Speaker Reviews

Polk's DSW Pro 600, the spiritual successor to the much beloved PSW 505 sub, is a powered subwoofer capable of working in both front-firing and down firing modes. The DSW Pro 600 is the most powerful sub in Polk's DSW Pro line. It sports a 12" woofer...

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Performance Build QualityValue Price: $45,993 (reviewed with B15a subwoofer, which has been discontinued)

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Take a bus ride these days or walk down the street and nearly everyone you pass is tuned in to a portable music player.

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Price: $2,400 At A Glance: 40-inch-wide soundbar speaker includes front left, center, and right channels • Surrounds and sub are extra-cost options • Refined sound Stars and Bars and L-C-R Two bars walk into a guy. Sorry to be so gender-specific, but...

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(Originally written by Blackmen/translated from Audiofanzine FR) - How long have you been using it? About three years - Which feature do you like the most / the least? This system does...

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One of the biggest challenges a speaker designer has is making a very compact, low mass speaker sound lifelike. There have been a number of notable "book shelf" designs, like the Rogers LS3/5a and its variants, the Proac Tablette, and the Paradigm...

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They looked sharp decked out in ravishingly beautiful cherry veneers, set off with piano-black panels. Their dazzling finishes and distinctively contoured cabinets were a big improvement over the brand's previous staid boxes. Maybe that's why Boston's...

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Great sounding speakers.....I had a pair of Mission 773e speakers and those sounded great but bass was weak.....so I purchased a pair of Monitor Audio Bronze B4's and was amazed at the low bass response, front and rear ported these speakers handle the...

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The PL3-212 is an impressive subwoofer system that packages cutting-edge style with outstanding performance. If you are bass hungry and want to bring the pain, this is the perfect fix. Sound quality was respectable and output was incredible, but the...

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No beating around the bush. No sugarcoating. I'm just going to cut to the chase-subwoofers in this price range don't get much better than this. I admit, I was a bit apprehensive at first when I opened the box to see the flamboyant sytling of the...

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So when Monitor Audio decided to produce a new flagship line, it were almost conservative in aiming at a price that barely breaks five figures. The new Platinum range, topped by the PL300 at $10,000/pair, hasn't exactly been designed for supermarket...

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The company has six distinct speaker lines, starting with the entry-level DM; next comes the Excite, which features Dynaudio's most affordable tower. The rest of the lines take off from there with Focus, Contour, Confidence, and finally the...

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German products are usually associated with precision performance and high quality. When you think of brands such as Porsche and Mercedes-Benz cars or Rolleiflex cameras, meticulous attention to detail and quality construction are probably the first...

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Price: $999 At A Glance: Tweeter isolated in separate chamber • Aluminum drivers in satellites • Hand-applied piano black lacquer finish Building a Better Satellite Energy has always taken satellite/subwoofer sets seriously. The Canadian speaker brand,...

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KEF's flagship Model 207/2 is a domestic audio speaker matching the standards of a broadcast monitor. It levels with the standard acoustic clarity and precision. They function as floorstander with 4-way bass reflex and crossover frequencies. The KEF...

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totaly amazing was disapointed with the 242s but these are on a diferent level alltogether . baetter than watt puppys

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I have a remark about my preview writing: about the Entry L, I enjoyed very much Madeleine Peyroux, wich is not quite heavy metal (using the Rotel RA 04 amp.) Music is the most important, I think this speakers are good for a wide range of music.

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The Media-210 works exactly as advertised, beaming USB audio over the air to the 2.1 speakers located across the room. The major caveat with using the USB dongle with a laptop is that the laptop NEEDS to use either 802.11a or 802.11n's 5GHz frequency,...

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Johann Sebastian Bach, when asked why the rigidly structured fugue was his favorite compositional form, used to reply that within discipline there is great freedom. With the introduction of the groundbreaking Integrator and SmartSub system, Thiel Audio...

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My lonely battle to establish the satellite/subwoofer set as a respectable speaker category just got a little less lonely. Bob Carver, legendary designer of amps and speakers, has joined me on the space-saving speaker front. Carver first gained fame...

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“i” is for intense. Every audio reviewer thinks back on specific products and sometimes wishes that he or she bought them following the review. For me, one such product was the Polk RT3000p. The two-piece speaker featured a powered subwoofer, with the...

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The Quad LITE speaker system is one of the four best $2k surround rigs I’ve ever heard (the others are in this survey). Its clear, natural sound is incredibly engaging and compelling— enough so that my first two guest listeners asked if the...

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On a different planar. Recorded music is a cozy conspiracy between conventional speaker technology and listening expectations. Most speakers are made of cones and domes, so we've gotten used to their particular dispersion patterns and regard them as a...

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Rocky Mountain high. One of my formative experiences as an audiophile was a visit to Michael Hobson's showroom in a New York Soho loft. This was before Mike started Classic Records. He was selling Avalon loudspeakers and Jeff Rowland Design Group amps...

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