Bedroom 2.0 setup for TV, Movies and music.

Design : reflex ported at 120hz
Frequency response 120hz-5khz +/- 30dB
Material : 2 mm chipboard
Bracing : none
Type : floorstander
Speaker terminals : spring clip
Treble driver : 20mm paper
Mid drivers : 20cm paper
Bass driver : 40cm paper x4
Magnets : ferrite 1 ounce
Driver xmax : 1mm
Basket material : tin 1mm
Sound padding : none. Optional asbestos blue fibre padding at £100 extra.
Power handing 1.21 gigawatt pmpo
Impedance : 1 ohm
Sensitivity : 40 dB @ 1w
Weight : 2 kg (pair , including packing)
Crossover : capacitor, glued
Crossover shorted : yes
Wiring : glued
Finish : vinyl wrap
£200,000 RRP, on sale for £15

What do you think of these speakers?
 
lucid said:
Could be Acoustic Solutions. My guess is it's a brand sold by Argos and the full mail order catalogues. "Ohh, look at the big speakers for £(a very low price)" You see them a lot in CEX and Cash Convertors, just like all the cheap telly brands.
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It is indeed Acoustic Solutions. Dodged an asteroid there? They look quite good, are the drivers cack?

hornetstinger said:
Design : reflex ported at 120hz
Frequency response 120hz-5khz +/- 30dB
Material : 2 mm chipboard
Bracing : none
Type : floorstander
Speaker terminals : spring clip
Treble driver : 20mm paper
Mid drivers : 20cm paper
Bass driver : 40cm paper x4
Magnets : ferrite 1 ounce
Driver xmax : 1mm
Basket material : tin 1mm
Sound padding : none. Optional asbestos blue fibre padding at £100 extra.
Power handing 1.21 gigawatt pmpo
Impedance : 1 ohm
Sensitivity : 40 dB @ 1w
Weight : 2 kg (pair , including packing)
Crossover : capacitor, glued
Crossover shorted : yes
Wiring : glued
Finish : vinyl wrap
£200,000 RRP, on sale for £15

What do you think of these speakers?
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Terrible, crap response, low excursion, poisonous.
 
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willhub said:
It is indeed Acoustic Solutions. Dodged an asteroid there? They look quite good, are the drivers cack
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Let's just say that they're built to a price which is substantially lower than even the entry-level speakers from the better-known budget brands such as Eltax.

To give you some idea, their "high performance" bookshelf speakers - the AV21 - sold at retail for £25 a pair. Think "midi Hi-Fi" speaker quality. A very basic and lightweight box, low-cost drivers, possibly no acoustic lagging, quite a crude crossover. None of it bodes well for performance. The tower speakers are the same, but they have to spread the jam even thinner.

Don't get me wrong, they work i.e. they make a noise. For some folks that's enough, and they love them for the low price, same as some people think 10 beefburgers for a quid is a great deal. Each to their own.

You should buy a pair just to try if they come up cheap. Treat it as a right of passage. Remember though, £20 or £30 for a pair of used bookshelf speakers, or £50-£80 for the used towers might well be as much as they cost new. They aren't the bargain you might expect.
 
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