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Just a curiosity about the speaker company Soundstage. I was auditioning them at a Visions Electronics store in Edmonton about a month ago and wasn't able to find a decent review or forum about them on the net(which is how I came to find Axiom while looking for reviews). I am sold anyway for buying and trying out the Axiom m60's, Qs*'s and VP 150, but I'm curious why this is the only store to carry the brand. They sounded pretty good, but that was in a dealer room, and they look really sharp. The salesman recommended them over the Polk Monitor series. The speakers I listened to were the Stage 400, 500 and 800. Soundstage appears to be a division of Jam Industries, but on the JAM website, they do not say anything of soundstage. Are they a sleasy company like Nuance(and what really is the story about Nuance?)Please help clarify this for me as it is a curiosity itchin me. Thanks Chris
(if i broke any forum rules, i did not intend to in any fashion)

Why do you say that Nuance is sleasy?

Although I've never heard then, from everything I have read about the Nuance line is they could be compared to Bose in their marketing attempts to sell speakers that are ridiculously overpriced and underwhelming in performance. I'll also bet it would be difficult to find any type of professional review of them.

Our very own Mojo is about as close as we're going to get with a "professional" review.

Lol Sean you must have a memory like a sponge

Their website is terrible and there are no specs available anywhere. I had a chance to hear a pair of Nuance bookshelves however and they sounded very good. They were a grand which is too much relative to the 80s IMO. But besides the 22s, M3s, Bose 301s and Sonys, I haven't listened to any other bookshelves. The Nuances that I heard definitely blew these other bookshelves away though.

In my case, the only similarity is the abundance of holes. . .

Thanks, Sean. Enjoy your burled walnut .

Tex, I'll take your word for it since I've never heard them and can only comment on what I've read. But I don't think I would ever spend a grand on bookshelfs that I can't find specs on.

Nuance was only sold through a retail outlet much like Visions' own Soundstage brand. I can not for the life of me remember the name of that company, anyway, Nuance had a bad rap from poor sales practices more than poor performance. I can remembr a set of Nuance speakers that were the size of a wall, 6-7' tall and 2-3' wide, they played really loud but that is about all I can remember. I used to work with someone that had purchased a 5.1 set from that nameless company just before they went out of business. He seemed to really like his setup.