Upgrade or sell Infinity RSIIb speakers


I'm wondering if someone can help? I have the aforementioned speakers in apparently excellent condition. I haven't listened to them for about 3 years, but I will likely be able to set up a dedicated listening room next year. In anticipation of this, I started research in upgrading the wiring and active and passive x-overs of this set to maximize their capabilities. I've been told by a well respected, and seemingly very technicaly knowledgable, reviewer that I should get rid of my speakers because of their "design that just doesn't work well" and get a pair of time/phase accurate speakers like Vandersteens or Dunlavys. Now if money were no object, I would do so, but I would like a concensus, if I could get one, on what I should do. I was also planning on getting the TacT room correction unit as well. Might this unit not correct the time/phase inaccuracies of a speaker as well?

Sorry for the long post and thanks if you can help me out!
mikes

Showing 1 response by beemer

Hey Mikes!

Keep your RSIIb's, biamp them with good tube amp of 100W+ per channel up top, and a stout solid state high current amp on the bottom.

Tell the reviewer to pound sand! You've got a great speaker. I had and enjoyed RSIIb's myself for many years, and still have and use RS1x and IRS Beta today.

If you've never biamped with good tubes up top and a quality frontend, you don't know what you are missing. Last but not least, in order to signifigantly better these classic will require more than you may care to spend!

Improve your sources/cables. This will go a long way too!

Paul