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These sound pretty decent, best at delivering the mid-range and lows you want. But they are really best paired with other speakers that will deliver the highs and an added powered subwoofer to enhance the base. Not as good as standalone speakers, great as part of a surround sound system. For what I am using them for, they deliver what I want. At the recommendation of a YouTuber, I put them on foam mats. Even better. These sit near the floor (6 inches off on a wire shelf), with a Yamaha powered subwoofer in the corner, and DUAL bookshelf speakers on the top shelf above. Sitting about 15 ft away, everything sounds good. Very big for bookshelf speakers, and 3-way too boot. Most bookshelf speakers are 2-way, and smaller.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I've purchased many of these but retrofit the 8" driver/speaker with a Selenium (by JBL) and replace the midrange with a high end Dayton dome tweeter. I disconnect the regular tweeter and all crossover components, adding a standard capacitor on the new dome tweeter for crossover around 3K. This becomes a high end two way speaker. Needless to say, I buy these only for the enclosure/box because nobody else makes a bookshelf speaker with an 8" speaker. I should mention that the standard components are okay but I wanted something with a lot more punch. It seems most of the speaker manufacturers have abandoned enclosures for 8" and 10", leaving a tinny sounding system and gaping hole in midrange frequency response even when using a good subwoofer. Sorry guys but I grew up with real speaker companies like Cerwin Vega that would crush what's being pushed on the market today! It seems everybody wants to make things cheap today, but for the money, you can buy these cabinets and make a superior system with better components.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
These speakers sound pretty good in stock form but even better with some mods. For more bass (a lot more) you can add two bass reflex ports (available from speaker parts stores) placing one above and between the mid and tweeter and the other below and between mid and tweeter. I found the mid and tweeter too bright and padded them down with several 5 watt cement resistors in series, adding 18 ohms to the tweeter (3 x 6 ohms) and 12 ohms to the mids (3 x 4 ohms). A big improvement. I also removed the two factory crossover caps mounted on the speaker wire cup, purchased two Infinity Reference 2000.4 crossovers and installing them. A gigantic improvement and can shake the house with bass! The factory setup inverts polarity of the midrange driver for improved stereo image which I avoided with the new crossovers.Read full review
AS A STAND ALONE SPEAKER NOT SO HOT AS A COMPANION TO JBL 2600'S MUCH BETTER FOR AS LITTLE AS I SPENT ON THEM, WELL; YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR THEY SOUND GOOD UNTIL YOU COMPARE THEM WITH BETTER SPEAKERS IN THIS CASE JBL 2600 THE YES OR NO QUESTIONS IN THE REVIEW CAN'T TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY LIKE IS IT A GOOD VALUE THAT WOULD DEPEND ON WHAT YOU SPENT ON THEM FOR EXAMPLE IF I BOUGHT THESE AT BEST BUYS FOR $149.99 I WOULD BE TAKING THEM BACK ASAP I PAID A LITTLE MORE THAN HALF USED THERE IN LIKE NEW CONDITION WOULD I BUY THEM AGAIN NO I WOULD NOT THERE ARE A LOT OF BETTER SPEAKERS OUT THERE FOR THE MONEY
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I've had these speakers about three weeks now and I like them. They have a rich clear sound and a nice range. While I'm no expert to my ears they sound pretty good.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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