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Elite Series Bipolar Surround Sound Satellite Speakers

Average Customer Rating:

Rating:
94 % of 100

Elite High Definition 2-Way Bipolar Surround Speakers

Product Rating:

Product Rating
Overall Performance
80%

Product Review (submitted on February 26, 2021):

I'm still warming up these speakers and testing/tweaking fine placements in my Home Theater arrangement, but my impression so far is they do a good job reproducing the sounds that get sent to my rear channels. There's no output below about 120hz, consistent with advertised specs, but they play nicely clear within their range. The mounting brackets are good--better than the prior version's two sets of holes that required combining stud mounting and wall anchors and which are a little more finicky to level--and the binding posts are of good quality (though kind of useless for a wall-mounted speaker to accommodate banana plugs, most of which won't even come close to fitting). The cabinet's are just fine. They could be braced better, but that's an expected trade-off when trying to save money on speakers.Where I'm actually disappointed is in a different quality control issue. The grills are mounted via pegs in the speaker baffle, which nest into plastic sockets/receptacles in the grille. Problem is that they're stuck in there so tight out of the box that removing the grilles takes a lot of force; about half of the pegs yanked the plastic receptacles straight out of the grille frames. Best I can tell, they've got a little bit of contouring but are pretty much just friction-fit. I was able to twist the sockets back off and superglue them into the grille frames, but the amount of force I needed to use to remove the grilles the first time had me worried I was going to break something (which I did, kinda/sorta, but thankfully nothing important that couldn't be corrected.) The grilles come off easier now, and I'm not worried about the problem repeating, but it took some enthusiasm out of playing with my shiny new purchase.Overall, sound is good, mounting and connection is good, cabinet construction is fine, but the grille attachment design is mediocre--functional, but mediocre.

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