A great review of the RL by the best car writer out there. The lede:

I was an audiophile in college. Incorrigible, really. I shouldn't have been allowed within 100 yards of an audio.

It gets better from there:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1

 

Good find.

 

 

best review ever!

 

...stop the presses, BOSE engineers (oh wait..they don't have those. Marketeers then) have invented the "crossover".

I wish Honda would go with another audio company. Bose is such a joke.

It looks like SACD is winning the multichannel disc format war. Any chance next year's RL will be able to read multichannel SACDs too?

 

I just can't take anyone too seriously when 3/4 of the article is spent on the stereo system and the rest of it is a rehash of Acura marketing materials. Where did that 0-60 in 6s come from?

 

you know I was thinking the same exact thing! I did not want to say anything thinking people might get on me because I insulted one of "the best automotive journalists in the world". This review has come out WAY to late and all it seems like is a marketing ploy for Bose Engineering and a reworded C&D review. And I was thinking the same thing about 6 seconds, although that'd be great (Come to think of it, I believe C&D estimated 6 for an MT RL a while back).

 

I only wish. I have an SACD player at home and absolutely love it!

 

Meh, if I want specs I'll ask you guys. But he sure is a stylish writer. Check out some of his other stuff:
http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...-home-highway1

I think he's lived up to that Pulitzer he got last year, don't you?

 

I think style and substance are mutually exclusive in this case. I saw this article when I was googling for Acura news and didn't feel it was worthy to share for the very same reason that biker points out...it's a review of the stereo system, not the car.

 

Still, it's a well written article. No arguing with that.