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From: mat@hou5e.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Rogers speakers
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Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 00:12:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 26 00:12:57 1983
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  I thought I would pass this along for the benefit of anyone looking
for speakers.  I heard a pair that made me wish that I were.

  They are made by ROGERS, which I understand is an established audio
firm.  They are supposed to be quite hard to find.  Anyway, the set
I heard was a medium-sized bookshelf pair, wieghing apparently over
25 pounds per speaker.  I initially heard them on stands; then again
on a shelf.  On the shelf they sounded rather good; on the stands
where I first heard them I estimated their cost at about $1200-$1400.
I was surprised, though not overwhelmed, to hear an $860 dollar price.

  They seemed to have a very even, very wide, response, with  deep,
solid bass.  Their strongest point, however, was imaging.  Most
speakers seem to limit imaging to a more or less triangular area
between the speakers and the listener.  Sounds outside that area,
or too close to the listener, get squeezed into the boundries of
that region.  Placed away from the wall, these speakers give a
much broader area.  Imaging seemed good in an approximately circular
area that included the speakers and the listener and a good bit besides.

  The speakers use none of the left-right channel cross-feed devices used
by such speakers as the new top-of-the-line Polks or such processors
as the Sonic Hologram (TM Carver Corp) or time delay units.  They are
free-standing loudspeakers, and apparently very good ones.

  If anyone would like to know where I heard thm, send me mail.  (New
York, New Jersey area!)

				Mark Terribile
				Duke of deNet
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