How well would these fill out the middle register? I have very nice small bookshelves and a very strong sub, but my mid range is lacking.
1512911
In my opinion, these speakers have a very good mid range. I have some Infinity Towers, so I use these as rears, but if I didn't have the towers, these would be very good clear, and open speakers with a sub. I listened to a lot of book shelves, but to me these had the best mids of all. Very clean.
1519993
These are specifically made for high end home theatre in the compact category and I am very happy with them. I have three mounted on the wall with my tv as a pair of fronts and centre channel. But you will also need a sub (Dynamo 700) and a different pair of rears (motion2s). Once set up and broken in, it sounds amazing!!!
928499
personally i think (one) should have towers that go down to or close to 20Hz and no sub, or bookshelves (to save space) and a sub that goes down to about 20Hz. (Yamaha YST-SW315) i do not see what good big towers are for anymore if you are going to have a sub and then set your receiver to cut low frequencies to 80Hz and higher anyway? keep in mind humans are only supposed to be able to hear between 20Hz and 20Khz. and check your receiver for your cross over settings. mine for instance are 50, 80, 100, 150Hz. use that as a guide to how low you want your bookshelves to go. my books cut off at 50Hz, so i dont want to use the 50 (to not put too much of a load on my books thus making them better midranges. i can use 80 and 100 but not 150, because my sub stops at 140Hz. if your receiver has more and smaller increments for the cross over than mine you will have more options for your bookshelves. my polks (RTi4) go down to 50Hz and sound pretty good and deep at moderate volumes, about the same as the 12" towers they replaced.... but if you want to turn it up to "louder" volumes they become a bit more stressed, not as accurate and want to distort. which is why i got the sub. i got the books in the first place because i was getting sick of the amount of space the towers took up (4 - 12"woofers) the polk TSi200's look like the best "match" for the 'Polk Cs20 center', but the RTi4's are only missing a few less in lower freq. (which you might not need anyway due to the Xover thing) and has 1 5.25" 'driver' where the TSi has 2. the RTi4 is a little more than HALF the price of the TSi200's. ---also keep in mind among all these types of reviews, 'taste in sound' is subjective.---
643088
It would be enough to power them, I would recommend going slightly higher with the output though just to compensate for the third sub. However, I don't recommend doing three Type R's, I would either go with 2 or 4 because I've heard people run into problems with running an odd number of subs instead of an even number. Hopefully this helps.
1479372
depends. personally they do not throw enough power for the space I am in. But the space is huge & I AM using them as SECONDARY front speakers (for a total of 4) - so, they are a bit weak but if your space is small enough they should suffice for front speakers. Crisp sound, all "highs" but I'm sure your rear speakers and sub take care of the lows. Hope this helps.
1330381
If you're not looking to mount them too high off the ground these stand should do you just fine. My speakers are pretty heavy for unpowered ones and the were fine. So all depends in your usage situation if you want them at maximum height in the middle of an open stage, where there is wind, maybe a bad buy, otherwise I'm extremely happy with them for the price I paid.
251777
If your looking for an in wall sub try home theatre direct, they have great products. If not try the klipsch sub 12. I have both and they perform great with the quintet system and deliver great bass. I have two sets of quintets in my home. Hope this helps
37230
I'm not sure about mids, but mid bass will should be all right. I using them as sub-woofers for HTB system 2 of them. Work just fine for HTB boxes.
1726076
They really are not designed to be placed in a bookshelf, in my mind I would use the L810 for a bookshelf placement and I think you would be much more happy with the end result (including the price difference).
710873
The minimum cu ft of air space per sub is .70. You won't get the deepest bass out of them, more punchy and tight.
662540
I have a small room with limited space, so I got 2 small but powerful speakers. I purchased the Micca MB42 Bookshelf speakers for $60. They're super inexpensive, and I just love them and their sound.
709471
I love this speakers. I have been a fan of these for about 20 years. I think the middle and high range are very good specially considering their price. I think that the set up you are describing will not achieve what I think you are trying to do. If you are thinking of having some kind of background music but not very serious about it perhaps this set up will do the trick. If you are thinking of having people over for a bbq or party I believe your sound will be weak and lacking base. Another issue of concern (depending of your set up) is the distance of your speakers to the source of your music. If the distance is too great, the quality of your sound will suffer. I would recommend using larger speakers. Other wise your sound will just be plain weak and get lost in the open. I would suggest speakers with an 8" woofer or bigger. Hopefully you can set up four of them. Each at a corner pointing down to the space. Hope this helps.
1271778
Two subs is definitely not a waste of money depending on your room. If you have nulls and voids a dual sub setup could help fix that.
2017378
It's definitely not going to take the place of 2 12" speakers. I run 4 of these speakers only powered by my kenwood 4x50w head unit. I do have an 8" infinity sub in the trunk. And it's fantastic! When the sub is turned off it's a very noticeable drop in bass. They may be better powered by a dedicated amp, i would be interested to see how that works as i've been thinking of getting another amp.
920347
I have these set up in a surround schema, but would not recommend them as a "main" set of speakers unless your space is constrained to bookshelves. These are actually decent speakers, especially for the price point.
527399
I am using a Line 6 Pod500X pushed through a Behringer and a Crate into the cabinet and it sounds really great. Mids and Highs are excellent but speakers (or cabinet design) don't push the lows as well as my other cabinets.
2031691
Thanks for the reply. I see your point about hooking the sub through to the main speaker outs and then to the L/R fronts. I guess that would be pushing it quite a bit. Thanks for the tips on the powered sub. At $80, I can't really go wrong. One last thing: If I wanted to forgo the rear speakers, could the sub be hooked up to the surround outs or am I letting my complete ignorance show here? Thanks again.