Energy Owners Thread - Page 1092

Originally Posted by losservatore

The RC speakers really shine with brass instruments.

Originally Posted by losservatore

The RC speakers really shine with brass instruments.

Originally Posted by Macstatic

Where did you get the tweeters from? I assume you bought them for spares, but I'm interested in getting a pair of them before they're impossible to find as insurance in case my daughter does something like this someday

Originally Posted by Saints

What happened to the Trombone Shorty post??? Shorty is mah home boy!

Originally Posted by beaveav

Yeah, 50% off for a fairly new speaker line is not a normal sale. It makes me think the Veritas line is not selling well at all. They may have way more inventory than they would like. Whether or not they'll be discontinued, I don't know, but I do think they likely built way more than they've sold.

Originally Posted by afrogt

Well considering discontinued RC speakers are/were less than 40% of the price of their Veritas brethren, especially when most speculated they were using the same drivers as the RC, could you really expect strong sales?

I mean buy the Veritas 6.3 for MSRP $1600 or a discounted RC-70 for $600? Seems like a no brainer to me to get the RC. You can get two RC-70 towers and the RC LCR for that price.

Originally Posted by GaresTaylan

The discounted price they already have on the site had the total at $650. After doing some snooping online, seemed like that was a pretty darn nice deal already for those (outside of somewhere like eBay).

They were able to knock an additional $75 of that price. $575 with no tax and free shipping - can't beat that, IMO.

I would love to have some tower speakers, but with the set up of our living room and space... even I would have a hard time talking my wife into it rationally.

Maybe, down the road, Ill pick up some floor standing speakers and switch the RC-10's to rear surrounds. Or, I don't know, maybe ill pick up another pair of RC-10's down the road so ill have them in the front and the rear.

I also picked up a pair of these... nothing fancy but they should get the job done: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...X0DER&v=glance

Originally Posted by skoobydoo

Could be a rethink. I see same great prices over at Amazon. 64% off on the sub woofer though. What is that all about?

After thinking about upgrading my RC70 mains to Veritas. I decided it isn't a good idea to have 5.25" drivers mixed with the current 5.5" drivers. Takes way from the theory, all the speakers sound best when matched. Plus it cuts down on the number of spare parts I may need in the future.

Heck of a deal on the v-10 sub though. At 64% off, I couldn't pass that up. Can't wait to match it up with my esw-v8,

Originally Posted by GaresTaylan

The discounted price they already have on the site had the total at $650. After doing some snooping online, seemed like that was a pretty darn nice deal already for those (outside of somewhere like eBay).

They were able to knock an additional $75 of that price. $575 with no tax and free shipping - can't beat that, IMO.

Originally Posted by CalgaryCowboy

Most of the amazon stuff is coming from Vanns. Noticed that it said only 8 6.3s left. When I think of matched speakers I think of tonal matching. It is common to mismatch driver sizes between center, Mains, surrounds. For example if you have 70s and LCR you are mismatching 6.5 woofer to 5.5 woofer and 5.5 mid range to inverted dome mid range. Same goes for 2 way RC-10s. Unless you have RC-70s all around and then I see your point.

Originally Posted by Macstatic

For those of you who have the RCs: Find the song "Hold On I'm Coming" by BB King and Eric Clapton. It sounds great

Originally Posted by mphfrom77

Do you know the album title? Clapton sounds great on my RC's! A couple songs from some album called something like "Down on the Bayou" or something like that is just sweet. I can look up the actual title later if necessary.

Originally Posted by Macstatic

For those of you who have the RCs: Find the song "Hold On I'm Coming" by BB King and Eric Clapton. It sounds great

Originally Posted by CalgaryCowboy

Very nice! I have been exposed to some great music lately in this thread. If you have the right version of the August rush soundtrack "dueling guitars" sounds great. I find most classical/spanish guitar track also sound very nice on RC/Vs where all the details comes out and you can hear the plucking of the strings.

Originally Posted by losservatore

This is one my favorites dvds in my home crossroads festival 2007 especially the Jeff beck part that's when I discovered that the energy RC really sound phenomenal

Originally Posted by Macstatic

It's an album with the whole thing consisting of songs by the two together. I think it's called "Riding with the King"

Originally Posted by Macstatic

That is definitely true. The song I mentioned has alot of guitar and some piano. Brass instruments from most of BB King's songs are phenomenal. Especially anything with a saxaphone. The reason I recommended that song was because the instrumentals ring true and sound like Eric Clapton and BB King are in the room with you playing a duet. Pretty awesome!

Originally Posted by GaresTaylan

Well, unfortunately Vann's really ticked me off tonight. Before I placed the order my estimated arrive date was tomorrow, 10/27/11. I spoke to live chat before I placed the order and they confirmed I would have it no later than 10/28 as they couldn't tell if it would ship today or tomorrow.

Well, low and behold I check my tracking info and my estimated arrival time is 11/1. So I contact Vann's and pretty much get an "oops" reply from customer service followed by an "even though we told you this date we can't guarantee it" comment. If they would have told me the correct date the first time I would have paid extra for shipping. Pretty aggravated with them right now which is incredibly disappointing since I was ecstatic with how well they treated me earlier today.

Originally Posted by Macstatic

I have the August Rush album in my closet somewhere. Haven't even thought to listen to it since the last time I played it was on my HTIB about 2 years ago. Guess what I'm pulling out next?

Originally Posted by skoobydoo

Well, I was sitting in the hot tub, thinking I needed to buy something. I then realized that maybe the sub woofer was on sale. It should be here on November 1st. Sure is one heck of an incentive on this Veritas stuff. They are welcome to spur my interest anytime.

Originally Posted by jjl4004

I didn’t think that there was any validation that the new stock of RC-70s were recently-built speakers. I know that is a possibility, but another possibility that was previously mentioned (I think) was that these are leftover stock from somewhere in China that are (slowly) making their way to the US. The build quality of the 70s coming in may be just as good as the older stock and might actually be older stock.

If people are hesitant about buying the new 70s because there is a possibility that Audiovox had a hand in the construction of this lot of speakers, I understand. However, I wouldn’t base my decisions on speculation.

I have not seen any reports of the new stock of RC-10s or RC-LCRs being any different in sound quality or build quality, compared to the old stock. Granted, the new stock of LCRs were just recently made available and the 10s have been for sale for just a few months, so that’s not a lot of time for reports to surface. I also realize that it’s unlikely that people who have ordered the new stock of 10s or LCRs have old stock to compare them to. My point is…I would assume the sound and build quality of the new 70s to be on par with what has previously been sold since I haven’t seen any evidence that would suggest otherwise.

Originally Posted by DAC21

Another thought is that this new found stock possibly could be warranty hold back stock. Since Energy has a 5 year warranty on there Speakers, they needed to hold stock once the RC line was discontinued. Maybe they held back too much stock, and now that they are into year 2/3? since they discontinued the RC line they have a better feel how much they need. I guess the hole in that theory is that we aren't seeing new RC-30 / RC-50 or Cherry/Rosenut finish coming into stock.

Originally Posted by kgallerie

Just fyi, the saxophone is not a brass instrument.....its a woodwind.

Originally Posted by DAC21

Another thought is that this new found stock possibly could be warranty hold back stock. Since Energy has a 5 year warranty on there Speakers, they needed to hold stock once the RC line was discontinued. Maybe they held back too much stock, and now that they are into year 2/3? since they discontinued the RC line they have a better feel how much they need. I guess the hole in that theory is that we aren't seeing new RC-30 / RC-50 or Cherry/Rosenut finish coming into stock.

Originally Posted by CalgaryCowboy

I just realised I never posted that I picked up a new sub. Velodyne DEQ15. Might not be upto some of the internet direct subs but got it local at a great price. Now fighting the urge to pick up another and go dual.