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Price Paid:
$299.00
from Fluance.com Summary:
I ordered the SV-10 along with the AV-SC center channel and the SX-6 bookshelf surrounds. The SV-10 are, to me, very impressive. I have them hooked up to an Onkyo 504 receiver with 75 watts per channel. I got these as an upgrade from a Logitech digital computer speaker system with 3" surrounds and a 10 in sub. Those were great for a while but I finally realized that the sound was unbalanced, so when I upgraded I decided to go all out with some of Fluance's higher end products.
I've given them the 15-20 hour break in period. The highs are not too harsh, and sound very good. This is where I can tell a big difference from the other speakers I've used. The mids are pretty much dead on, giving just enough low midrange to have a small thump and enough high mid to make guitar riffs sound really good. The 8" woofers are quite impressive. Considering I'm going from a 188 watt powered 10" sub to 8" woofers from a 75 watt per channel receiver I was expecting bass to be a little lacking. Well I was wrong. While they aren't quite as room shaking and powerful at the 10" sub I'm used to, the bass is much more clean and tight sounding, not boomy. And whereas the other sub made a dead spot in the middle of the room where there wasnt much bass, the bass in the SV-10's fills up the room much better.
The end result is a very balanced sound. Good lows considering there is no powered subwoofer. Good highs coming from the silk dome tweeters. Good mid ranges coming from the 5" mids. I also have them biwired but I didnt hear all that much of a difference. The speakers are very visually appealing and look very nice next to my entertainment center. They also have very good stereo imaging compared to what I'm used to. When listening to music and movie soundtracks you can really tell how the music was mixed into the right and left channels because some sound comes from one side and some comes from the experience.
I use the speakers about 70% music and 30% movies. The music is almost exclusively rock. I've also tested them with rap although that's not what my usual listening is. With movies the sound is very immersive and the speakers manage to make the soundtrack and effects sound like they are coming from three feet to the outside of the speakers, which is a nice effect to me. I'm am not dissapointed in any sense with these speakers. Strengths:
Great sound reproduction. Good bass. I was surprised at the level of bass produced from a speaker system without a dedicated powered subwoofer. Very balanced sound. Good quality construction. Visually appealing. They can get really sound so that you will have short term hearing loss if you try. No distortion unless you raise the EQ to unnatural levels where bass gets bad. At a normal EQ these speakers will not distort at least as far as I've found. Weaknesses:
Highs are harsh before they are broken in, but smooth out a great deal after the break in period. Biwiring didnt make as much of a difference as I was hoping. The 8" woofer isn't exposed like the other speakers are so I cant see it thump, but now I'm just looking for weaknesses. Similar Products Used:
Nothing similar really. I had a digital Logitech speakers system that was 500 watts RMS but these SV-10s arent even in the same class. the Logitechs are what I am comparing them to though, along with my uncle's Fluance AV-HTB system which my system trounces.
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