[John Casler]

John Puccio of Classical Candor Website has just posted a review of his REFERENCE Speaker for his reviews, the VMPS RM40.

Please look here http://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2009/10/vmps-rm-40-loudspeakers-loudspeaker.html  for the full review. 


Below are a few excerts:

"To begin, I had been using FMI (Fulton Musical Industries) Model J's for a very long time before buying the VMPS RM 40s. The fact was, I simply couldn't find anything affordable that I liked better."



"The problems I encountered looking for new speakers you can already guess. Bob Fulton had died years before, so FMI was no longer in business. Everything I listened to that sounded better than my old J's cost considerably more than $5,000. And everything I listened to that cost less than $5,000 sounded awful."



"He introduced me to the RM 40s, which coincidentally and without my telling him in advance closely matched price-wise the $5,000 I had in mind to spend (although the price has since gone up). What I heard from the speakers was a revelation; they were not bright or dull or hard or soft or boomy. I heard only music from them, and I spent the better part of a Saturday morning auditioning them."

[Brian Cheney]

The RM40 is now 8 years old and has been updated several times, most recently with the outboard SDE digital crossover and EQ which provides speaker and room correction.

RM40Jr's ($2995pr) with the SDE ($995) will perform at a level significantly above most competitors, and at a reasonable price.  The 40Jr or its more elaborate siblings should be an ideal speaker for many audiophiles.

[dubravko]

This review is very realistic portray of how RM40s perform if they are well placed, adjusted and powered. A fact that review reflects impressions after years of listening to these speakers is a huge plus. Great!

[Doug Ravizza]

He mentions a "floor-firing ten-inch subwoofer". Has the PR been replaced with an active driver since I bought mine in 2005?

[John Casler]

He mentions a "floor-firing ten-inch subwoofer". Has the PR been replaced with an active driver since I bought mine in 2005?

That was a non-technical reference to the "slot loaded" Passive Radiator.

Only real change to the PR over the years has been the vitrification process to make the cone stiffer.