My wife never liked the aesthetics of walking through the door was a wall-mounted bookshelf speaker, which stuck out a good 8 inches from the wall. Despite the great sound, it wasn’t so easy on the eyes.
After receiving approval from the CFO, I had to decide which in-wall speakers to purchase. The decision was pretty simple: I chose RSL (Rogersound Labs) because the company offers a tremendous value proposition and is built on a compelling story.
AN AMERICAN TALE
RSL started making speakers back in 1970 and became an instant success. Founder Howard Rodgers had a vision of building speakers with high-quality parts and selling them direct to the consumer at affordable prices; selling direct enabled the company to keep prices low by cutting distributor and dealer. The strategy worked. Rodgers opened and as luck would have it, one of his early customers was a producer from Warner Brothers Records who was so impressed by what he heard that he ended up buying a pair of speakers and spreading the word among his colleagues in the music business.
Before long, RSL speakers were being placed in recording studios throughout Southern California.
In the years that followed, Rodgers developed speakers and eventually invented and patented Compression Guide technology, an enclosure design that reduces the cabinet resonance common to all box speakers by guiding rear sound waves through calculated expansion and compression areas, thereby improving sound quality.
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