davy (12/07/82)
#N:pur-ee:12000009:000:401 pur-ee!davy Dec 6 10:40:00 1982 Anybody know anything about Rogers British High Fidelity speakers? A friend wants to buy some, although personally I don't think they're worth it ($640/pr for what seems to me to be about $200/pr worth of speaker). I've never even heard of them. Please mail all responses to: decvax!pur-ee!davy ucbvax!pur-ee!davy ihnss!pur-ee!davy harpo!pur-ee!davy --Dave Curry pur-ee!davy
mat@hou5e.UUCP (06/26/83)
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 hou5e!mat