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Review 2 of 23
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from Thrift Store Summary:
I found these speakers at a local thrift store, needed another pair of speakers, and went with these. I tested them in my car, but only using the subwoofer line, and it gave me wierd results, as if the internal wires were not fixed together correctly. consequently, i got the speakers for free (I knew people that worked at the store) and was surprised that they worked correctly when I brought them home. Today I was amused at the findings of their only point of sale is through scam artists. If you look into the port tube, you can see what looks to be acoustical foam, however when I removed the woofer I found that the color was merely paint that was painted around the area of the panel visible through the port. Not just the salespeople were scammers! The woofer's magnet was absolutely tiny for a 12", and oddly the cone was translucent, which has become popular in contemporary car subwoofers. "1993" was stamped on the back panel. The tone knobs on the face give static when i move them, but not if left alone. I ran some frequency range tests and its really fun to give this woofer a 6hz signal, its excursion is rather large. The foam surround on the woofer was still in great shape after these 11 years. I just did a comparison of these speakers to my bose bookshelf speakers, (two 2" tweeters, one 8" woofer) and found the 3311 much muddier and lacking defined highs. The bass response of the 3311 is impressive for such a crappy woofer though. It seemed that the woofer was covering way too large of a range for a three driver speaker. If they used a higher quality woofer, these speakers might have sounded much better. The four perimeter enclosure pieces are of a decent 3/4" mdf/chipboard, but the rear panel and front baffle are very thin. Also, the front baffle is only secured to the other walls by glue, and is set inside a recessed level (i dont know the proper term for this) so that the front baffel is flush with the sides. This glue has seperated on both the cabinets in the exact same place, and causes a very loud resonance at many lower frequencies. I'm going to put a few screws through the front baffel and the walls to fix this. Note: This will look absolutely horrible, but i'd rather have a bad looking decent sounding speaker than a decent looking bad sounding speaker. The size of these cabinets is enormous, but that's what is needed for a flat QTC when you use cheap woofers. I would not recommend spending more than $30 on a pair of these speakers (used of course), just get some decent bookshelfs and a sub if you want bass. yes, these speakers can get loud, but their sound quality is still bad. I doubt the two seperate tweeters are needed, they could have used one with the crossover system they used. Strengths:
Price (for me)
low bass response Weaknesses:
no acoustical foam, thin enclosure walls, woofer handles way too much range, bad box build. Similar Products Used:
smaller and superior bose bookshelfs.
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