Speaker great, third party retailer awful
593417
I love this speaker but I am giving it a "1" because I ordered a speaker from a third party retailer and when I got the speaker, it was obvious it was used. All the seals on the box were cut and the speaker did not pair right away as a new one would based on the factory settings.

The retailer would do nothing. And AMAZON REALLY PISSED ME OFF. They "fulfilled" the order. So they unpacked a box from the retailer and could obviously see that the speaker box had been opened, yet the packing ship said the speaker was new. AMAZON SHOULD HAVE CANCELLED THE ORDER AND REFUNDED MY MONEY AT ONCE. But instead, they repacked it and sent it to me indicating it was"new" which they new was not true. After shipping it to me, they said I could return it- I should never have been in that situation. They should never have shipped it to me.

The speaker itself is easy to pair. The volume is excellent. The base is outstanding, but do not place the speaker against a wall- sound comes out of both sides. Against a wall you lose half the sound and make your walls rumble with the bass.  The speaker's all around construction creates an atmospheric sound in such a good way, that if you did know where it was, you couldn't readily locate it.

One thing to note- the volume gets progressively lower over time when using the battery. I keep mine plugged in. It is not heavy, but it is large. I have a Photive Cyren speaker that has lovely quality - not equivalent, but very good, that is 6 inches long and easier to transport. So if you want the UE for home use- perfect. If you want to run around town with it, perhaps look at smaller speaker like the Cyren. Do note about the Cyren- it won't pair with Android devices.
1267762
The Oontz XL packs a ton of sound in a somewhat small package. I primarily listen to hip-hop, electronic, and rock music, and all genres sound incredibly clear and crisp for the price I payed. A $99.99 speaker that could easily compare to the Big Jambox, which I own as well . The sound on this speaker is clearer at higher volumes. Also, bluetooth range is very good, stretching from 40-50 feet with no obstructions in signal. I was pleasantly surprised by this purchase.

UPDATE:
From 5 stars to 1.
The speaker will no longer charge. There is an awful buzz coming from the unit when it is plugged in and running. The fact that the warranty on the website of Cambridge Soundworks is only 30 days, shows they don't stand behind this poorly constructed product. Awful experience, and I'm not the only one complaining.
681203
THIS VENDOR IS TERRIBLE, DON'T BUY WITH THEM!

These headphones sound pretty good, except a little distorted on a higher volume (something to expect with cheap headphones).
Also they don't have a volume wheel, again cheap headphones.

The reason for my bad review though, is that, the only reason why I know how they sound is that I purchased three, and one of them was defective (only sound on the right side).
If I had purchased only one, according to what arrived there was a 30% chance that it would be a defective unit.

Also, there is no direct option to make inquiries to them from the order sumary, you have to search through their store front to find a contact option. And once I did get a reply they asked for the complete order info, because they told me they have no record of my order.
SO I pasted the complete order sumary from the email I had gotten from Amazon. And I got what now appears to be a generic reply to give me the run-around, again asking for the complete order info and that they have no records of my order.

So again, thankfully I have the other two units, because it seems I'm not going to get a replacement!!!!!
2130053
The HDT-500 set had a broken center speaker when arrived. I called up numerous times to customer support.

The customer support guys are useless at klipsch. First they did not listen to the issue properly. Then they asked to write an email to support@klipsch....after 10 days of email, there is still no response...and the telephone guys have no clue.

This is pathetic customer service. I have decided to scrap and redo the home installation with Bose now...atleast the customer service is good at Bose.

The product is faulty and the customer service sucks even more at Klipsch.
4114547
This product and the surrounds I received from Avallus (the third party dealer I purchased it from) had the serial numbers removed.  I sent the center in to Definitive Technology and had it looked over from top to bottom and they said it was definately a Definitive speaker through and through.  They think the speaker may have been stolen.  I hate that it doesn't have the serial number but am relieved to find out it has no alterations to it except for the serial number.  Be forwarned about Avallus even though I can't find their info anywhere online.  Also beware of third party sellers.  I called Avallus several times prior to purchasing these speakers and they told me that it was a Definitive Tech product and I WAS GETTING A GOOD DEAL.  They are not good business people.  Great speaker though!  It would of been worth the extra 80 dollars to just buy the same speaker "NEW" directly from Amazon or a dealer.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Definitive-Technology-CS-8060HD-Powered-Subwoofer-Center-Channel/dp/B00422L3EE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Definitive Technology CS-8060HD Powered Subwoofer (Center Channel)</a>
4544738
**UPDATE** 02/03/2013

I felt it was a  bit biased to rate this item two stars because of my bad experience with Klipsch so I revised my review to reflect the product accurately.

**5 STARS** - Klipsch Quintet 5.0 Series

These speaker are the best you can buy for the price, period. Right now for under $300 a set on Amazon, you can buy two of these sets for the price of their own original MSRP which is an absolute steel at this price. Let me rephrase this for people who are looking at purchasing a set right now. THERE ARE NO BETTER SPEAKERS for the price. We bought two of these sets for 9.1 set with a Pioneer Elite SC-68 Receiver. We have fronts, sides, rears and front height speakers paired with a Klipsch SW-350 Subwoofer and are currently witnessing "Audiophile" sound. This is likely due to the accuracy of these speakers and paired with a perfectly calibrated sound stage with one of the best receiver's you can get, which is the Pioneer Elite Series. The surround sound that these emit are total chaos, you hear thing's you've never heard before and they can get LOUD.

**1 STAR** - Klipsch Customer Service

Klipsch, when talking to a few of your representative, I was completely dissatisfied with how they talked down to me. I hate to tell you, but I know 5 times as much more then your front line reps. First no one even answered my sales or support inquiry (right off the bat, you lost business due to slow response time and un-knowledgeable staff). I inquired on how I could buy 2 pairs of additional Speakers for a 9.1 sound stage and was basically laughed at like I'm some idiot (I'm a hifi pro-audio enthusiast). Unfortunately, I have a small house and having these speakers, but in a 7.1 or 9.1 configuration matters for me, and my neighbors, who have the same set we do and live in a similarly sized home. I built the sound stage before my house was completed and spent hours calibrating the audio. PEOPLE WANT ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS Klipsch, acknowledge this and sell these speakers as separates. I refused to give your company until this was resolved. Fortunately, Amazon lowered the price of this set $274, which means I could buy two for the price of one basically so instead of waiting and messing around while you guys take your time to release additional separates (like the last two generations of Quintet's), I just went and bought two sets and discarded the 2nd center channel. Either way, you guys got to get it together, people care about your professional audio products, but they will care less when they get treated like retards when they are trying to give your company money. I'll stop raving about your products if this ever happens again. I really want to enjoy/ like your company, but your guys are makign it very difficult for me to do so.

Overall, great speakers - unbeatable for the price, but beware - customer service from Klipsch - might make you think twice and leaves a lot to be desired. This wasn't my first bad experience with Klipsch (that's why one-star) , but you can catch that on my other Klipsch reviews.
643651
After six weeks, and about 8 hours of use, external speaker failed.  Called SONY, they said after 30 days they make no warranty.  Offered to have me send it in for estimate and repair.  Cheaper/easier to replace.  Sounds like other buyers had a better experience, but I would have been better off with the digital product: Sangean PR-D7 AM/FM Digital Rechargable.  A bit more money, but not in the trash after a month.  Sony customer service rep actually said to me that I should be pleased, I got over a month of use before failure (!).  Not encouraging feedback.
1476187
I'm truly puzzled about my experience with these speakers; I've had nothing but problems with their performance on a Windows 10 environment.

I ordered a pair at the end of December 2015, and thought the sound for MP3s was fine, clear and punchy. But just anything else with a wider amount of low-end frequency-- games with bass or soft synths from a DAW, both at modest volume-- revealed an unacceptable amount of bass distortion, a "flapping" of the cones. EQ'ing (bass reduction) via the OS to remove the "flapping" killed any bass response. This has happened with the first set of speakers, the replacement I got from Amazon, and a 2ND replacement directly from Yamaha. It occurs via plugging into either my old Creative Audigy X-Fi Platinum card or the motherboard's onboard sound, and regardless of whether or not I flag the speakers as "Full-range" in Win10's Speaker Setup dialog. The only constant in this troubleshooting has been the model of speaker, and the sound's being routed through Windows 10.

I'm highly frustrated, as this experience is at odds with what almost every other review has stated. My one-star review is a rating of both my EXPERIENCE WITH THE PRODUCT, and the unhelpful dialog with Yamaha online chat staff to troubleshoot the problem.
349337
I have tried to find my original product review to update but I have not been so lucky. So I bought these speakers for a wedding, My wedding to be exact. I did not want to spend 500 plus dollars on a DJ when we were just doing a backyard wedding, super simple. SO I get the delivery and I do not immediately open it which was my mistake. So come the day before the wedding and we are testing the speakers and notice that the secondary speaker has a crack in the side of it where one of the handles are. Not sure how this happened because it sat in the corner until the day before the wedding, upon delivery it didn't have any bends in the box or signs of damage, that I noticed but then again I was oblivious at the time, I was more worried about rain (it was calling for thunderstorms, this was an all outside wedding). Now the speakers them selves did not have any rattling or problems with sound thank goodness (had no back up plan, shame on me) the wedding day came and went with out a hitch. We had karaoke and music all night long. was a wonderful time. But then after my previous review the seller contacted me asked for pictures of the damage and if it was the main speaker or the secondary speaker. I have emailed him back twice once through amazon and once to the email he provided to get in direct contact. offered a replacement or a partial refund. asked for a partial refund seeing as me using these things again will be slim. but plan to set the up somewhere. But I have attached a picture for other reviewers. that is if this review get published.
1089654
Left speaker stopped working after 10 weeks ... no abuse.  Contacted seller and they punted to the manufacturer.  Don't buy from these folks ... If you must have these headphones, go somewhere else.
3792037
Updated june 05 2012

One of the speaker died!!! It finally hapen!!! I Hate M AUDIO, is the worst!

I'm a music enthusiast. After been using the creative sbs380 for a long time I decided to upgrade my speakers. But, because of the price, I decided to purchased the BX8a Deluxe.

I do not live in the United States and I've been doing bussines with Amazon without any trouble. It works like this: I buy something in Amazon, then they send it to a courrier company in Miami and then comes to my country.

So far so good.

The speakers were deliverd in Miami in time and then the courrier company (my problem, not Amazon's) took to long time (one month) to deliver it to me.

So I got my speakers and they look AMAZING. Heavy, all in black, the blue light, the cone, every thing is as I dreamed.

Pluged them at my audio interface (Lexicon Alpha) with balanced audio cables (not the XLR ones that the seller gave me with the speakers because my interface use only TRS 1/4 inch). And the disappointment began.

After 15min the speakers started to get hot in the back pannel (where the volume knob and the on/off switch are). Then, 30min later the speakers were burnig hot. It was so hot that the back of my hand got a little burned.

Regardless the fact of the hot back panel, the sound is good (a little bright) with the volume knob below 70%. Above 70%, listening to SADE, the bass cone can't take it. It gets distorted and all over the place.

So I presume that the bad sound is due to the hot back panel problem. Some factory defect?.

I wrote a letter to the seller throug Amazon and the seller told me that they could do nothing because I passed the one month window guarantee and that I should contact the manufacter (M-AUDIO). The M-AUDIO webpage say that in order to fill a claim, or to contact them for a guarantee, first I needed to register my speakers. I tried to do so putting the serial numbers that appear in the back of each of the speakers and I get the message "wrong serial number". You can imaging the rest. Mails and days of waiting and nothing. And then, finally I fill a claim to AMAZON and they answer that they can not do anything because the speakers where delivered first to a courier company and then to me. What a let down.

So for me:

M-AUDIO is no reliable. If one lives outside the United States, better try another brand.

The sound of the Bx8a deluxe is cheap. You are paying for a 130 watt and you only get like 60watt semi-quallity sound. With the knob volume above 70% the sound is useless.

They get hot, so hot, that I know for sure that at any time they will stop working. I only use them like 30 min and then turn them off.

One thing is for sure though, they look beatifull.
522689
I ordered a pair of these last week, and they arrived faulty.  The UPS package I received was sent from "Z Electria".  I went to Sleek Audio's website, and noticed that their support page lists "Z Electria" as a vendor that they DO NOT cover under warranty.  I contacted Sleek Audio customer service, and here's what they told me:

"Unfortunately we don't offer warranty replacements from Z Electria due
to the fact they are buying second hand units and reselling them on
Amazon. They are an unauthorized dealer and we are currently
investigating if they are knock off products. If you see any SA6's
priced below $199 they are either stolen or we are not sure where they
came from. We apologize for the inconvenience and will match the $199
price offered by our authorized dealers if you would like to purchase a
new pair."

My advice:  Buy these elsewhere!!!  I went to B&H and paid $195.  These are fragile, high end earphones with small parts that are easily lost or damaged.  You NEED to have a warranty!!!
4910480
I should have known to only buy from Amazon itself as there is no warranty support through Polk if you encounter a problem with the product that you've bought from a no name company. So instead of going to Polk to get the speakers fixed I looked for DependableResources contact info only to find out I must have the speakers packaged exactly how they came which is understandable. But before searching for the original box and everything I found some reviews on the company DependableResource about their bad service and how they bribe customers that leave negative feedback on Amazon.com with money to remove their comments.

All in all, I've accepted the loss on the speakers and realize now that the only way to buy anything online is going through known companies such as Amazon or Newegg.

Buy legit or don't buy at all.
35109
Speaker went out in less than 2 months and when I contacted supported I got no noticed back complete waste of money and will not shop through this store again
2484279
Product worked great until my receiver broke and I have been calling and emailing this company for MONTHS. I got a living human on the phone once who said he would send a new one right out and I have never received it. i am still calling and calling and calling (the mailboxes are always full). Using their email customer service is about as good as spitting into the wind. Terrible terrible terrible. Do yourself a favor and buy your wireless speakers from another vendor. I can't believe AMAZON works with such an unreliable company. Consider yourself warned. Good luck.
3107195
I strongly recommend NOT purchasing this speaker due to a known amplifier defect, and poor-quality sound. Trusound knows these units have an amplifier defect, but they have no problem selling you one anyway.

I bought a T2 from a drop-ship online retailer (Touch of Modern) for my wife for christmas 2014. The amplifier failed after a few months of moderate use. I contacted Trusound, who replaced that speaker at no cost, and said that this is a known issue. After two months of moderate use, the amplifier also failed in the replacement speaker. I've gotten no more than 6 months total use from my speaker, and Trusound won't respond to my emails. I hate to toss both speakers, but Trusound seems to be reneging on their warranty, so I'll probably just take one apart and see if I can replace the amp myself.

I just purchased a Bose Soundlink for $135 (so $50 more than the T2), and am 1000% happier (amazed, actually) with the sound quality, and am a lot more confident that the company will honor their own warranty if I ever have a problem. The Bose has deeper bass than you'd expect, very clear mid-range and balanced treble. Instrumental music and human voices sound equally great coming from the Soundlink. The T2 on the other hand, emulates speech OK, but singing and instruments sound terrible from it. I wanted to like this speaker, but I'm really disappointed in the T2 product, and Trusound as a company.

Edit: Other reviews with positive remarks about the sound quality don't make any sense to me. Either other users have T2s that sound drastically different than the two I have (before mine stopped working), or they're mistaking high volume for high sound quality. It's true that it IS a loud speaker, but the there's very little bass, the mid-range is muddy, and the treble overpowers the lower frequencies. I would urge future reviewers to make a distinction between the speaker's volume capability and its sound quality. I just don't know how you can call this speaker's sound anything but poor.

If you have an issue with one of these speakers, you can try contacting CEO Dennis Reagan by emailing desk@trusoundaudio.com. There is no phone number. If you choose to purchase this speaker, good luck. Just know that, if you spend $50 more and get a Bose Soundlink, you won't need luck.
1454851
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY, ITS A JOKE .SO I JUST GOT THIS SPEAKERS ONE DAY AGO , I GO TO A PROFESSIONAL STEREO INSTALLATION SHOP WITH A 500 JL AMP AS THEY RECOMMEND, I GET A CALL FROM THE STEREO SHOP TELLING ME THAT THIS SPEAKERS WERE DEFECTIVE AND WONT WORK,THEY TRIED EVERYTHING BUT EVERYTHING LEAD TO DEFECTIVE SPEAKERS, SO I CONTAC THE SELLER AND HIS TRYING TO GET ME TO BUY ANOTHER SET OF SPAKERS, I TELL HIM NO.SO THEY E MAIL ME A AUTOMATIC MESSAGE SAYING TO RETURN THE SPEAKERS AT MY COST AND THANK YOU HAVE A NICE DAY.  I HAVE BEEN A LOYAL AMAZON COSTUMER FOR 4 YEARS AND NEVER HAVE I HAD BEEN SO ANGRY WITH ANYONE .