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Fluance HFF Signature Series Floorstanding Speakers Main

Average Customer Rating:

Rating:
89 % of 100

Signature HiFi 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers

Product Rating:

Product Rating
Overall Performance
60%

Product Review (submitted on November 24, 2018):

Having a lot of 'expensive' hobbies, when I recently reignited my interest in audio, (including playing new and old vinyl), I searched far and wide for an affordable speaker that would provide good sound. After a lot of research, I settled on the Fluance Signature towers.I won't go into the packing details, which was decent; that has been reviewed by others. The speakers arrived quickly so, I am assuming that the customer service is good as well. I will get right into my review of the speakers.I am driving the speakers with a Yamaha A-S801BL Natural Sound Integrated Stereo Amplifier. I have a Project RPM 3 Carbon turntable and a Yamaha CD-S300BL Compact Natural Sound CD Player. The CD player has a USB port that allows me to play music from my laptop, iPad and iPhone.I have spent some time breaking in the speakers. I can't say I hear a big difference in the sound after playing them for around twenty hours. I realize that sound quality is subjective and mixes and engineering vary greatly but, I can't sense any consistency in these speakers. They provide moments of brilliance. Even within a single track. Then, they sound flat to me. Bass is not an issue. If anything, with few exceptions, there is too much bass. My room is large and I have them placed around three feet from the wall. I also have a back wall that serves well as a bass trap. These things just boom! Consequently, I find the mids and highs getting lost and the imaging or soundstage immensely suffers. With many songs, the vocals are washed out by the enormity of the bass. When the mids do hit, they sound great. But, as I stated, this is inconsistent.As for the tweeters, I have to say I find them to be inadequate. I am not a fan of ear-piercing highs but, these speakers seem to have trouble producing 'honest', or balanced highs.I, so much, want to like these speakers but, I am not feeling 'it'. I love the fact that I have thirty days to make a decision on whether or not I want to keep them so, I am going to give it a few more days. I will update this review at a later date. I may just need to step up and spend more for some other speakers. I really don't want to get into adding an equalizer to the mix. That is why I purchased my specific Yamaha amp. I also am not discounting others for reviewing the speakers highly. For some, these may hit the sweet spot and that is great.For what it's worth, this is my take.11/25/2018I spent several hours listening to these speakers today. I brought in my old twelve-year-old set of Energy Take 2 towers and A/B'd them. The Energy's definitely do not have the bass of the Fluance speakers but, the Energy towers blow the Fluance mids and highs away. When I ran the Fluance and Energy towers together with a NHT subwoofer, I was in heaven! The problem is, it looks ridiculous having four speakers sitting in front of my room. It really is a shame that the tweeters and, possibly the mid-range drivers do not live up to the bass drivers in these speakers. This could very well be a crossover problem. I'm going to be searching for something that does not require me to have four speakers in my setup.Update 12-17-2018I ended up returning the speakers. They just didn't work for me. Obviously, I am in the minority but, I just found the speakers to be too bass heavy (boomy) and the tweeters inadequate. They may be good AV speakers but they definitely didn't work for two-channel listening.

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