Home theater yes, they sound great and have excellent components to match as far as the center speaker and bipolar rears. Music (which I think is the important part) No. These speakers sound tubby and and artifial. Not as bad as tyhe Legacy Focus but bad. If you're into movies, I say audition them. If you're a music lover, stay away.

Geat thunder from the powered subs.

Great speakers for HT or music.

Need lots of power to drive them really loud.

Highly recomended.
Got a great deal on these from United Audio---the 2002 is being closed out for the new 2002TL. Pick up the new 20002TL , if you can afford it---the 2002TL adds two additional drivers per cabinet.

I have had the opportunity to own several different brands of audio components over the past seven years. In regards to speakers, they have included: B&W, Infinity, Mirage, JBL, Bose, Polk and now the Definitive Technology BP2002. Prior to purchasing the 2002 speakers, I auditioned: Alon, Aerial, Martin Logan, Magnaplanar, Boston Acoustics, Jamo, NHT, N.E.A.R., Paradigm, Pinnacle, PSB, Snell, and Vandersteen. I acknowledge that some of the above speakers I find to be more musically accurate, such as B&W, Alon, and Martin Logan for example. However the issues that leveraged my decision, hinged on how I would use the speakers, in this case 50% for Home Theater and 50% for two channel music, how they sounded and of course my budget. Because the speakers would be also used as mains in a Home Theater setup I needed to consider a sub-woofer, since more and more manufacturers are offering speakers with built in subs for a decent price, I and any one else interested in speakers should too, sought out to audition speakers designed as such. I eventually narrowed down the competition between a pair of Infinity Overture's, also with built in subs, and the 2002. A dealer for Definitive listed them for $2000.00, I negotiated them down to a little under $1500.00, not bad considering the bipolar design and a build in 12" 125watt sub, in each speaker. The Infinity Dealer wanted $3000.00 for the Overtures, my reaction to this is simple, no way are the Overtures worth over $1000.00 more than the Definitive Technologies, not in construction or sound quality. So, I bought the Definitive Technology speakers. The bass on the 2002 speakers will go very deep, as deep as any or most stand alone subs. The bass is tight and accurate, very natural sounding. The High Frequencies are very accurate and do a very good job on male and female vocals and instrument only tracks. With some work, biwiring and placement the midrange can be brought to a decent level, the mid is the only weak spot on the 2002. Also a excellent and large soundstage can be obtained with some tweaking. Highly Recommended!

A $900 per speaker, unshielded theater speaker; which is what I consider the 2002 with audio system choices from
Martin Logan and Magnapan sounding so nice in the same
price range. These puppies need to be over 18" away from a
monitor to avoid magnetic distortion.

They just missed on a few engineering points. Not good
enough for Audio only (at the price), missing shielding for
A/V.

Martin-Logan Aerius i or DT 2002's? Ah, all my decisions should be between such wonderful,thoroughly musical speakers. I picked the DT's and have no regrets, except for having to be apart from them for eight hours every work day.

Stephen has DEFINITIVEly been on Crack! Your speakers are louder because you've got bombs blasting every 10 seconds in Bosnia. So remember while Claudia delivers for only one man, the BP2002s deliver for everyone so inclined.
Here's to your bomb shelter,
Peace, Mike Morrow

Overall the best bang for the buck.Build quality,performance.

Having to adjust bass if you want to call this a weakness,other than that none.

Location,location,location,as with any speaker.These produce some very good sound all around.Anyone who complains about Difinitive tech's 2002's should have a hearing test asap.

Similar Products Used:

Rogersound Labs SPEEDSCREEN 2,VANDERSTEEN 2CI,TRIAD SYSTEM SEVEN.

I biamping the D. 2002 with Golden Tube SE-40 runing the midrange & teeter, and my old SAE-2300 amp. runing the subwofer. I have a cheap preamp Music Finelity X-Pree. Speaker cables are from Kimber 8-TC. Interconnector cables are PBJ also from Kimber. My CD player is old from Luxman DX-103 and I also run it w. X10-D CD upgrade from Music Finelity.
The 2002 really sounds great. it is very smooth, musical, transperence. Depth is not quit perfect, but you can not leave my room that easy. Folks, the I describe very simple, but the important think is you have to try it yourself to believe it. We all have diffirent tastes, don't we!!!

I've never heard these speakers but I can tell from Def Tech's adsfor them that they sound awful.
I hate them!

As you can tell, Bob is an idiot... Judging a product he's never listened too.