A while back I picked up a pair of Infinity RS II speakers at an auction that I've been looking forward to giving a listen. Well yesterday turned out to be a good day to take the RS IIIB's out of the system, move the RS II's in from the garage and hook them up. Now these RS II speakers are as found, I've done nothing to them whatsoever yet but my initial impression is that they're better in what seems to me to be original condition than the RS IIIB's I refurbished, and they sound pretty darn good themselves.
I've read here on this forum and elsewhere that the RS II's work best when a few feet away from the back wall but that's not an option here at our house so I've got them a foot away from the back wall but have to say that they still kick ass positioned like that!! I'll continue to play these a lot over the next few weeks, even when I'm not home, at low levels, in order to insure that the caps reform, just in case these speakers weren't in use before I got them, though I think they were.
I'm driving them with a WOPL 400 that I did a full comp mod on last winter and it seems to be a perfect combination. Wow and I'm more of a tube guy than a SS guy but this amp is awesome and whatever praise you may have heard about White Oak (and Joe's) mods IS true! Dead quiet, amazing headroom, crystal clear and so much reserve power, it's perfect for power hungry speakers like the RS II and the RS IIIB Infinities.
Since owning and living with a pair of RCA LC-1 speakers a most important criterion for me in rating a speaker is how does it sound at low volume? All the "very good" and "great" speakers, it seems to me, sound great when you crank them but too often I've found that at low levels there's just so much missing. My first impression of these Infinity RS II speakers is that they do sound very good at low levels. So, for my tastes, that's a big plus. Of course I did turn up the volume considerably too, I don't listen to everything, all the time at mid to low levels and again, they sounded very good. It seems that these speakers are deserving of much of the praise I've read that is heaped upon them but after only a day, I can't say all the praise...yet.
I've read here on this forum and elsewhere that the RS II's work best when a few feet away from the back wall but that's not an option here at our house so I've got them a foot away from the back wall but have to say that they still kick ass positioned like that!! I'll continue to play these a lot over the next few weeks, even when I'm not home, at low levels, in order to insure that the caps reform, just in case these speakers weren't in use before I got them, though I think they were.
I'm driving them with a WOPL 400 that I did a full comp mod on last winter and it seems to be a perfect combination. Wow and I'm more of a tube guy than a SS guy but this amp is awesome and whatever praise you may have heard about White Oak (and Joe's) mods IS true! Dead quiet, amazing headroom, crystal clear and so much reserve power, it's perfect for power hungry speakers like the RS II and the RS IIIB Infinities.
Since owning and living with a pair of RCA LC-1 speakers a most important criterion for me in rating a speaker is how does it sound at low volume? All the "very good" and "great" speakers, it seems to me, sound great when you crank them but too often I've found that at low levels there's just so much missing. My first impression of these Infinity RS II speakers is that they do sound very good at low levels. So, for my tastes, that's a big plus. Of course I did turn up the volume considerably too, I don't listen to everything, all the time at mid to low levels and again, they sounded very good. It seems that these speakers are deserving of much of the praise I've read that is heaped upon them but after only a day, I can't say all the praise...yet.
