I'll never forget one of my first conversations with
Big B.
I had been a dealer for only a couple weeks, and was still learning the line.
I have to say that any of you who have talked to Brian on the phone know that he is a "man of few words". And I mean if a yes or no will suffice, that is likely all you'll get.
Additionally, I always felt like he had so much to do, that he couldn't wait to get off the phone.
Well he had just introduced a new speaker called the
LRC. It was nowhere on the website, and all I ever saw were the letters
LRC.
Finally I received the
VMPS price list and on it was the
LRC. So I did know that it was for HT use, and I made the leap that
LRC stood for
Left, Right, Center, and that it could be used across the front of a HT system.
So I have
B on the phone, and ask him about the
NEW Left Right Center????
Silence.......
I went on to tell him it was his new speaker the Left Right Center.
More silence....
Then He finally said do you mean the
LARGE RIBBON CENTER 
OK it finally sunk in, and to this day I'll never forget being the "new dealer on the block" and asking the head honcho about the Left/Right/Center, and thinking he must think me a numbskull
Anyhow, I'm sure B, has pretty much forgotten that conversation, but it leads to the second
30th Anniversary Special he has decided to offer.
Obviously it is the
LRC (Large Ribbon Center everyone
) But it is in the version we will call the
LRC jr.
This is one special speaker in many times glossed over by the floorstanding
RM series.
While it was designed to function as the
Ultimate Center Channel (a title that now has been assumed by the Horizontal RM40C) it is easily used for any of the speakers of the 7, in a 7.1 HT set up.
The great thing about it, is that it is
front ported, so that it can be placed rather close to the wall with no problems (or even in the recesses of those big Home Entertainment Center cabinets)
Now this is no small speaker (as one might guess since its first name is LARGE) and is about the largest speaker most of you might want to pick up without a partner and or a hernia belt.
It will play loud, and deep, and easily goes down to 35hz with nice clean bass.
I had one of the first ones made sitting on my RPTV way back when, and used to love to play the DTS sampler DVD to show people how VMPS speakers perform.
There was a scene from the Haunting where one of the charachters was being chased through this haunted house, and my God, those dual WCFwoofers looked like they were going to jump out of the speaker cabinet.
But as I said,
Part Deux is the
LRC jr, which maybe I'll rename the LRCSS (= Left Right Center Side Surround) since it can be used in each of those functions.
Here is what we have:
Brian is offering an
LRCjr effective immediately at $549ea retail in piano black, lite and dark oak, and cherry.
Megawoofers add $200 and FST $200ea are upgrades.
SR71 is included
in the $549ea price. These are Bud Bailey cabinets.
This is a
"STEAL" since we do have the same thing in MLS cabinets in maple, rosewood, and ebony as well at the regular MLS price of $1150 ea including the Megawoofers, add $200 for the FST and $88 for SR71.
So the tricked out MLS LRC = $1438
So the LRC jr is a smokin' good deal
