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I just did good review on Amazon so same thing to here. I've owned it for about 2 months now and I made no mistake with my choice on this products. I was initially looking for good used B&W speakers and other reputable brand but with my budget and the spec that I want it's limited available on the market what I was looking for. I recently got two Rotel bridged mono power amps which power rating at 150w output and wanted to feed each power amp to each speaker which set up was going to eliminate most of bookshelf speakers so my mains are only without a doubt floor standing loudspeakers. Actually, I never heard of Fluance brand until I started to do research my main speakers and when I found about it, for the price it was well fit and spec are just perfect for my need to hook up to my amps. When I did research no one was giving any negative feedback and that made up my mind to purchase this wonderful items. As I mentioned above, even used bookshelf one from B&W brand would cost more. This Flunce XL7F are $500 come a pair of price is less than used bookshelf but I not saying they are over priced. They are just high demand in used market, of cause floor standing type would be a lot higher. I do not want to call it a budget sp and not want to use words entry level sp, it's actually top on the line in Fluence products and it definitely deserve as excellent and well engineered products. When I first time saw these SP I could not believe how well crafted the cabinets are and all the material they put were really high graded. What I like about the design is they don't put so many crazy woofers at your sight but hide one at the bottom which 8" woofers down firing will reproduce tight, deep and accurate bass( Fluence described it sexiest bass, which sound nice to me really). Well, that will not bring the best sound from the look and sexiness so how about the sound? I have tried many kind of music rock, classical, techno, soul all play nothing come to short. When I listen Evanescence, it just assured me I bought a sweet but powerful speakers. Hayley Westenra song and angelic voice was just make me feel I was floating in the air or gliding in the valley what a natural sound. I listen a lot of Enigma, Linkin Park, old soft rock from 80's 90's, piano notes what a great sound with image that come to live. Can't remember everthing to write though. Yes, the true is it require good amplification so go ahead and choose good amp to drive out of it's best, especially to the music rather than home theater system. Preferably separate system will be the best at least in my case. Even saying max produced products can not be sold at this price, consider to shipping fee a lone it take a big chunk of cost to ratio selling price so I would like to give a lot of credit to the company's working hard and ahh life time warranty too so wish them well all the best. I hope it help everyone and Fluence will keep produce wonderful speakers and even innovate better in the future. Oh, be care with their spike legs it a little short so if you over twist it will come out and your heavy SP will loose balance and might fall so twist it slow, not over do.

I love these speakers. The sound is absolutely amazing. I have them powerd bi amped which keeps the load at 8ohms on my receiver and they have crystal clear highs and the bass is really there. Playing a CD through the Blu-Ray player sounds incredible. I just ordered the center channel for watching TV and hope it sounds as good as the floorstanders. I don't really need it but I really love the speakers and had to add another.

Absolutely fantastic. Great sound - especially for music. For movies, you definitely want an additional center speaker (and a sub-woofer) as the sound is a bit unbalanced in movies. Especially dialogs are a bit faint compared with the rest of the sounds - I am really glad they have added a center speaker in the XL line now - on my "order" list for next month.

Best speakers I have never heard, Excellent performance , I love them so much . High recommend.

Worth every cent...

I bought these on sale when they were first released at a rediculously low price. Although they aren't the powerhouse of my Cerwin Vega AT-12's, the purity of the sound is far superior. At low volume you get a full, rich sound with warm bass, full midrange and crisp highs while still carrying on a morning coffee conversation. At a reasonable, "high-middle" volume the bass really comes alive. It pounds pretty good, with no distortion and a strong solid feel. The clarity of the mids and highs remain true, and a conversation at this level is acheivable, but requires a dedicated effort. Fully crank these baby's and they fall a little short of stellar. The bass will break down a little, however the midrange and highs remain true to form. The build quality is nothing short of amazing. These speakers look better than some high end units with price tags of $1800 to over $2000 locally. They arrive so well packaged I swear they could just throw them off the plane while flying over my house and they would survive the trip. So if you want to damage your hearing and blow the odd window out, then these speakers are not for you, but for the audiophile enthusiast looking for a speaker system that offers high quality sound reproduction at an incredible value, then I challenge anyone to find a better value than these.

Before buying these XL7F's i had purchased a pair of AVFR's and i thought those were the best sounding speakers i have ever heard under $500 and i only paid $150 for the pair, Fluance i don't know how you do it but these XL7F's are simply awesome. and for under $500 insane. build quality is top notch. when i purchase my center channel ill have the best sounding 5.1 system around and for around a $1000 keep up the good work fluance. happy return customer.

I have had these speakers for several months. I originally bought them as a set of 'cheaper' speakers for my cottage where we have weekend crowds of people who love to listen to music of all genres during the day and watch movies at night. First, I was astonished at how quickly they were shipped, it was only two days after I ordered them online that UPS was in my driveway. Second, as a previous reviewer mentioned, these suckers are substantial and by that I mean big and solid. They were double boxed, extremely well wrapped so my reaction out of the gate was really positive. I didn't want to let nice boxes and quick delivery influence me however, so I remained...skeptical...after all these are really inexpensive speakers. When I unpacked them my expectations were exceeded again as these are really nicely finished. I would classify them as furniture grad cabinetry, very nice effect with the black piano fronts and the connection hardware on the backs are as solid and heavy as the overall speaker itself. Ok, quick delivery, professionally packed and they look great... So, what about sound? I was very careful through the first 10 hours using them to listen to music quietly and watch TV. I was driving them at home using a Denon 1913 thinking this would be a wise move...i.e. very controlled during the break in period so that they would not get damaged by over exuberant boys cranking them up listening to AC/DC CCR amongst others. Yes, they should get their own music but that's a different topic. The sound seemed surprisingly crisp and clear through the first 10 hours and the bass was as described in the CNet review - that being aggressive. Since the 10 hours ended I have put these speakers through their paces. I can only say this...my expectations have now been exceeded on all fronts. After really pushing them hard both while listening to music and watching movies they are better than I ever expected...and have not and will not move to my cottage. The speakers I had at home (more expensive) have since been taken to the lake and XL7F's will stay right here. I just can't wait for the matching centre and surrounds to be released as I am quite certain they will remain here as well where we can hear them every day, and the remainder of my current 5.1 system will head north. I can say without hesitation that for the price you (or anyone else for that matter) will not find better value in a speaker and importantly, in getting that value you will not give up a bit of sound quality... In fact, and I say this with the utmost confidence, after you get over how nice they look you will be just as astonished as me at just how good they sound.

I've had these speakers about 3 months. About a month before I bought these, I bought a pair of Polk LSI-15s, which were formerly 3X the price of the XL7Fs. The XL7F is clearer, with even less smear and hangover than the LSI-15s. Like another reviewer, I've returned to stereo. The sound is awesome. I still haven't bi-wired these, which will, I'm sure, sound even better (if that's possible). This is my third set of Fluance speakers, and is the best I've heard to date, I've owned about 25-30 other speaker systems over time ... some esoteric, some well known and great sounding. But these are the most natural and detailed I've heard to date. They are a steal at their advertised price. My associated equipment is an Emotiva processor, Emotiva 5-channel (200 wpc all channels driven) power amplifier, and a subwoofer,

In short, these are great sounding, high quality speakers that are excellent value. I bought them on sale so they were a particularly good deal. I wish Fluance didn't bump their direct prices up a bit just so they could offer sales, but that's their marketing strategy for now... Before I bought the XL7Fs I was wondering how they sounded. The specs looked good but that never tells the whole story. I had borrowed a friend's Fluance speakers for a few years and replaced them with Polk Audio R30s a while ago when I had to give them back. I remember at the time the highs, mids, and lows of the Fluance speakers sounded better than their replacements. Now that I've had the XLF7s for two weeks I think I've broken them in and listened to them enough to offer a semi-objective review. I've used them almost exclusively for listening to music (but a few movies), only in stereo (no surround or centre channels), mostly without my powered subwoofer, and at moderate volumes. Imaging and clarity are very good. Voices sound rich, natural and in the room (subject to the recording quality). I'm sure if I compared them to speakers costing $1000 more there would be further subtle improvements, but the XL7Fs sound so good, I can't justify paying that much more for a negligible improvement, or paying the same amount for something that sounds inferior. These speakers are so good they allow me to hear subtle differences in how albums have been recorded and mastered. The bass response is full and (for the most part) smooth and probably go as low as the specs say. The bass goes so deep, there's almost no need for a subwoofer, although having one helps the extreme lows (5-string bass, low synth sounds, percussion hits) sound more punchy. The exception to the smooth bass response, and really the only flaw (more of a quirk) is a little bass boost around 200hz that stands out only when I listen for it. I'm guessing it's an artifact caused by the tuned bass port. Above and below this boost, the low frequencies are smooth and sound great. This little boost is subtle, not annoying, and only noticeable when I listen closely to a bass instrument note-by-note. I've thought of plugging the port to see if it makes a difference, but it's so minor, I can't be bothered. When I crank the volume (which, unfortunately isn't that often) the bass remains quite powerful and well-balanced in relation to the higher frequencies. Whatever distortion may be present at high volumes is lower than any distortion caused by the acoustics of my living room. Final things worth mentioning are: shipping was fast but the outer box was beat up. These look really nice and are nicely finished. There are no visible or audible flaws given they're made in China. I'd give them 5 stars if the bass response was 100% flawless (really making them indistinguishable from $$$$ speakers) and the shipping was a little more gentle.

I've had these speakers for about 4 days, I got them for an absolute steal on a promotional sale for $300. There is no way Fluance made money selling these speakers to me for that price, they lost money, so as a thankyou I will write about them and let people know what they are like. For the price they are asking a little under $500 they are an absolute steal. There is nothing anywhere you can buy of this quality for that much money. They look good, the piano black of the fronts matches with my TV while the cherry/mahogany finish matches with my furniture, they look high end. The white drivers are a nice touch, they add a good looking contrast that doesn't overpower, just makes them classy, they took time making these look right for your living room. They are big, if you have a wife you might want to buy them first and tell her when they are in your house, because otherwise she will tell you to get BOSE. They also require good amplification. Fluance rates them as 4ohm 80-200 Watts. I think 80 is a tad high but I think I they give that rating because they aren't expensive speakers to buy, so the people that buy them probably don't have expensive equipment, and if you run them with a cheap amp you may damage them and blow up your amp (and since there's a lifetime warranty that can't be good for business). Manufacturers also giving wildly high specs for pieces of crap amp, a general rule of thunmb is to make sure an amp is rated for at least two cahennels between 20-20000 khz (not 1 channel at 1KHZ) with a distortion rate of around 0.08. If your amp does that with 80 watts and weighs 20lbs or more you are most likely going to be fine (it's tough because manufacturers stop rating for 4ohm speakers... I've got my eye on the Harman Kardon 3490, which at 150 watts per channel 4 ohm steady and around $300, looks like the one to get). As for the sound, well... It's weird, I have albums that I've always thought were recorded badly as they sounded subdued on my speakers, for instance I have Gomez "Liquid Skin" and Gomez "Bring it on".. to me liquid skin sounded alive and bring it on sounded flat and subdued, plugging the same album into these speakers, Bring it on is amazing, to the point I've never heard it before, Liquid skin sounds the same. Maybe this is something to do with the "loudness war" that recording engineers are engaged in, I don't know, but it is a treat to go back and listen to albums I've always thought lacked oomph and hear them properly. Another good one is Bebel Gilbertos tanto tempo, it's like she is in the room singing, I've listened to that album 5 times in the last 4 days, I can't get enough. These speakers bring out everything in the music, you can hear people talking at the start of songs. There is also phenomenal seperaration in instruments, each instrument seems like it occupies a different space to the other, an effect I've never heard with anybodys setup, sure it probably exists, but hey, I'm shopping for $500 speakers... A brilliant sound stage too. Since I plugged these in I've literally spent every free hour I've had listening to music, probably upsetting my neighbours. The bass is great, I actually turned it down a couple of decibels in order to not annoy my neighbours... It isn't boomy tricked out honda bass, it's the bass the artists wanted you to hear. Yes in short order these speakers are phenomenal, you do hear the brushes on drums bouncing off. The build quality is very high, I'd give it a 9 out of ten, only saying that because I notice the screws in the tweeter were't exactly parallel on my right speaker, not a big deal unless you are a little OCD like me, other than that these do not look like cheap speakers, they look like speakers you see in high lifestyle mags in setups you've never seen let alone can afford. I honestly don't know how Fluance actually make any money. obviously no money goes to promotions or advertising, the money goes to the speakers and their profit margins must be razor thin. They're probably relying on word of mouth, which makes sense as when you get something this good for so cheap you want top tell everyone.I had a 5.1 system before (actually the AVHTB+) which I liked it a lot and which is why I got these, but now I realise that there is no reason for surround sound, surround sound is a gimmick that is there to make up for quality 2.0. If you have 2 good towers and a good amp that is more than you need. If you are considering buying these I'd say stop thinking and pull the trigger, you won't be sorry.