Very happy with my Ai61s and love supporting a Canadian company! Wonderful sound to fill my studio room and connected to Fluance's RT82 turntable with pre-amp(USB Phone Plus) - review coming later for TT combination. Very well packaged and arrived in mint shape. Speakers are easy to set-up and the LED controls are simple to use. Their quite large if used on a desk as monitors. Bluetooth connects so quickly to my Galaxy Note 9 for streaming it's amazing. Stream Serius XM and play Flac files with no issues from soft folk Wilderness of Manitoba, upbeat and smooth Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin to progressive base pounding metal from Gojira. Recommended purchase indeed!

Excellent speakers. Attractive and very full sound.

It has all the features I wanted. However, they do try a bit hard to do too much. For this reason, they sound good but can fall flat if you turn up the bass and volume. The loss is with the vocals and anything else midrange, so they are good but not necessarily audiophile quality. They are reasonable at their price range and good for low volume in smaller spaces.

AWESOME

Great quality

I am very happy with this purchase. The sound is excellent and very convenient. My only request is that Fluance sells stands with these that can be screwed. They are not baby friendly. Also, a cover would have been nice.

Needed some powered bookshelves for my office, that sounded excellent with good build quality. Never heard of Fluance, but after TONS of research the Ai61's fit the bill. These are now about 6 months old, broken in great, and WOW! Awesome speakers. Just picked up the 10" sub I expect no less. Thanks Fluance!

These speakers are incredible, the build quality alone is superb. When you first get them out of the box you can just feel the quality of the speakers themselves. When you connect them to a turntable, or your phone, you will notice just amazing sound quality. At the end of the day it is about the sound, and I can not rave enough about the sound. I can not imagine finding better quality speakers at this price point, or one much higher.

One of the finest products on the market. Their customer service is honestly the best I’ve ever dealt with. Absolutely fantastic employees, especially Julie. She followed up on her fantastic service to make sure all is good. Very impressive.

Extremely impressed and satisfied with the quality of this product (build/design and sound quality). Highly recommended by someone who normally buys Paradigm. Well done Fluance!

My experience is very similar to Jason G's review. During playback there is highly noticeable audio compression happening. To elaborate, as soon as a song gets to a quiet point, the volume slightly increases and then during a very high point, the volume suddenly adjusts itself lower. Why is this happening? I can only suspect that the controller inside these speakers is very poorly designed and is drastically compressing the dynamic range before playback.

I wasn't going to post a review, but I think this piece of information is really important for future buyers: BE PATIENT.

At first I was really disappointed because the speakers had very little bass (I even thought they were broken at one point) but I decided to keep trying them for a few more days and oh boy was that a good call. They say the break-in period is 10-12 hours but from my experience it was more like 20+ (I guess it depends on how loud you put your music). After that break-in period though the sound is simply amazing! Also other random things: the Bluetooth works perfectly (never fails to connect, isn't disturbed by a microwave running and has really high quality), the remote is really good and the speakers look really cool (I took the ones that were all black). Very happy about my purchase and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for speakers in this price range - I now notice instruments and percussions that I previously didn't in songs.

Outstanding pair of speakers! Added the Fluance powered subwoofer (10 inch) DB10, and the sound is incredible. Good highs, midrange, and lows. Well worth the cost.

Excellent all the way around.

This is the second set of fluance speakers I own. The last pair were passive speakers and the quality from them was also excellent. I was looking for an active pair of speakers that had multiple inputs and these fit my needs perfectly. I haven't used the USB input, but the Bluetooth, optical, and RCA inputs work great. Glad they included BT5.0.I'm not used to having DSP built in, but from what I can tell, the DSP really enhaces the speakers. The DSP filters almost all of the bass out when you plug in a sub. Somewhere around 110hz. Also, the sub out only sends 110hz and below. Definitely a plus. They do sound great even the sub unplugged, just don't expect them to add more bass if you have a sub that's lacking in performance. Big rooms need big subwoofers.***Edit: I just watched a movie and the surround sound system hooked up to it had some of those like 4" full range speakers that mount on the ceiling.... Let me tell you.... They just don't cut it compared to these fluance bookshelf speakers. You won't believe how awful everything sounds with generic speakers, sound bars, and TV integrated speakers. If you enjoy good audio whether from a movie or from music, buy fluance. Either passive or active. Get a subwoofer too. You'll be amazed how much better everything sounds when you let the subwoofer handle the sub frequencies, the midwoofer handle the mids, and the tweeter handle the highs.***