Originally Posted by
JR123
Well it has been two wonderful months with my RAAL towers. I'm in my 40s, got into audio gear at age 15, and will just come right out and say that these are the best speakers I've ever owned. With my 8 yeard old Sierra-1s coming in second place.
Price wise, the only other time I've owned speakers that approached $3000 would have been from Unity Audio. I don't remember the exact model- CLA-1s maybe? Bookshelf speakers with a 6.5 driver, ceramic dome tweeter, with another conventional tweeter on the back. They came with a pair of passive sealed subs. Each sub had two 10" drivers. I owned the Unity Audio system from roughly 2000 to 2010. Now I don't trust my audio memory well enough for a detailed comparison- plus I changed houses and electronics- but I'll take the towers over the UA speakers any day.
I think my favorite thing about the towers is their ability to show little details I've never heard before. There are certain CDs (Dire Straights, Fleetwood Mac, Tori Amos) and movies (Heat, Casino, Kingdom of Heaven) that I know front to back after YEARS of listening. Yet whenever I turn on the towers, I hear new things.
And that bass. Deep, fast, and clean. And when the recording calls for it, the towers can really pressurize the room.
As for my old Sierra-1s, they live with my girlfriend now. Powered by the new PS Audio Sprout100 integrated. So she has an amazing sounding stereo in her apartment, doing double duty for 2.0 music and movies.