The NSMT Loudspeakers Model 50/Jamaica Active Speaker System Preview

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Is it possible to develop a high end speaker system that has its own amplifiers and can serve as a switcher for your source components, as well as let you stream from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi sources like a portable digital audio player or a mobile phone or tablet?

That’s the challenge NSMT Loudspeakers took on with the development of the Model 50/Jamaica Active Speaker System. It’s designed to be a simple package that could meet many listeners quest for speakers, matched amplifiers and source switching in a single package.

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I was able to live with these speakers for several days and test them on a variety of source material that reflected all kinds of music, from folk and jazz to rock and classical.

At $2495 the Jamaica Towers weren’t cheap speakers, so I put them up against more expensive systems to see how they would do. I changed their positions in my room, and let them play full range without an assist from a subwoofer to hear them as they were shipped.

There aren’t a lot of speakers with similar designs, but I was interested in how practical a speaker/amplifier combination would be, and do determine if the engineers at NSMT Loudspeakers met their goals of high quality sound in an integrated package.

My results will appear here soon, and audiophiles wanting a simplified matched speaker/amplifier combination would do well to check out how these speakers sound.

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See the complete review for the NSMT Loudspeakers Model 50/Jamaica Active Speaker System.

Mel Martin

Mel spent most of his life working in television journalism in Ohio, Florida, the BBC in London, and in Seattle, WA. He won a few EMMY awards along the way which most people mistake for bowling trophies. Being around all those expensive monitors frustrated him when he got home to his threadbare TV and stereo, so he began to improve things, brand by brand, upgrade by upgrade. He’s got a lovely OLED TV now, flanked by Magnepan 3.6r speakers, and a Home theater with an Epson Projector and Focal speakers. Also scatted about the house are HiFiMan headphones, and 6 Sonos Connect devices that are spraying his rather large music collection from room to room. Other equipment is from Oppo, Sony, Aurender, PS Audio and Emotiva. Musical tastes range from Classical to Jazz to New Age to classic Rock and Roll. Mel has written a biography of film producer Samuel Bronston (El Cid, King of Kings) and is working now on a second film related book. He resides in Arizona where, when he’s not adjusting his home theater, he dabbles in landscape and astronomical photography.