Klipsch Reference Home Theater Speaker Bundle – Includes (4) R-41M Bookshelf Speakers, (1) R-52C Center Channel, and (1) R-80SWi 8″ Wireless Subwoofer for Immersive Surround Sound

Amazing Sound For The Price
I replaced a pair of JBL bookshelf speakers with these, as the JBL’s had been in use for decades and were starting to sound flat and lifeless. Plus I needed to conserve some space on the shelves.I am using these in a small recording studio where I do voice overs and produce thousands of radio commercials every year. So I need something that sounds good, but not something so high end that it won’t give me a realistic overview of the over all sound of a produced piece.I had been satisfied with other Klipsch speakers used in my home stereo systems. Fine clarity and nice spectrum of sound. Now, these little buggers don’t sound as good as a pair of speakers costing 10 or 20 times the price, but for their size and value they are very very nice. My studio is not much larger than a typical small bedroom so I’m not pumping hundreds of watts into these. They do sound very nice and give me a respectable playback of what I can expect my work to sound like in the wild. These, obviously, are NOT studio monitor speakers e.g. you wouldn’t use them a references mixing the latest production from a music studio as special designed speakers are used for this work. For voice over and commercial production I need to listen to things the way the public will be hearing them, and few people are listening to radio commercials on high end systems.These are built solid, look nice, and sound better than I expected and with a bit more clarity than I expect from speakers of this price. Bass ports on the back give them a little extra punch in the low end – and means you probably don’t really want to hang them on a wall even though a keyhole for doing this is provided on the back. Other reviews are correct – there is nice bass and clear crips highs, and just a hint of a dip in midrange response but I don’t find this to be an issue — or hardly noticeable unless you’re listening for it.All in all they’re quite nice at this price point. They fit where I need them. I used banana plugs to connect the speaker outputs – in fact I also ordered some plugs to make up my own speaker cables when I ordered the speakers. First time I’ve used banana plugs that I didn’t have to solder.I did take the advice of another reviewer and picked up the little Fosi amplifier to drive them – I had been using a Realistic/Optimus mini amp for the past 40 years and decided to upgrade. The little Fosi Audio TB10A amplifier sounds great with these (see my other review).You can’t really miss with these little Klpisch speakers!

Excelente qualidade. Estou usando com um receiver Marantz 1200 e subwoofer ativo Yamaha. Minha única recomendação é utilizar um subwoofer também, pois as caixas possuem uma melhor resposta nos agudos e médios, mas nos graves não consegue atingir os melhores níveis.

I bought these as part of my pandemic lock-down goal to have decent sound from my PC, as I was very dissatisfied with the performance of the Logitech 2.1 speakers I’d been using. My solution has been to connect my PC to an external USB valve DAC, feeding into a small 80W per channel solid state desktop amplifier, feeding into these Klipsch speakers. The difference is night-and-day. They might not be bass monsters, but they manage to produce a shockingly large amount of it for such small speakers. If your listening habits are mostly drum & bass, dubstep, or other bass-heavy material then you might want a subwoofer with these, but otherwise they manage just fine. Overall, they’re a very crisp and clean sounding pair of speakers, with punchy, well-controlled bass and plenty of detail in the treble.Some might find their sound a little on the ‘aggressive’ or ‘harsh’ side thanks to those horn loaded tweeters, which is why I decided to use a valve based DAC to tame them a little, and it seems to have done the trick. Probably more of a potential issue for younger listeners – my middle aged ears are basically deaf to frequencies above 13kHz.And then there are the looks. Personally, I love how they look, and when I’m buying speakers that will be seated either side of the PC monitor on my desk’s monitor shelf (with some sorbothane feet to help isolate them) and I’ll be ~75cm away from them when I’m using them, the fact that they have a high quality finish and with that copper coloured driver look a lot less bland than most speakers… they look very good up close, and it’s a definite plus. Nice touches like using copper coloured bolts to match the driver don’t go unnoticed either.

With the right setting the speaker sounds awesome, picking up every single sound from the movies.