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Sony SSF-7000 Floor-Standing 4-way Speaker with 8" Woofer (Pair) |
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | 8" Newly Developed Mica Reinforced Woofer. 8" Enhanced H.O.P. Cone - Mid Woofer. 3 " Enhanced H.O.P. Cone - Mid Driver. 1" Nano Fine Balanced Dome Tweeter. Sound Reproduction to 50kHz (for High Resolution Audio). 200W Maximum Input Power. | | | | The ultra-powerful Sony SS-F7000 4-Way Floor-Standing Speakers will refresh your appreciation for music. With pristine sound reproduction and high-quality drivers, these speakers bring new life to your music collection. Just as the original composer intended, the sound quality is so rich you feel like you're at a private concert. Lows, mid-ranges and high tones are recreated in high resolution audio, making even the most subtle sounds music to your ears. | |
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| | Replaced an aging pair of 25+ year old JVC knock-offs, as my main living room speakers.
I'm so glad I got these, over the 6" single woofers, these ROCK! They are kind of tall, up to my sternum, but sound quality is great & they are sleek enough to save floorspace in my narrow living room.
Price was very reasonable & they arrived a day earlier than expected.
It feels like my FIRST day of 5.1, or 6.1, all over again!
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| great speaker for the value | |
| | This speaker sounds really good. If you add an equlizer($70 -behringer) and a woofer($80- mine is yamaha) you got the perfect set-up. The bass is good enough even without the extra woofer but a woofer fills up the sound...and please don't tell me that some more expensive speakers can do better at 'lows' than a woofer...
Anyway they do have a lot of power...I use a 2x110W amplifier and 2/3 of the volume to max is already too loud (without distortion)...
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| Excellent speakers for the price | |
| | I purchase those speakers recently to replace some aging bookshelves speakers. Let me tell first that I am blown away by the quality of these speakers. I bought these set mainly because of its positive reviews but I was a little worried about their low price compared to similar items. I must say I was not deceived a bit. The speakers came promptly, well package and without any damage. The outside appearance is simple and neutral.
Some reviewers have complained about a low frequency resonance, I personally have not noticed it, I actually decided to retired my subwoofer because the bass provided by those speakers are plenty enough for my taste.
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| | Just bought a pair of these to be used as surround speakers for the rear. I hooked them up to a 100W Onkyo stereo receiver first though to do some auditioning. I had a smaller pair of older Cerwin Vega VE8 series 2-ways hooked up before the Sonys. The newer style of 8" VEs sell for around $300 pair. I also own a pair of Klipsch RF-5s since the late 90s. These Sonys turned out to be a little better than what I was expecting for the money, but I will tell you they are just a tad lacking in a couple places, but overall for the current prices, the best speakers you are going to find new. Maybe, they are in need of some extensive break in period but these Sonys do exhibit very good bass. My biggest gripe, which for this price can't gripe really is that the upper end of these speakers could use a little more "bite". They are a pretty mild speaker in my opinion. They have a broad bandwidth, and have the "air" needed at the top and the bass down low, but they are a little lacking in the upper midrange area. They'd be perfect with a little more powerful tweeter/midrange combination. They don't "project" in the upper range like the Cerwin Vega 8" 2-ways do, and of course, there is no comparison to the Klipsch RF-5s, a very powerful, and highly efficient speaker. Just not in the same class or even close. The Cerwins I have are more efficient, and have more texture, more musicality, but then again they do cost at least another $100. These Sonys seem very inefficient compared to the Klipsch, or the little Cerwins. Partly, some of it is that they are an 8 ohm speaker where the others are 6, which has a little effect, but these speakers could handle my Onkyo up to 3/4 on the dial, where they began showing some strain, and though they play loud at 3/4, they are not as loud as the 8" Cerwins. The little Cerwins, and the RFs play much louder at only 1/2 the dial or less. They'll handle the 100 Watt receiver no problem, but their maximum db output does not reach the VE8s or the RF5s. Of course in more expensive speakers, the highest dollar component, or the bread and butter component of a speaker will be the tweeter. I owned an older series of small Sony bookshelves for a day once and returned them for lack of a decent tweeter for a pair of Bose 201s, which in that case was a better deal, but more money. Sony seems to be a very budget oriented speaker with a very budget based tweeter that they continue using, though they have improved it since their earlier series. It has some "air" now, but it is still not quite powerful and dynamic enough like the similar mylar designs Cerwin uses for example. The midrange in these 7000s seems nothing special or far from any regular paper cone type. It's fairly weak as well in its own right, and the two together do "o.k", but this speaker could fully mature into some kind of psudo "next class up" with simply few more bucks, and a tweak put into the tweeter/midrange combo. The bottom end is pretty dang good for a sub $100 ea. speaker. I'd describe the output as similar in performance to a conventional, old school, 120 Watt 12" 3-way, all cone based speaker. The materials that are used though are a little nicer than an old school, paper, 12" inchers, etc. The rubber surrounds, and the cone materials. The quality is pretty good for the money, except as stated in other reviews, I had a problem with some damage to a grill. The grills are not Klipsch, or Cerwin heaviness. They are a bit fragile, and a little flimsy, but the problem lies more in the packaging mostly. The styrene foam blocks used to protect the ends of the speakers are not robust enough in the center of the box, where the speakers lie facing each other with their grills installed, and any bumps to the middle of the end of the box during transport puts a sheering type of force onto the grill ends. Mine looked good, until I went to pull off the grills. One was fine, the other, the two top pins were sheered off and remained in the rubber cups on the speaker face. I had to dig them out with a small pointy object. I do not plan on going round and round with Sony, though I may make one attempt to get a replacement. I figure some Super Glue Gel should do the trick on putting the pins back onto the grills strongly enough to hold. These grills are not the type to be removed on any kind of regualr basis. You'll risk breaking them. Other than that, I find these speakers to be quite nice at $200 pair. Let's put it another way. I have also owned several pairs of Bose 201s and 301s. For $225 out the door, I'd take these Sony 7000s over either of the Bose. These are a better than a pair of 301s, and at least $100 less per pair. They have a fuller range sound a floorstander with two 8"s can give you over a bookshelf type, single 8". You can only do so much with one 8" and a small, ported only, box, and these Sony's can out perform the 301s on the bottom end. On the top end, they would be pretty similar. They are flat out a better buy than 301s if you have the space, and don't have to have bookshelves. I just want to mention that I have more experience with audio purchases than say "Joe average". I'm sure there are others with lots more, but I have above average experience in this hobby/vocation for 30 years with expenditures in the mid $30Ks, and I will tell you that overall, these 7000s are the best, comercially made speaker buy under $100 each money can buy you. So if you are someone on a tight budget, you can't go wrong with these. Just be prepared to be able to supply them with a 100W if you plan on playing them on the loud side because they take a lot of power to get loud, unlike Klipsch, or even the Cerwins. These speakers are highly resistant. They're similar in efficiency to a pair of Bose 901s. Takes a lot to get them going. Wide open my amp barely gets warm with these, whereas the Cerwins will heat my receiver to fry eggs. Then again the Cerwins crank every watt, and every BTU available out of your amp just shy of a meltdown! Klipsch and CW make ones amplifier seem like it's about twice as powerful than when using other speakers like these 7000s. They sound pretty good though, smooth, and wide ranged. They're just a little shallow, and weak in dynamic range, and the cringing type textures you can hear in the others I've compared them against. Softer, and more docile being better words to decribe them, and not as tight, explosive, and highly efficient a speaker, but remember these are not $1000 speakers, and not even $300+ speakers, though they are better than some, and certainly no less than most $300 speakers with the exception of 8" Cerwins. Cerwins are not the most refined, polished, or "european" looking speakers, but they do have their strong points. I've never been a big Cerwin fan, but after I bought a pair of these VE8s, I was surprised with them. Note: If you want to really get the most out of a pair of CWs, bypass the protection feature on the crossover board. They will play quite loud, and take a beating. CW put that protection on there for the user as well as protecting them from having to replace drivers destroyed by partymongers, but the speakers will play quite loud, and knife edge clear without cutting out too soon on you if you have good clean power for them. A novice may blow speakers, but a seasoned enthusiast, or audiophile knows how far they should go by experience, and where to stop. Anyhow, I'd have given these a "5" if they would have been perfect, but they are not absolute, though nearly! I'd give them a "4.3" if there was a selection, but if Sony would improve the way they package these to make grill damage less frequent, and employ just a little more dbs mid- "up top" for these nice towers without increasing the price much, they'd easily be a 5+ rating set of speakers. Regards
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| | I bought these and was floored by the sound. These are awesome! They were in my room (12x12). The highs and mids were outstanding and the bass pounded. I had to turn the bass down on my receiver. Now they are in the living room (18x22) and they fill the room quite beautifully. Good job Sony!
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