they are pretty good speakers they sound decent. the one thing I don t like about joseph audio is there speakers are made in Norway and they put them in good American made hardwood cabinets.so they are not really u.s. made speakers. But you can t fault the speakers only the company.

I recently purchased my first decent stereo, and after auditioning several speakers (Linn, Thiel, Vandersteen, Dunlavy, Epos) I decided on the Joseph Audio RM7si (non-signature). The rest of the system includes the Rotel RA970BX 60 watt integrated amp, Rega Planet CD player, MIT T2 interconnects, a double run of Audioquest Type 2 speaker cable (soon to be upgraded to Cardas Golden Cross I guess)
I cannot begin to tell you how good this system sounds. The RM7's are, in my opinion, the best speaker available for under $1800, and this is the best $2500 (well ok $2650) system I or my friends have ever heard. Buying a system at this price involved making trade-offs and I found that the RM7's do the least things wrong and most things right of any of the speakers I have auditioned. The RM7's are just a beautiful speaker.

I have the RM7si Signatures, and I couldn't be happier. These are the best monitor speakers that I've heard at this price.

Mids and highs are smooth yet very detailed. Vocals are particularly captivating. The bottom end goes down surprisingly low (and is very tuneful), but the bottom octave really isn't present (which is to be expected with a speaker of this size).

They mate well with my BAT VK-60, and probably many other tube amps due to their friendly impedence curve (albeit a lowish sensitivity).

Probably one of the best value for money speakers I ever heard. The RM7si signatures never fail to amaze me when I spin one of my records. Astounding soundstaging and depth. Delicious midrange. I can hardly think of any other speakers that can come close for even twice as much money (specially in the minimonitor category). I have compared them to Platinum Audio Solos, B&W CDM1, Gallo Nucleus, Sonus Faber, NHT, Tannoy, Parradigm ... and to my ear the Josephs were by far the best. I have them bi-wired with Cardas Golden Hex 5C (killer bass). My next step would naturally be the Golden Cross! The signature is definitely worth the extra $400. The metal cone and silk dome do wonders to those babies. Check 'em out.

Not a bad speaker, but save a few bucks and listen to the B&W CDM-1SEs.

Extended very defined bass for the size, Great soundstage with excellent imaging and clarity!

Needs to be on a higher stand than most mini's

I've owned the Joesph Audio RM7si signatures for two years now and find that they are one of the finest mini monitors I've heard.
The asociated equipment used in this review is as follows
SOTA Sapphire with FT-3 tonearm and Bluepoint cartridge for analouge, for CD playback a Esotric P-500 CD transport with a AA DTI and PS Audio Digital link linked up with Cardas digital cables. Preamp is a Audio Reserch SP-9mk2 driving a set of VTL 80 watt mono's with 20 feet of Monster M1000mk2. The speaker cable's are Nordost biwire Blue Heaven's. The lowest FQ's are handeled by a Sunfire True Subwoofer mk2 which is run off the speaker posts of the VTL's with Nordoast Flatline. Power conditioners are Monster and Audioprisum.
These speakers sound best to me when placed on stands at least 27" high, I use sand filled 27" lovan stands the effect is that it places the image at a more realistic level. The soundstage is vast with great depth and images are very stable and well placed within the soundstage and with the right recordings can throw images outside the speakers edges. The midbass is very well controlled and the 6 1/2 inch woofer can fill my 13' by 15' room very nicely. The tonal balance is smooth with the bass rolling off at about 40 HZ and the highs are extened without sounding harsh.
These speakers are very easy to drive and can be used with low powered push-pull and SET tube amps but they will take power and if your taste runs to large scale symphonic works and rock I would suggest at least 50 watts or more.

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Spica TC-50's, Theil CS-2's

Excellent value for the money. Bass is tight and extended quite low for a speaker this size, while the mids and highs are clean and smooth. Also check out the Signature version ($1,699) if your budget allow.

After looking for speakers for my Golden Tube amp/preamp for about 6 months, I heard that Joseph Audio and Golden Tube had done an audio show booth together - and that they might be worth a listen. Wow, is about all I could think to say once I heard them in my system. Before buying the Josephs, I listened to VonSchweikert VR3's and VR4's, B&W 804's and 803's, Paradigm Studio 100's, Lowthers, Linn 5140's, and probably others that are escaping me. Needless to say, none of them held a candle to what the Joseph RM-7si Signatures delivered. I'd never before heard music with such clarity without shrillness, transparency with a realistic 3D imaging. I'm bi-wiring them with Nordost Blue Heaven, and don't have a complaint in the world. Happy listening all!

Imaging, midrange, bass great for monitors.

needs a subwoofer for lowest octave.

I love these RM7si Signatures. The highs and midrange are as good as I have heard at this price. Bass is unusually good for it's size. I drive them with a BAT VK60 from a VTL Ultimate preamp. Top end is very smooth and yet alive. Bad source material can sound very ugly due to excellent resolution and detail. Great source material gives me incredibly real sound. An excellent dac is necessary for
great cd sound. I use an Encore Ovation4 for good results.
My new Bel Canto Dac1 is even better at bringing out the detail in CD's with the sweetest midrange I have heard.
These speakers need some power at 86db 1watt@1 meter but the 7 ohm minimum impedance is very tube frendly. I get very good dynamics with the VK60.
All in all a great monitor speaker with real bass to 40Hz.
Hard to beat for a small speaker.

This is a report on a comparison audition I did at a local stereo store between the Joseph signature model and the Aerial Acoustic Model 5, a similarly sized and priced speaker. Audio Research 45 wpch integrated amp provided the power, and a parasound 1500 CD player was the source. The store used MIT interconnects, but I didn't get the model. The room was acoustically treated; the speakers were on stands well out from the back and side walls. Test material was a live recording of Keith Jarrett's trio, a recording of a classical soprano, accompanied by piano, Tracy Chapman's blues number, Just Give Me One Good Reason" from "New Beginnings" and the Chicago Symphony/Solit recording of Beethoven's 9th, made in the late 60s and re-issued on CD.Both speakers are excellent. The Aerial has a fabulous top end, but has a slight mid-bass emphasis that I did not care for. Both speakers have excellent imaging and convey a great sense of depth in the recordings.
The Joseph gets my vote because it handled the congested fourth movement of the symphony (solo vocal, choir, orchestra) well. The Joseph's rendition was what I would call "coherent." The Aerial did not; the sound was just not clear.
Both of these speakers deserve an audition, if you're looking for monitors and are willing to spend $2K.
Caveats: with tube amps and fancy speaker cables with r/c networks attached, you never can be sure you're hearing the speaker and not the amp and cables. The mid-bass fullness I heard could have been the result of a particular interaction with that amp and cables.
The Josephs get the five-speakers from me, for speakers of their type. I do not believe any monitor can reproduce the full sonic impact of live performance; I do not know whether these could, if driven by a more powerful amp. With this combination, reproduction was satisfyingly loud, but not concert-level. If you want concert-level volume and have the space for them, I expect your dollars could be better spent on a larger floor-standing system, at the expense of some accuracy.