Didn’t want to add a sub to my two channel music system. I’m a real audiophile I thought. I like tubes and english loudspeakers I thought. I wear tweed and smoke a pipe I thought (not really). I’m not one of these home theater pagans who buy their equipment at big box stores - no, I’m a serious audiophile, I thought, who would rather poo poo such things and talk about room treatments and exotic cables and what kind of distilled water I should wash my vinyl LPs in. Besides, I don’t need no bass to prove my masculinity.
Then I inserted an REL S/5 SHO (hooked up at the high level connection with Kimber cables made for the REL) and OOOPs. I’ve been missing out, a lot. All of a sudden live albums came truly alive. Sure there was tight deep bass and the REL didn’t call attention to itself. What was the real shocker was what it did to the midrange and the soundstage of the overall system. Listening to live albums I was moved in to the concert hall with excellent seats - I was no longer sitting in my music room. Performances came alive. Try an REL, you’ll be shocked (in a good way). Then complain to me about the cost of the REL after you’ve dropped a couple of grand on StillPoints made out of unobtanium.
Then I inserted an REL S/5 SHO (hooked up at the high level connection with Kimber cables made for the REL) and OOOPs. I’ve been missing out, a lot. All of a sudden live albums came truly alive. Sure there was tight deep bass and the REL didn’t call attention to itself. What was the real shocker was what it did to the midrange and the soundstage of the overall system. Listening to live albums I was moved in to the concert hall with excellent seats - I was no longer sitting in my music room. Performances came alive. Try an REL, you’ll be shocked (in a good way). Then complain to me about the cost of the REL after you’ve dropped a couple of grand on StillPoints made out of unobtanium.