Just before KLH slipped totally down the quality toilet (IMO), around 2003 or so they sold some speakers at Best Buy called the "Rave" series. My local BB still has an unopened one, so I'll bet some other stores have singles in their stock area too. Edit:
found them.
The Raves I'm talking about are NOT the newer versions with all the plastic horns, carpeted outside and fake "pro" decorations. These are large floorstanding box speakers that look very similar to certain Cerwin-Vegas, down to their 12" cast-aluminum framed woofers (but with blue surrounds instead of red) and huge rear-mounted dual ports. They even had binding post connectors. I listened to them with 311's
Transistor CD and IMO they sounded very good for their price-kinda bright but not harsh or grainy & the bass was very good (punchy, but not boomy). Back then they only wanted about $400 per pair.
But the WAF for these is very low: very large/heavy satin black boxy cabinets, probably measuring @3 cubic feet (this must have accounted for the surprising depth of bass I heard), with jet black grilles. Martha Stewart would
not approve!
Personally I thought they had a slightly sinister-but-cool style to them, great for a bachelor pad.
BTW: if you don't hear solid bass with these, make sure they are wired in phase! Because with these and also a pair of similar DCMs at Circuit City a couple years ago, they
weren't wired in phase and so of course their bass was basically non-existant until I asked an employee to fix them. The CC guy who thought the DCMs sucked was amazed when he flipped the wires around and we hit "play" again (remember, do this with just ONE speaker). And proper mid & high frequency stereo imaging was also restored.
