The MRB-1 is the essence of the MRC line distilled into a compact, placement friendly speaker designed to work beautifully in any music lover’s space. Thanks to careful voicing and a front-facing port the MRC-1 is equally at home on a lowboy console, on a shelf, or on a speaker stand. While remaining very placement friendly, the MRB-1 throws an enormous soundstage, and offers the sort of dynamic, low distortion sound that leaves listeners smiling and shaking the heads wonder “how on earth did they do that?”