"The foxL v2 Platinum is the single most astonishing piece of audio gear I have ever heard. All of this has a list price of $279, but can be found online for $229. That didn’t stop some of the computer a-hole writers from saying "such quality doesn’t come cheap." Something is wrong with those geeks.

The sound produced by the foxL v2 Platinum amazed me. A low end that goes down to 80Hz means that human voices sound convincingly right. I took the review sample to the house of a music-loving friend‚ the owner of a wine shop‚ and played him Jacqueline Du Pré performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto. "It does cello!" he exclaimed in amazement. The comment by my next-door neighbor‚ an audiophile‚ though incredibly positive‚ is unprintable.

The foxL v2 Platinum does do cello. It goes deep enough to rock out reasonably well. It will just plain amaze you‚ no matter your musical tastes. Along with the physics-defying low-end extension‚ it sounded clean and linear.

I’m not saying that this little wonder performs better than a big system—I’ll leave that kind of hyperbole to the "B" company—but after playing with this thing for a month‚ all I can say is what I said the first time I heard it: The foxL v2 Platinum is the single most astonishing piece of audio gear I’ve ever heard. It belongs under every audiophile’s Christmas tree or Chanukah menorah or Ramadan fanoos or Kwanzaa kinara or agnostic question mark."