When I was in college, it seems like someone was always throwing a house party.  For those of you who are not familiar, it is a pretty basic concept.  You throw open the front door of your house, condo, apartment, dorm room, or wherever you live; set out some refreshments; crank the music and wait for the people to show up…and they will.  It is kind of like The Field of Dreams.  If you throw a party, they will come.

The problem, back in those days of the early 1990’s was the sound system.  Most of us had music centered around a CD player in the living room. Head over to the back rooms or bedrooms and the music faded away.  There was simply no way to pipe the music into other rooms throughout the house.  This meant that despite the fact that the whole house was available, almost everyone tended to congregate in one or two adjoining rooms.  Man do I wish I had a way to connect those back rooms to my music.  Man do I wish I had the Eos Wireless system back then.  Let’s take a closer look and see how it could have helped those long ago parties.

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In case you have not been able to tell from my plethora of media player and headphone reviews, I am something of an audiophile (heck, I was even a DJ at parties and weddings in college).  I have built my home theatre system over the past couple of years, carefully selecting each component.  The one thing which has always eluded me, however, are quality speakers which will fit in my space without sacrificing sound quality.  I have a set of bookshelf speakers that I got in law school.  They were cheap…and they sound cheap.  Not terrible, but nothing to write home about.  They are small speakers and they offer a relatively small sound.  And yes, over ten years later, they are badly in need of replacement.  So, I was extremely intrigued when we received an email from Orb Audio asking for a review of their Mod 2 speaker system.

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