Good bass, beatiful highs, good mids. In other words, everything that comes out of them sounds good. Aggressive price when not bought through Crutchfield.

Grills are next to impossible to remove. This is such a pretty speaker. I have never seen a tweeter that looks so gorgeous.

This speaker is a tremendous value and i highly recommend it if you have half a brain and are smart with your money. If you are an Audiophile and want to spend all your hard earned cash on something that is unintelligibly better, go for it. I hope you go broke.
This speaker has more bass than the AR15, as one would expect, and it caries the same beautiful highs. It is well built, with a hefty weight (for its size) of 16 lbs each, well-crafted speaker wire terminals, and a grill that is not ever going to come loose. I am using this speaker in conjunction with the AR17, ARS300, and AR4C for a superb surround sound system. These speakers blend together like they are pieces of a puzzle (yes, a very easy 6 piece puzzle). All of these are running off an Onkyo TS-DX676 receiver. I recommend getting these speakers while you can at this price. I got mine off Ebay, but they are available at several online stores for a little over 200 bucks.

Similar Products Used:

AR17, Ozarka Natural Spring Water

The AR15 speaker from Acoustic Research is designed as a midpriced, high-performance bookshelf speaker. At $205/pair, it offers many of the attractive traits of the three-way loudspeakers of the Hi-RES series, but with less bass response and a lower price. A 6-1/2-inch woofer and a 1-inch tweeter head off the internal package. According to AR, the combination of the woofer design and the concave cone ensures extended linear frequency response of 38Hz-23kHz. The AR15's transducers are magnetically shielded for use in a surround-sound system.

The AR17, which has the same tweeter and 3.2-kilohertz crossover point, and a woofer that, while 1-1/4 inches smaller than the AR15's, is identical in composition. The AR17 also has a slightly smaller cabinet, but its bass response is rated at 40 Hz -- only 2 Hz less than the AR15 -- so the two speakers should be pretty close in performance.Acoustic Research AR15 Bookshelf Speakers ($204.99 Pair)

looks good, quality solid build

the sound-

These speaker are the biggest disapointment in the history of speakers. I anxiously awaited these for 2 weeks, only to be disapointed the second I turned them on. One of the tweeters wasn't even hooked up. Placed side by side with my Polk RT25's I continued to switch back and forth between the two. On music and DVD's both the Polks blew the AR15's away!
There is poor bass and the treble is very weak. It sounds like they have a frequency reponse of 200Hz to 10,000Hz. Absolutely terrible. When placed next to the RT55's, the AR15's sounded like the biggest waste of $225 bucks ever.
Currently www.crutchfield.com is selling the AR15's for the same price as the RT55's. Don't be a fool and be sold on "diamond bla bla" tweeters. Buy the Polks!!!
Anyone want to buy my AR15's so I can afford another pair of Polks?!
I have to give them some stars. They are awsome looking speakers. What's with the metal cone?!

Similar Products Used:

Polk RT25, RT55