I recently heard these in Seattle, WA . I have to admit they had me against the wall. I could not reconcile the bass with the size of the speaker. It was as if the musician was in the room with me! Spooky.

I heard these speaker at RMAF in October. The guys pitching them had a sign that said, "The deal of the century." I told them that they should be called, "the STEAL of the century."

The Clue was one of the three or four best speakers at the show, and the others all cost well into five figures. I really couldn't believe the deep, powerful bass coming from these little boxes. The midrange and treble were really detailed and transparent. Overall, these speakers were spot-on accurate and very "organic" in their presentation. The pitch man said that they were trying for frighteningly real sound - and they succeeded.

As a retired school teacher getting by on a pension, I don't have the mere $1500 these things cost. But I'm saving my pennies so I can replace the Advents I've used for 40 years now.

I received a pair of Clues a bit more than a moth ago after hearing them at the RMAF. These are the type of auditory revelation you need to have in your listening room to believe. No superlatives can accurately convey the personal experience with these speakers. Of course, audiophiles have plenty of descriptors for talking about the bass, mids, and highs, and if you just write in all the good stuff here, that would be a correct review.

The claimed bass is down to 28Hz in room. The actual bass, while I haven't measured it, easily plays music with which I am familiar with passages that go down to around 30Hz. So, I haven't tested the very bottom of the claimed range, but I believe it. And the bass is fast, rich, taught, full and correct. No joke.

The mids and highs are totally holographic. That's the best compliment I can think of. They are simply holographic.

The soundstage is as wide as the recording wants it to be. The soundstage depth, while not the speaker's strong suit, is excellent. The imaging is simply excellent.

To give this review a little more balance, I suppose that it's power handling could be greater for some folks who prefer very high volume listening for particular types of music. It has a 150W ceiling which can be reached quickly in a large room (over 2000 cubic feet), playing music with a lot of bass. But if you want to fill a very large room with a high SPL and are playing music with a lot of bass, perhaps you own a disco?

My previous pair of uber-monitors were excellent in most of these categories too, but The Clue takes the previous listening experience to a whole new level. In fact, I can't even remember what my old speaker sounded like now. It's as if my previous pair (which was a very highly praised design) was truncated in every listening aspect when compared to The Clue. I'll not name my previous pair at this time, because I'm trying to sell them. ;-)

The price on The Clue, if you are in the market for high-fi equipment, is only worth mentioning because it is so absurdly low compared not only to the performance you get for the price, but also because The Clue beats the pants off both monitors and floor-standers costing 5x, 10x, 20x more. No joke. Nuff said.

When you do buy a pair of these speakers, pay attention to the recommended set-up: not more than 2" off the wall, correct speaker stand height, and with proper toe-in. They sound merely really good if set-up poorly. But when dialed-in, the result is going to to change the way you think about how much you need to pay for uber-high-fidelity stereo speakers.

These bookshelf speakers without question blow the doors off of anything I have heard to date in their range. The bass is deep and thunderous, and is as good as most speakers way above their price range.