Choice Audio, Inc in White Bear Lake, MN

Reviews about Choice Audio, Inc

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  January 12, 2019, by Tom Albrecht
  "If you are looking for speakers and electronics to make your music and movies sounds their best then you owe it to yourself to talk to the guys at Choice Audio. I first contacted them last fall looking for a REL T5 subwoofer after "The Absolute Sound" rated it a best buy in it's price range. I went there and we listened to a variety of different music with the T5 hooked up to a few different speakers. REL is really in a class by itself when it comes to subs, most musical I have ever heard, they blend seamlessly into the rest of your speakers so you never feel like you are listening to a sub, but rather you end up hearing the rest of speakers producing a quality of sound you never thought them capable of. They make everything in your sound system sound better, in accuracy, transparency and soundstage. They happened to have a T5 thay they had taken in on trade and sold it to me at a very good price. Then a month or two later they said they had heard some speakers from a company out of Italy called Opera. So I went back to their showroom to hear the Mezza bookshelf speakers and the sound was jaw dropping to say the least, the attack speed, soundstage and accuracy of the speakers was amazing. I had been to a number of other dealers and auditioned various speakers from Bowers and Wilkins, bookshelfs,towers and center channels, and also the Magnepan .7's. They make some very nice speakers with a good sound in their own way, even bought a Bowers and Wilkins CM center channel. Nothing I listened to matched the sound of the Mezzas however and when I found out Opera makes a center channel so I sold my Bowers and Wilkins center channel and ordered the Opera Centrale center channel speaker. Turned out to be another great choice as much like the T5 it not only sounds great it makes everything else in my system sound better, not only that but they are the perfect match(REL and Opera), making each other shine. I have a pair of Mezzas on order and can't wait to get those as well. I really loved the T5 but wanted something to add some more punch my home theatre sound so started looking at the REL S2 and all the reviews I read of it were glowing so decided to order it and turned out to be a great purchase (they even took my T5 back in trade). Even though it has a 10" driver and a bottom facing 10" passive driver it actually has an even faster attack speed and of course more punch than the T5. There aren't enough superlatives to describe it's sound, improves every aspect of sound for music and home theater, revealing every nuance of music and sound, including timbre and realism. I highly recommend calling Choice Audio to audition their REL and Opera products, as well as their primo selection of electronics from companies like Parasound, Unison(sister company of Opera) and Plinius." So this past Sunday I got the Mezza bookshelf speakers I had ordered from them and after listening to them all week have to say yet again that they sound incredible, so musical you forget you are listening to speakers because all you hear is the music. The combination of the Centrale center channel, the REL S2 sub and the Mezzas in surround produces an incredible wall of sound when listening in surround mode!