watchnerd
Grand Contributor
Fairly gushing review of the Pioneer RM-07 by Phil Ward on Sound on Sound:
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/pioneer-rm-07
-Active
-Low diffraction cabinet of some kind of alloy
-Tech that originated at TAD
-Allegedly Andrew Jones was involved before he left Pioneer (believable given the Uni-Q type driver)
-About $750 each / $1500 pair
In the conclusion, Phil Ward says:
"I’ve been lucky enough to review in these pages a few extravagantly priced monitors with sky-high aspirations. The Pioneer RM-07 is rather different, however, firstly in that it’s priced at around the entry level for serious active monitors, and secondly because it doesn’t really make claims to break revolutionary technological ground or overtly aspire to be the best. But of all the recent nearfield monitors I’ve tried it’s actually my favourite — not just because it works so well and fundamentally does the job, but because it seems to me to represent genuine, thoughtful, ‘old-school’ and skilful electroacoustic engineering of great integrity and quality. If I wanted to recommend it more highly, I wouldn’t know how. And no, I really never imagined I’d be writing that about a Pioneer speaker."
I'm tempted to get a pair because I've never owned a coincident / coaxial speaker and this has less unnecessary bells & whistles than the KEF LS50 Wireless active speakers.
But I can't get past that it's a Pioneer...which is stupid.
Thoughts?
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/pioneer-rm-07
-Active
-Low diffraction cabinet of some kind of alloy
-Tech that originated at TAD
-Allegedly Andrew Jones was involved before he left Pioneer (believable given the Uni-Q type driver)
-About $750 each / $1500 pair
In the conclusion, Phil Ward says:
"I’ve been lucky enough to review in these pages a few extravagantly priced monitors with sky-high aspirations. The Pioneer RM-07 is rather different, however, firstly in that it’s priced at around the entry level for serious active monitors, and secondly because it doesn’t really make claims to break revolutionary technological ground or overtly aspire to be the best. But of all the recent nearfield monitors I’ve tried it’s actually my favourite — not just because it works so well and fundamentally does the job, but because it seems to me to represent genuine, thoughtful, ‘old-school’ and skilful electroacoustic engineering of great integrity and quality. If I wanted to recommend it more highly, I wouldn’t know how. And no, I really never imagined I’d be writing that about a Pioneer speaker."
I'm tempted to get a pair because I've never owned a coincident / coaxial speaker and this has less unnecessary bells & whistles than the KEF LS50 Wireless active speakers.
But I can't get past that it's a Pioneer...which is stupid.
Thoughts?