Need Advice on NEAR HT speaker set

We had a pair for demo in our showroom many years ago. That pair, and all the theater demos I heard at CES had a metallic metal ring to the top end. Unless you hear the system and like it, I would stay away from these.

Gunbei--Who falls and who advances here? NEAR was a great outfit based in New England. I trust flinty Yankees! But the business model was re-evaluated [my guess] after the sale to Bogen and today they make rocks. Really! Ugh.

Now NHT is also NE-based and look at them now. A great company advancing the design and manufacture of great speakers. Think they listened to their customers? You think they look at mag reviews? Only their hairdressers know for sure.

BTW, very nice rig you have there.

I had a pair of NEAR 50Me II's and loved them at the time. It's my understanding that Bogen was only interested in the NEAR models with commercial application and made the decision to nix the rest of the NEAR line.

Tripper,

"NEAR...make rocks" and "flinty Yankees", LOL.

Actually, my first set of SuperZeros was purchased in 1995, and the SuperOnes rounded out the 5.1 system in 1998, so I guess my speaker line up is sort of middle to late stone age NHT, heheh.

They were still in California in those days. To be honest, I have not heard any of their newer speakers, but a local NHT dealer told me they thought the lower former "Super" line was improved on, but that the higher line [formerly 3.3, 2.9, VT, etc.] had taken a step back. I also still have an original SW3P/SA3 powered subwoofer.

Thanks for the compliment on my 2 channel rig. It's funny because it's changed since I posted it two years ago, but a few weekes ago returned to almost the same configuration as shown in my virtual system. I'm one of those back sliding former SET owners, happy with solid state again. Heresy!!

Doesn't NHT also make outdoor speakers that look like the plastic encased XU versions of their old Super line?

Redshoe, are there any other speaker lines you've considered for your HT?