Price Paid:  $100.00 from costco

Summary:
my parents bought these four or five years ago with a pretty pricy yamaha reciever for a sorround sound system that we used for quite awhile. when we got a new tv, none of us felt like setting it up, so it all sat in the room useless for a few months until i decided to take it into my room because i had a P-O-S $50 stereo before. ive had these speakers for about 7 or 8 months in my room, and i would like to buy myself some more expensive ones. i am a sixteen year old boy, ergo i like to blast my music until the windows rattle. the sound is great with them, but the midrange doesnt seem to do a damn thing. plus, when i get it up to where i like it, after about 5 minutes smoke starts to come out of them, sooo we turn them off. it hasnt seemed to damage the sound quality, which, i might add, has never, ever distorted no matter how loud i get them. i would recommend them to anyone not planning to try to rattle windows, but if you like to blast your music, these speakers are not for you.

Strengths:
great sound, great bass

Weaknesses:
no sound from mid range, and they start pouring smoke when they get too loud.

Similar Products Used:
the only similar products ive used are that P-O-S stereo, and my friends dad's thousand dollar speakers, so there is really no comparison between the three.

Price Paid:  $115.00 from Competitionsound.com

Summary:
What caught my attention when I first looked at these speakers was the price. I don't have much money, so I am trying to biuld a pretty good home theater for the lowest price possile. These speakers seemed to be exactly what I was looking for because I needed two main speakers. I decided to go with towers because I purchased a 12" JBL subwoofer. I figured that the subwoofer would provide most of the bass, so if the relatively small 6.5 inch woofers on these speakers weren't that great, I always have my sub.
The bass on the speakers turned out to be great though. i was very impressed. The highs were also great. I was confused because the mid size speaker never made any noise on either of the speakers, but they still sounded great, so I never did anything about it. I would definetaly reccommend these speakers ot anybody because they have the sound quality of many expensive speakers in the same area.

Strengths:
Great sound quality (high and loq freq's)
Very cheap price
Look great cosmetically.

Weaknesses:
Mid range speaker puts out no noise
That's about it.....

Similar Products Used:
Pioneer bookshelf speakers, JVC 8010VBK reciever, JBL 250w, 12" powered sub.

Price Paid:  $100.00 from Costco

Summary:
Stumbled on these at Costco when picking up a DVD player. My old speakers were shot, so for $100 for the pair I took a chance. I hooked 'em up to my new JVC RX-6500VBK and Pioneer DV-C503. They sound much better than I thought they would. The bass response is better than I thought it would be, but still lacking. For my piddly system in a small room, they sound great. The Shrek DVD sounds great on them, as do my CDs. For the money, I think they'd be hard to beat.

Strengths:
Inexpensive, good sound.

Weaknesses:
Weak bass response.

Similar Products Used:
None worth noting.