise free?

IOW, perhaps moving something, something else happened, another connection got moved .....

Out of nowhere, I used to get problems that turned out to be the very worn and slightly undersized rca jacks of my McIntosh MX110z tube tuner/preamp. I’d work on the CD cables, and the tape player’s cable at the other end would be moved inadvertently. That’s when I changed to Locking RCA connectors,

When Audio Classics went over it, they routinely changed all the MX110z’s RCA jack panels to new gold plated ones, so glad they did.

There is no reason not to use it for normal or higher volumes, still get it's remote features: once it gets back up to it's default volume or higher, no signal modification is happening.

And, the two sets of rca outputs 'front' and 'rear' are identical, it is from the weird days of early quad, no processing, where they just put 4 speakers in a room with a front/rear fader. 

Don't expect the speaker alone to be good at low listening levels. That is also a trait of your amplifier and preamp/linestage. If they do not  BOTH have good low level abilities, it won't happen. Most electrostatics and ribbons fare pretty well at lower volumes.

Does your amp work well at quieter volumes?