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Reference Series High Performance Three-way Floorstanding Loudspeakers

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Product Review (submitted on November 20, 2015):

I give these 5 stars based on performance for the price. You can spend a lot more money for the same level of quality but there is no need. If you're a true audiophile with the budget to support that, then these aren't for you. Perhaps Magneplanars are what you're looking for. But for the rest of us, there is tremendous bang-for-the-buck here. These are clearly meant primarily for home theater applications and they do very well here. Occasionally I'll listen to music with these as well. Once I broke them in, I played some classical, pop, and techno music. They faithfully reproduced the sound stage and were relatively clear. The 8" woofers that are downward firing are crossed over pretty high apparently because I removed the jumpers and just fed the woofer. I could plainly hear dialog coming from them. So that seems a bit odd to have mid-bass frequencies heading toward the floor. I would not consider these to be sub-woofers and I think you still need a quality sub to reproduce the LFE track for home theater or provide low bass with music. But all-in-all these are a great value for most of us who know better than to buy Bose, but don't really want to spend an order of magnitude more money to get into true audiophile level reproduction. I would highly recommend them. -Verified purchase from Fluance trusted store.