“If you’re thinking of flying with the big boys and dipping into the world of serious home cinema, Perlisten’s R12s will certainly get you a long way to achieving that. “
This is one nimble, ‘light on its feet’, yet incredibly powerful small-footprint subwoofer. Its performance is underscored by a smooth and rich sonic character, perfect for enhancing a small AV room. It’s all wrapped in a beautiful finish and one that can take pride of place in your movie den.
What Is the Perlisten R12s Subwoofer?
Hardly more than a few months seem to go by without Perlisten hitting the AV headlines. Whether it expands with a new and sumptuous loudspeaker line or wows the press with a proprietary audio design feature, there’s never a dull moment. After all, its products leave AV geeks salivating, and with good reason. If, like me, you prefer to have all your natty tech on full view in your hallowed cinema space, then Perlisten’s finely crafted designs always step up. And then there’s the performance, which seems incapable of invoking disappointment.
While Perlisten loudspeakers are equally adept at movie and music duties, the company has an acute appreciation of the requirements of multi-channel audio, as distinct from two-channel listening. It feels as if its patent-pending DPC array satellite architecture picks up right where THX’s licensed technology development arc rolled off. And promoting a push-pull arrangement for its high-end subwoofers was surely a natural sequitur. Perlisten’s uncompromising research into optimising residential cinema sound must be welcome in an increasingly anarchical AV landscape.
