Excellent review, Charles, although it might have been better still with a few sound effects thrown in...like the helicopter circling....for effect.
Re. vinyl veneers: if I'm not mistaken, the 'base' vinyl choices(boston cherry, black oak etc) actually come attached to the 4x8 mdf sheets as a unit and are then machined and cut to make the cabinets from that sheet...making sure not to cut all the way through a corner joint so when it is folded over to form the corner there is an 'invisible' seam and continuous grain pattern going around the corner. The custom vinyl is likely just that: a custom vinyl, separately applied over the speaker(not part of the 4x8 mdf)if I'm not mistaken, hence the slightly higher price/cost in manufacturing.
It sounds like the QS8s are quite successful when paired up with a number of other speakers (PSB, Paradigm, MAs, oh yah and Axioms)
