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Missing a lot of sound
I must remember "Never trust reviews never trust reviews" especially when it comes to audio. People please, if you buy this system you are going to be missing out on so much sound. I already have a Cerwin-Vega 5.1 system and wanted to downsize speakers to go better with my HDTV. I tried about 3 of the Home Theater in the box units from Sony and Panasonic. They were missing sound like the sound of a guitar pick on the strings, the slicing sound of a knife, the thump of a basketball on the court. I saw the reviews and thought this system might be different. But alas it is not and this unit sounds so bad it sounds like the speakers are made out of paper. Oh wait, look at the specs, they ARE made of paper lol. Size and weight does matter when it comes to speakers. None of these small satellite speakers are going to be able to produce true sound because the woofers on them are too small. If you truly want good sound then buy speakers that are 2 way and at least a 4 inch woofer. The sub-woofer is pretty lame as well. After plugging back in my AVS cerwin-vegas (only paid $250 for 8 years ago and these can still be found on the web or ebay cheap) after listening to these Yamahas, I'm like ahhh...this is what sound should be like. I didn't realize how good my speakers are until i tried all these small systems. Yeah these are only $130 but you are going to have $130 sound. Anybody who writes a review in here saying these sound as good as higher end systems doesn't know what they are talking about.
To add to that, one of my speakers had funny sounding crackle to it. Maybe it was the paper cone. These go back to Amazon.
May 2011 · Musical Instruments · verified purchase