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Summary:
Exceptional build quality, great punchy bass and extended highs that breathe! Mid Range is forward and crystal clear but does not upset the overal balance. These are better suited to Analouge amplifiers and I am using a Pioneer A 70 or my Pioneer A8. I love these things and they sound as good as I remember them to be when they were new. I paid $60.00 for these and it's by far the best $60.00 I have ever spent!!

paindur

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

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Summary:
No need to say how nice they are, but mine have a strange behaviour: the stereo image is better when I cross the cables !
I placed the speakers in the room calculating where they would have the less resonance, but when I move transversally in front of the speakers, there is a "hole".
I checked all the cables, including inside the speakers, but no doubt, the red cable is the red cable, but it sounds better when I connect the two speakers differently.
If someone has an explanation, I woulld be for sure interested to hear it.

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Summary:
very good spaker to listen rock and pop music at home even today. But it's not easy to find them as good conditions. my own hpm 100 is 35 years old and I'm very pleased from both of them.

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Summary:
These speakers are superior to many modern speakers costing hundreds of dollars (sometimes more than $1000)- The mid range rise in presence is to be expected and is present in all multi-driver speakers as a function of their properties in general. The crossover will "hide or reduce this" in some speakers- there are several modifications some quite simple that can be performed to give a flatter response but most ears will not perceive this. Remember sound quality is highly subjective good specs on paper will not necessarily mean good sound and vice-versa. Most people perceive these speakers as producing a very high quality sound stage only bested by the like of Klipsch La Scalsas or such.

Angel_Blanca

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
2.71 of 5, 7.00 votes

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Summary:
This speaker, as setup by Pioneer, sounds really bad. It is harsh, really harsh. I was puzzled about all the positive reviews. Looked online and found very little information on modifications. It looks like the reviewers just like harsh sound.

I was on my own, I already bought this heavy oldies, so, I took them appart to see why it sounded so bad. To my complete surprise the problem is in the crossover. The mid-range capacitor of 4.4uF is wrong making a big void in the sound. I guess the harshness comes from a sort of spectral vacuum? The correct value is between 70 to 100uF. I did one speaker and did an A-B comparison to the other unmodified speaker. The result was dramatic the harshness is gone and the sound is a lot more detailed.

During all this, I tested the HPM super tweeter and found that it produces very little sound. It is hard to even get a measurement of its sound output using top of the line Neutric sound analyzing equipment. I guess it was a gimmick from pioneer just for marketing games. But, it does not matters because the cone tweeter works just fine and does not needs the HPM tweeter help.

I also tried changing the crossover components for newer ones and did not improved at all. Also removing the pots (level controls) do not improve on the sound.

Overall, a bad, harsh sounding speaker that can be transformed into a sweet sounding, full range speaker by just changing the 4.4uF cap to 75uF.