Speaker Asylum: REVIEW: TDL RTL3 Speakers by Vaughanie

These are simply the best speakers in the sub £1000 price bracket. They do need good powerful amplification to achieve their best bass delivery. Forget Similarly priced offerings from Mission,Rega,Monitor Audio, Jamo, et al. They are stunning all rounders, but are talented enough to deliver on demanding classical program.

Try to reproduce a 24 foot organ pipe on anything else in this price bracket and you will see why...other speakers just fail to reproduce the organ fundamentals..

Try to reproduce a 24 foot organ fundamental on any small speaker, however expensive and the argument ends there :-) Most speakers just don't go this low, and many people have just not heard REAL musical Bass and are satisfied with the roll off that most modern speakers have (what a shame!). Furthermore, this level of bass can overwhelm the inexperienced midi system listener with a collection of badly recorded popular program.

Still wondering about the use of such bass on more modern program? Some have said that the quality of such bass is not "tight". I suggest that argument is spurious because the RTL's just go so low. The bass is a joy on well recorded/engineered Rock Pop and Dance CD's. If it does sound "woolley" question the quality of the recording :-) It hits you in the gut - where it should!

If you want better loudspeakers pay the markup and go for speakers of Meridian Digital or Apogee dipole class if you can afford those sorts of bucks *smiles* and afford *smiles* appropriate amplification and *smiles* matching battleship front ends. And, in the case of the Apogees have the high ceiling room.

Highly sort after as a second hand buy. If you remember very good but not stunning Hi-Fi magazine reviews of this product. Remember that TDL didn't quite buy the same amount of advertising space in the likes of "What Hi-Fi" and "Hi-Fi Choice" as did some other highly praised models from manufacturers who did take out the advertising space. Consider this philosophy to when you look at, the, uhem, "unbiased" commercial reviews of today's Hi-Fi. Hint, apply this logic too when you look at reviews of computer systems...LOL!

If you still doubt this argument ring up a computer magazine, say you are a company selling a new computer system and that you want a review. See if they give you one without taking out advertising space!!

Strange how all the best magazine reviewed kit always has BIG adverts after it few pages later...

Your ears are the best judges...

REVIEW: TDL RTL3 Speakers Review by Vaughanie at Audio Asylum