We admit we're not generally excitable types, but even we were moved to pull out the hyperbole thesaurus when we got our ears around the new Jamo R909 loudspeakers.

The bare specs (full range, three-way open baffle dipole speakers with two 15-inch woofers, a 5 ½ -inch midrange and one-inch tweeter, offering a frequency range of 25Hz to 30kHz with frequency crossovers at 250Hz and 2kHz) really don't do justice to how good these things sound. The best way to describe them is to say that hearing them in action is not like listening to music through speakers at all; it's like being in the room as the music is being made.

And that's got to be worth the $20,000 or so these wonderful speakers will cost you.

More: Jamo website