"The SpeedWoofer 12S did an incredible job, pumping out an extraordinary amount of bass while remaining composed."

"The Speedwoofer 12S is a fantastic addition to the RSL family of products, it’s a subwoofer that does it all."

"Waves of bass were sent through my floor when the roots fractured and imploded. As Home Tree lists I could feel it crumbling under its own weight, there was an impressive sense of impact as it finally succumbs and crashes hard into terra firma"

"...the RSL Speedwoofer 12S produces the bass to its fullest capability, digging deep while fully keeping its composure."

"The low end is complex and authoritative, providing deep tones that make the walls shake."

"...the fight scene is another perfect depiction of the 12S’s ability to produce an exceptionally tight bass."

This subwoofer's enormous output with articulate bass makes it an excellent addition to your speaker setup.

“Even when we pitted it against much more expensive models, it emerged as the top pick in our listening tests.”

“The Speedwoofer 10S offers an ideal blend of bass power and finesse, in a compact and affordable package.”

“It sounds great with both music and movies.”

“Despite being half the price of the most expensive model we tested, the Speedwoofer 10S delivered a clear, precise, full sound that made it the favorite in our blind listening tests…”

“It has more deep-bass output than the best budget (and some not-so-budget) subwoofers we’ve tried.”

While RSL Speakers might not be a household name, audio enthusiasts who stay on top of noteworthy brands will certainly know about RSL speakers due to their reputation among hobbyists and the general acclaim they receive from the audio community. RSL has been gathering a reputation as a source of affordable yet high-fidelity loudspeakers that have accrued an online buzz due to a plethora of positive remarks from professional reviewers and customer testimonials alike. Audioholic’s own encounters with RSL products have found them to be a solid brand, so we were excited to see them enter a higher price bracket when we did a preview article on the recent release of their CG5 and CG25 product line. These are the products that we are going to look at in today’s review where we ask if RSL can maintain the same scale of value and performance while entering a higher price point with their latest offerings. Read Full Review >

For the past two years, I’ve lived with RSL’s CG3 5.2 Home Theater Speaker System on pretty much a daily basis. With most of the Atmos-based AV receivers I’ve reviewed, this rocking little system has served as the bed (augmented by a quartet of GoldenEar SuperSat 3s affixed to the ceiling for overhead duties). When I wasn’t reviewing an Atmos system, the CG3 package has been the alpha and omega of my bedroom home theater speaker system.

All of that is simply to say that pulling the company’s new CG5 out of the box was a bit of a shock for me. The CG5 is big. And not just bigger than the CG3, or the larger (now discontinued) CG4 that we reviewed a while back. It’s a beefy beast of a bookshelf speaker, measuring in at over 12.5 inches tall, over 7.5 inches wide, and 10.75 inches deep, and tipping the scales at 16 pounds. Read Full Review >

As a scientifically minded person, I find few things quite so satisfying as being proven wrong … and few speaker systems in recent memory have delighted me quite as much as RSL’s new $1,478 CG3 5.2 home theater speaker system.

You might think that I’m hinting at a poor first impression of the new speaker lineup, but that’s not the case. At least not exactly. To be quite blunt about it, my initial thoughts upon unboxing the quartet of CG3 bookshelf speakers ($135 each) and CG23 center speaker ($200 each) could best be summed up as, “Oh.” The cabinets, while sporting a lovely piano-black gloss finish, don’t stand out in any particular way for speakers their size: 9.5 by 5 by 6 inches for the bookshelves and 16 by 6 by 6.4 inches for the center. The binding posts, while perfectly functional, appear to be standard Parts Express offerings. The drivers–four-inch Kevlar cones and one-inch silk-dome tweeters–certainly look lovely enough, but they could best be summed up as “tried and true” from a design perspective. Read Full Review >

When it comes to loudspeakers, how big is big enough? How small is too small? What size is j-u-u-ust right? Speaker buyers have been asking these questions, and speaker makers have been answering them, ever since a certain Brand B shook the world years ago with micro-sized satellites employing 2.5-inch drivers that struggled to reach down to 200 hertz, mated with similarly challenged Lilliputian subs. Physics notwithstanding, buyers took to them in droves—and since then, the race to the bottom, cubicvolume-wise, has been on.

RSL Speakers, no stranger to the trend (though with a history of fine results), has debuted their most recent answer in the form of a new, compact design, the CG3. RSL, originally known as Rogersound Labs, was reborn a few years back with the introduction of the CG4, a small bookshelf design that was met with wide approval at Sound & Vision, including from me. The CG3 is slightly smaller and (at an individual price of $135) substantially cheaper than the CG4 ($250), employing a samedimensioned but visibly different (and presumably less costly) driver complement: 4-inch woofer and 1-inch soft-dome tweeter. Like its predecessor, the CG3 exploits the California firm’s proprietary, labyrinth-like “compression guide” enclosure to reach a claimed –3 decibel point of 100 Hz—pretty good for a speaker that’s sized like a portly half-gallon milk carton. The new model also shares the same “upside-down” tweeter-underwoofer layout, engineered in part to accommodate the diagonal plenum inside that bifurcates the internal volume to create the compression guide and feed the slot-shaped port on the bottom. You can see more about how and why this works on RSL’s website. Read Full Review >

In 2015, I had an epiphany reviewing RSL’s CG4, CG24 and Speedwoofer 10 loudspeaker system. Until that time, I had never auditioned RSL speakers, much less heard of the company. Let’s just say that once I was done experiencing the incredible CG4 system, the name RSL became unforgettable. I can only say that never before (or since) have I experienced such clean, crisp, and dynamic sound from a home theater system of this size.

Reviewing the CG4 system was like taking a nostalgic look back at audio history too.  Back in the 1970s, Rogersound Labs founder, Howard Rodgers, started building speakers in the back of his audio store the way he thought they should be built with high quality parts and construction. Howard got his break when a Warner Bros. producer listened to his speakers and the rest, as they say, is history. There’s more to the story from my original review on the RSL CG4s. Read Full Review >