Appholic
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Wall-mounted 75 and 85-inch sets have been normal for years now, but the speaker options beside them still split into soundbar or two towers eating your floor. BIC America has revived the RtR name for a third option: an Elite on-wall series with three tower models, the OWT65, OWT75 and OWT85, each sized to sit alongside a screen of roughly that class.
The tower spec is the part I find interesting. Rather than the usual ultra-shallow on-wall box, these use internally braced MDF cabinets with two extra-long-throw 4.5-inch woofers and four passive radiators, and the cabinets are tapered so the output angles down toward a seated listener instead of firing over your head. That last bit matters more than people expect. If your TV is mounted high, on-walls flanking it are usually aimed at the ceiling behind the sofa. All three handle up to 100 watts RMS and take up to 14-gauge wire on gold-plated binding posts. There are also two voice-matched centres and two dual-angle surround models in the line.
What I have not seen anywhere is a price, and the whole pitch rests on it. RtR is a name from 1966 that stopped production in 1990, and BIC has held the trademark since 1999, so this is a brand revival rather than continuity. The badge on the grille tells you nothing about how these sound. Four passive radiators hanging off a pair of 4.5-inch woofers also tells you exactly where the bass extension claim is coming from, and passive radiators sitting against a wall behave differently than they do on a bench.
Has anyone here run on-walls as fronts long-term rather than as surrounds? Boundary gain seems to be either a gift or a nightmare depending on the room and I have never had a straight answer on which.
The tower spec is the part I find interesting. Rather than the usual ultra-shallow on-wall box, these use internally braced MDF cabinets with two extra-long-throw 4.5-inch woofers and four passive radiators, and the cabinets are tapered so the output angles down toward a seated listener instead of firing over your head. That last bit matters more than people expect. If your TV is mounted high, on-walls flanking it are usually aimed at the ceiling behind the sofa. All three handle up to 100 watts RMS and take up to 14-gauge wire on gold-plated binding posts. There are also two voice-matched centres and two dual-angle surround models in the line.
What I have not seen anywhere is a price, and the whole pitch rests on it. RtR is a name from 1966 that stopped production in 1990, and BIC has held the trademark since 1999, so this is a brand revival rather than continuity. The badge on the grille tells you nothing about how these sound. Four passive radiators hanging off a pair of 4.5-inch woofers also tells you exactly where the bass extension claim is coming from, and passive radiators sitting against a wall behave differently than they do on a bench.
Has anyone here run on-walls as fronts long-term rather than as surrounds? Boundary gain seems to be either a gift or a nightmare depending on the room and I have never had a straight answer on which.
