Dual LU43P Speakers – What You Need To Know

Pros:

• Good deal if you are on a budget.
• Sound better than you’d think for the price – but aren’t as good as Polk/Bose outdoor speakers.
• Easy to install and last in rough element conditions.

Cons:

• Lack bass and sound quality as a whole is lacking as the volume goes up.

If you on a budget and looking for some good looking out door speakers for some light back ground music while sipping Mimosas on a warm Sunday morning, these are them.

The Dual LU43P speakers come with everything you’ll need to mount and speakers to your home. But you’ll need some speaker cable and a source component to get the sound there. These are old school, no wireless gadgets found here. And that is why they cost so little.

The casing is UV treated so it won’t wilt in the sunlight.

The 4-inch polypropylene with rubber woofer is paired with a 1-inch polypropylene cone mid-range cone and 20mm piezo dome tweeter. The LU43P model can handle up to 100W of peak power and produce 100Hz – 20kHz. So mounting them on a wall as opposed to a post will help increase the perceived bass response.

If you are interested in more bass than you should check out the two larger versions in the LU line. The LU53P has a 5.25-inch woofer and goes down to 70Hz and the LU63P with a 6.5-inch woofer than goes to 60Hz.

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Reviewed By: 1Inventor
Review Date: December 18, 2008

Summary:
As an audio engineer and an avid speaker builder, they are definitely mass market, consumer speakers. The drivers on the satellites are roughly 25 cents worth, and the woofer, around $5.00. And you’re paying how much? Most of that cost is advertising expenses.

This is not bashing by any means but fact.
You can’t have quality with inferior parts. The knowledge of the parts cost should infuriate any level headed, sane consumer.

You can’t put a Yugo engine into a Corvette body and expect it to perform. S&*t in, S*&t Out.

Bose will not perform frequency plots or divulge other information besides power handling because it would make an informed/knowledgeable customers that their drivers can only go as high as 10 khz (shy of another 10 khz) and only as low as 40 hz. It would also show frequency anomalies that would deter costumers. Instead of educating their consumers, they program them to think ( in this case, not consider specifications ). Specifications are not the entire picture but they tend to represent good engineering.
I would not buy a car just because it looked good, not know what engine is in it and what its capabilities are, to justify its price.

Most consumers have never listened to a good system, and would not know any better. ” Better Sales through Advertising.” So most would buy what the masses(as ill informed) would buy.

If you truly want to know what sounds good, try listening to speakers from companies like Pradigm, Magnepan, PSB, Thiel and the likes…not necessarily to buy, but to have an idea as to what good is. then go back to your bose units and see how you’ve overpayed for them.

Better yet, due to your extreme loyalty to Bose, call to confirm how much the drivers cost, if they will even divulge that info.

They are average speakers that will amaze or satisfy or amaze the average joe.

25 cents each for the satellite speakers, $5.00 per woofer = $12.00 + particle board with laminate, wires and connectors, $18 manufacturing cost being sold for over $380? WOW!

Seriously folks – either you are so brainwahed by Bose, are you are just too cheap to buy a real system.

Strengths:
” Better Sales Through Advertising”

Weaknesses:
” No highs, No Lows, must be Bose.”

Overall Rating
1 of 5

Value Rating
1 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year