I want to use these in a home theater setup, they will be the primary speakers in about a 20x12 room. Any sound issues, too much space?
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These are very nice small speakers, but they are small speakers and they are limited as such. If you're using them in a home theater application you will need a subwoofer to produce the very low frequencies. You will want to cross them at 80-100 hz. Myself...I prefer to use larger speakers for the main left and right speakers, along with a subwoofer. This will give you much better imaging. However, these would make excellent surround speakers.
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I bought these for work but experimented at home first. I also tested on two Denon Recievers, Denon 3312 and the older 2807 (now at work). First of all your amp should be high current or rated for 6 ohms, (these are 6 ohm speakers), I was surprised how far I needed to turn the volume up on both Denons. At home, room size is about what you have, I was ok with the sound they produced until I tried them with one of my subwoofers, I was blown away! I actually checked to see if my Infinity Beta 50's where playing the music. At work with the old 2807 Denon no sub in a large warehouse co-workers have stopped and commented on how nice the music sounds. Sorry for the long answer, I would say if your reciever can handle 6 ohm and you use a subwoofer you will be happy you bought these.
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I use these in a 2.0 setup in a roughly equal-sized room. They sound fantastic, and produce far more bass than I expected them to be capable of for their 4" driver size.The audio isn't highly degraded based on listening position. For a solid, entry-level setup these are a very good option.
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Dear Steven, three questions to you would be: 1. Will you use a sub-woofer and a center speaker?2. Will you do this and also add two Pioneer speakers for the rear, and 3. will you only use the Pioneers for the front? Actually, all three cases will be fine, if you have more than twenty watts power or so for the fronts and not too many sound absorbing rugs and window curtains. I have found the two Pioneer speakers to do very well with movie dialogue when I got rid (!!!) of my 5.1 receiver!!! I actually enjoy my movies as stereo! What objections this will raise from some! Yours, Churchorganist. Dear Steven, three questions to you would be: 1. Will you use a sub-woofer and a center speaker?2. Will you do this and also add two Pioneer speakers for the rear, and 3. will you only use the Pioneers for the front? Actually, all three cases will be fine, if you have more than twenty watts power or so for the fronts and not too many sound absorbing rugs and window curtains. I have found the two Pioneer speakers to do very well with movie dialogue when I got rid (!!!) of my 5.1 receiver!!! I actually enjoy my movies as stereo! What objections this will raise from some! Yours, Churchorganist.
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These speakers will easily fill a room that size, especially of mounted on stands or shelves--they are deceptively small but powerful.
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For their size they are great speakers with fantastic reproduction. You can overdrive them so be careful.
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Yup most definitely! Our living room is 16X20 too and we have great sound. We just positioned speakers around the room.
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Probably, we have them in a 12X20 room and they are not at full volume, maybe at 1/4 volume.
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See cnet's review: http://www.cnet.com/products/monoprice-10565/I have them in a 13'x15' room and have zero complaints. I can not imagine that they would have trouble in a larger room.
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They will sound very good---not to expect the sound to fill a concert hall--using four of these for your channels will be fantastic--or a two channael receiver like you said "vintage"---I uses mine as rear speakers for my Onkyo.Hope this helps.
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The speakers are great. I guess it depends on how big of an area you will be using it in on whether or not you should buy extra speakers! I suggest you but it. set it up and then decide before you spend more money
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I listen to music through them all of the time and they sound great. I imagine they would be great for monitors if you had the room for them. They are pretty big.
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I wouldn't use them in a large theater room. I think they work great in a room 20'x15'.
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I am quite certain that a small room could handle the speakers. They perform well at low volume for my stereo speakers on my entertainment system. I am using them like bookshelf speakers. You certainly could use smaller speakers in a room that size.
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I would have to agree I have 6 of these in my theatre room for surrounds. They put out good sound. However you would need to try them I think and see.
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Sure! I use these as my front speakers (left and right) and they work very well for a theater setup. As a rear speaker they should do just fine.
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My room is 20x20 and this sub does a wonderful job with music. I don't use it for video or games. Just a guess but I think that if my room were 25x25 I might be looking for a bigger sub. I do totally recommend Polk Audio. Sounds great and excellent customer support when I needed it.
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They will sound very good---not to expect the sound to fill a concert hall--using four of these for your channels will be fantastic--or a two channael receiver like you said "vintage"---I uses mine as rear speakers for my Onkyo. Hope this helps.
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They woould be very bright, crisp and clear and would diffently need a subwoofer. I've always been a Klipsch fan and would recommend something larger for the main speakers if you have the room and the budget but overall these would work really well.
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I have these speakers as Home Theater systems in 2 rooms in my house. They sound excellent to me with real crisp audio with excellent highs and mid range. I am also using them with sub-woofers so I cannot comment on the low sounds. The cavity chamber is designed to increase the lows, so I assume they will be OK for that. Suggest you go listen to them and judge sound quality for yourself.
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These will sound great due to being the largest sized speaker so you'll get full range of sound. The center tweeter is aimable. Placement will depend on how good your surround sound - sounds. I also like the Denon receivers as they autocalibrate the room quite well. But I used the square version of these for my surround sound, and it sounds great. Wish I had spent a little more on the sub.