Fluance Signature HiFi 3-Way Floorstanding Tower Speakers with Dual 8" Woofers for 2-Channel Stereo Listening or Home Theater System - Natural Walnut/Pair (HFFW)

If you are looking for speakers, please read this carefully. These speakers are genuinely fantastic for the price AND what they are designed for. If you go to the Fluance webpage they say specifically, "Fluance develops home audio products to pay homage to the classic rock era which brought us bands such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Guns n’ Roses, The Beatles, and AC/DC to name a few." With that statement in mind, choose your speakers according to what the majority of the genre you listen to is. Will they play jazz? Yep. How about classical? Yes again... and they will sound good, but they EXCELL at classic rock because it's what they are designed for.If you are still reading this, good, I have your attention. What are speakers designed to do? They play the signal you send to them. If you send a trashy signal to them you will hear trashy sound. If you send a good, clean signal to them, music properly mastered, EQ'd or bit perfect, properly amplified, you will hear a good clean sound with all the details and air and separation and stereo image, properly amplified. Thats why you read mixed reviews here. Music over an FM receiver isn't going to sound as clean or detailed as a cd or directly streamed hi-res music file through a competent service like Amazons own Music Unlimited AND processed through a proper DAC then through a preamp of some sort, then a good amp out to your speaker (it can be an expensive hobby if you want good stuff). The better your equipment, the better your signal, the better ANY speaker sounds but especially a speaker designed for the genre of music you like the most. This is starting to make sense now.I don't work for Fluance or get paid to write reviews, but I do own a pair of these Fluance Signatures and I really enjoy them. Why don't they cost more money? Are they cheap speakers? No they aren't cheaply made. They are well designed and manufactured with certain cost measures in place so good ol fashioned regular folks can afford them. Fluance has a sales model where they sell them from their website and a few other online retailers generally direct from Fluance themselves, like Amazon. This keeps middle man markups (which can be really steep) from trickling down to the consumer, benefitting the customer in the long run. They would probably have a 50% markup if sold through brick and mortar resellers. PLUS, what speaker company other than Fluance offers a lifetime warranty on parts and labor? NONE that I'm aware of. You may be starting to see the value proposition here now.How do they sound? When hooked up with proper equipment, provided the proper amount of power and given a good clean signal... amazing. Good even at low volume, these don't need to blast but they can if you want the neighbors to enjoy your music with you! My system with these speakers offers a holographic sound field much larger than the speakers physical separation - like the speakers disappear. The mids match the lows and the high freq very nicely. No EQ is really needed unless you like heavier bass or louder highs - that depends on your ears, but they respond well to both digital or analog EQ also. I have a good DAC, so I hear good separation, air, and detail that I honestly didn't expect at this price range. Instruments sound lifelike, acoustic guitar is in the room with you. The soothing female singers voice can be intimate and in your ear when mastered to be, the male singer - strong voices with the texture of deeper voices felt as well as heard. The bass is not the feel it in your backbone bass because of the physical limitation of 8" drivers but the sub bass sound is completely present, loud if needed and nicely adjustable. No need for a sub as others state but if you want to feel it, get one. Many of these qualities depend heavily on the DAC you choose but these speakers are able to reproduce that quality which says a lot.Pros:Price for qualityWarranty is amazingHuge sound - very capableRobust speaker terminalsPackaging is exceptionalThey look awesomeMagnetized speaker coversCons:BIG and HEAVY (maybe that's not a con)Veneer (reflected in price, still looks good)Dust magnetsDid I say they're big? They're hugeI wish the stabilizers were just a bit wider, the speaker is tall and can be knocked overI wish the tweeter was better protected with dust covers off, it just invites someone to push it in.Only two colors to choose fromMore advice:Have a second person to help you unbox/carry theseUse a MINIMUM of 16 gauge speaker wire, thicker for longer runs and use banana jacks.

5 year update:This will be my final update, because I feel like I outgrown these speakers for music listening. They will be permanently assigned to a movie theater duty.The main lesson I learned in the past couple years with them, that the are a lot fussier as far as speaker placement goes than other speakers in my house.It is still possible to get them to sound good, but it takes a lot of setup - like moving away from the wall, playing with distance between them, playing with toe in and even the rake angle. Adjustments as small as half an inch. I'm moving on to speakers that are a lot easier to get to play nicely with each other and with the room.3 Year Update:Most important thing I learned about these speakers in last three years, is that they really shine with better components.I started with Yamaha R-N602 and after that R-N803. High frequencies were scalpel sharp and bass boomy, but mids were lacking.Switched to Rotel A12 and tonality completely changed to warm and laid back sound with balanced bass, warm mids, and pleasant highs.Emotiva A300, brought new level of dimension to sound stage, and better control of lower bass, with punch that you can feel.Emotiva XPS2 gen3 was a great amp if you wanted to send small objects falling off shelves and animals running out in panic for really immersive movie experience. Forget about using any sub-woofers at that point.PS Audio M700 mono blocks made these speakers really shine, with delicate top end, full bodied mids and dynamic bass that turns on a dime, and instrument separation like nothing else I heard before.To summarize - I'm pretty sure I'm not even close to approaching limit of what these speakers can do, and only models that I'm considering as possible upgrade are starting at 6 times the price of these, and I'm not upgrading any time soon.Original review:Another satisfied customer. Not much to add to already pretty comprehensive reviews, but here are few points worth noting:1) They really come alive after couple weeks of playing. I just would turn on online classical music radio station and go to work. After first three/ four days the difference was remarkable in overall sound quality.2) Sound quality compared to couple year old Sony floor-standing tower speakers also amazing. Better in every way. Sony will stay with subwoofer for movies, and Fluance will stay without sub-woofer for music listening in a different room.3) Not very power hungry, Driving them to house-shaking bass with Yamaha R-N602.4) These are first set of speakers, where I don't feel the need to adjust treble or bass. Just listening to music as-is and enjoying it.