Fluance SX-HTB

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Audiophiles that we are, we felt our acoustic jazz CDs' treble sounded a little too bright, but depending on your taste, that may be a good thing. Bass was also a bit too "creamy rich" for us, and unless you're a total bass glutton, you'll want to move the towers way out into the room, two or more feet from the rear wall. Bass definition picked up after we did that and spread them further apart from each other. We wouldn't recommend cramming these speakers in small room, less than 200 square feet.

The towers really came into their own when we played Led Zeppelin's concert CD set, How the West Was Won. The band's righteous electric mayhem was a total blast. Jimmy Page's guitars and Robert Plant's vocals popped out of the speakers with a vengeance.

Moving on to DVDs, we added the DB-150 subwoofer, and our favorite war movies, such as The Thin Red Line and U-571, had plenty of impact, but the SX-HTB's center speaker's faults were more obvious. Dialogue was undernourished to the point of being thin. (The DB-150, meanwhile, won't win any awards for low-down finesse or detail, but it adds muscle to the system's deep bass capabilities and matches the speakers well.) The Lion King DVD sounded so magnificent and lush we forgot to take notes during the movie.

To reiterate: The SX-HTB offers a lot for the money, but don't kid yourself into believing the system competes with speaker packages that cost upward of a grand--it doesn't. If you can afford the higher-end alternatives, pony up the loot. But if you can't, the SX-HTB offers one of the best surround-sound bangs for your buck that we've heard in a long time.

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4.5 stars

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"Good bang for the buck!"

by canpatm on November 8, 2005

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"A $1000 set of speakers for a $300 price"

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"Great deal - solid speakers."

by fbomb on September 13, 2005

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