Sony SS-F7000

Let me be the first to say, whoever engineer at Sony who designed these speakers loves music, and I mean accurate music! Being a hard-core audiophile myself, I was sceptical of these speakers because of the price alone. But I thought to myself, I never judged a book by it's cover, and I never pre-judge anything or anybody because of their "reputation" or "name". And I'm so glad I did! I have heard and sold everything from Definitive Technology to Martin Logan's, and beleive you me, if you have these baby's hooked up to a decent amplifier (ATI) or better in my opinion, you will be one happy being! By the way I am not a Sony rep or anything like that, but after hearing these damn speakers, I wish I worked for them so I could get their reference SACD player at a discount, and hook it up to these suckers! For anyone looking for a true, and I mean TRUE Full Bandwidth speaker for a decent price,..............LOOK NO FURTHER!!! Highly Recommended with no prejudices!

I have these hooked up to a Sony STR-DA5300ES and previously had a pair of Sony SS-B3000's hooked up to them which sounded fine but I wanted BIGGER. I was dreaming of having a Klipsch system but I just can't afford it. After reading all the reviews and loving the SS-B3000's I figured why not give them a shot.

First impression after removing from carton was "should I had bought this large of a speaker?". After all I live in an apartment. I figured oh well and continued to move things around to make room. After hooking them up I started accessing my computer through my PS3 for music. I discovered that most MP3 flaws are definitely much more defined with these speakers. I started playing some real CD's and my own rips and they sounded fine, in fact better then ever. I did notice some boominess and ended up turning down the bass way down to equalize the sound. Other then that the sound and looks are just fantastic and I look forward to buying myself more Sony speakers.

Updated on Aug 28, 2009

After some good adjustments and long term listening, I felt I needed to add on to the boominess complaint.

I do like the boominess, but because of the apartment thing, I didn't want the next door neighbors to complain. So far they haven't so the boominess is not groundshaking, but very audible.