Look elsewhere if you're a serious music lover and wish to have one set of speakers for both movies and music. With its coated fabric tweeters, Polk Audio's RM7300 is refreshingly free of audible glare found in lesser speakers. A modest-size subwoofer puts out lots of bass that's taut and deep. It doesn't call attention to itself during movie programming, as some subwoofers do by huffing and puffing in the corner of the room. Instead, seismic waves of deep, detailed sound roll across the room.
Music comes across in a natural manner, neither too aggressive nor too laid-back.
Movies through NHT's VT-1.2 sounded lush and spacious, and speech intelligibility was great even during noisy, complex action sequences. While the bass was impressive for music playback, for some intense action scenes it was disappointingly thin. The system we tested didn't come with a separate subwoofer, which is a shame as NHT has some impressive subwoofers in its product line. Movies are detailed and enveloping, greatly adding to the realism of the experience. Music of all flavors is conveyed faithfully with a sparkle and sense of liveliness missing from many speaker systems.