If you're serious about home-theater sound, a home-theater surround sound receiver is about your best choice for broad connectivity and high quality performance. Perhaps the most daunting task is finding and connecting the right speaker system. Onkyo has assembled quite a great speaker system for you and, with included color-coded cables, installation into your receiver is relatively simple. After all, its all about home entertainment and you deserve an easy routs to achieving pleasure that you can continually appreciate. That's where this Onkyo SKS-HT240 comes into the picture and the sound field. It looks good too! Frequency Response - 27 Hz - 150 Hz (Subwoofer) Includes connecting cable Onkyo USA 2 Years Parts and Labor Warranty
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Summary: Another Winner From Onkyo
Comment: I have been using these speakers since Mar 2006. I bought them from Mumbai, India for USD$900. It's now available at Amazon for an unbelievable price of less than USD$300.
I have them wallmounted with B-Tech BT33 wall-mounts. They sound good and give their money's worth. They are definitely an upgrade to H.T.I.B. speakers but not as good as something almost small and comparable as Paradigm Cinema 90s. The Paradigms have a level of clarity, efficiency, midrange & smoothness that these speakers find hard to match up with. That also makes Paradigm Cinema-90 series almost 3 times more expensive than these Onkyo speakers. I know I have just compared apples to oranges and it still is the low end of high end audio. Lol.
The unique selling point of this speaker system is the subwoofer. The subwoofer that comes with these speakers is very well designed and attractive. It's got an 8 inches down firing woofer with a built-in 150 watts r.m.s. amplifier. It has a front port so placement near walls in smaller rooms is less complicated compared to rear ported designs. Also because of a front ported and down firing design it eliminates the use of a speaker grill in the front of the subwoofer which mostly attracts dust and dirt. Though the subwoofer sounds powerful and rattling at times, it does not go below 30hz, and that should be very well suited for most living rooms / apartments. On the other hand, if you like to bring your house down along with your neighbour's then you need to look elsewhere such as Paradigm Servo which goes all the way down to 10hz. Phew!
Most people who buy these speakers would buy it for it's low profile and wall mounting capabilties. Unfortunately these satellite speakers are rear ported, making wall mounting option a bit tricky. You will definitely need wall-mounts to avoid close proximity to the wall. Acoustic suspension or front ported design would have made it better.
Cost cutting measures such as spring loaded clips instead of binding posts and fixed cloth speaker grills in front of the satellite speakers, may also be seen as negative points but not as a deal breaker.
Another thing that I would like to mention about these speakers is the unrealistic specification. Most speaker manufacturers seem to play with specification. Onkyo is no exception. The woofer for the satellite speaker is barely 3 inches in diameter and it claims to go as low as 65hz. Yeah right. Yawn.......
I still give them 4 stars because no one can give you speakers with such aesthetics, performance & value for money for under USD$300. I have these speakers paired with an Onkyo TX-SR604 and Pioneer DV-610AV universal DVD player. These speakers have delivered what I expect from them. Right now the upgrade bug has bitten me and I'm building a Paradigm cinema - 90/110C system.
I would recommend these speakers to any one who is on a tight budget and is building their first home theater system. They will not disappoint you. Be prepared to spend money on wall mounts / stands & decent cables to get the best out of these speakers.
Paradigm Cinema-90s, 70s, Mirage Omnisat V2s and Nanosats are other speakers also worth considering in this performance / price range.
Customer Rating: Summary: Surround System
Comment: Speaker system is pretty good, but the speakers are actually much bigger than the picture would lead you to believe. Overall, sound is good and the sub is really pretty good. Nice buy for the price.
Customer Rating: Summary: hope 2nd time better than the 1st
Comment: I was totally happy with the sound and look of this home theater system until the sufwoofer quit 2 weeks after I hooked it up. The vender was real cooperative about replacing it, but had to return the whole system, not just the subwoofer. Also make sure to keep the original packageing because that is the only way they would accept the return. I powered the speakers with Onkyo TX-SR606 Home Theater receiver. Hook up is almoost to easy, all wires and connectors are labeled and color coded. If not for the failure of the sufwoofer would have rated 5 stars.
Customer Rating: Summary: Very good for small-middle rooms
Comment: If your room is designed for Hi-End sound (sound absorbers, special geometry etc) you probably will be disappointed. Otherwise you will find this item very good.
Customer Rating: Summary: Buy These Now
Comment: The sound experience is incredible. The subwoofer is incredibly powerful. Friend, Dolby 6.1 Lord of the Rings- ROTK makes this system sing. You really get great speakers for the money.
They look nice too- the speakers don't have the "boxy" look of many other systems- rather, they are very sharp looking with mostly polished metal casing. (some plastic too) They are quite stylish and not bulky.
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