That helps ensure a uniformity of sound quality for home theater or multichannel music listening. Timbre matching of the five speakers was good, so the sound of the pink-noise test tones remained fairly consistent as they moved from speaker to speaker during the setup routine. We were happy with both the 60 and 80Hz settings, but settled on using 80Hz for all of our listening tests. Then again, when we just listened to dialogue from the two center channel speakers, the considerably larger Pioneer SP-C22 center was more naturally balanced, and less "boxy" than the Aperion 4C center speaker.Īs the speakers are larger than average, we experimented a bit to find the optimum crossover settings in our Denon AVR-1912 receiver's setup menu. On the whole the Aperion's tonal balance was richer and warmer, the Pioneer's leaner, but more detailed. It sounded fully competitive, and in some ways better than our reference Aperion Audio Intimus 4T Hybrid SD that costs more than twice as much. We had to remind ourselves again and again of the Pioneer's very affordable price tag. The SP-PK52FS performed extremely well, sounding like a much more expensive system. Sound quality: Best you'll find without spending a lot more The new speakers have new tweeters, woofers, crossover networks, cabinets, and speaker grilles the subwoofer received only minor changes. (We told you home audio can get expensive.) The SP-PK52FS system is a significantly revised version of the SP-PK21BS, which was one of our favorite budget surround systems last year. The entire system was designed by Andrew Jones, a man best known in the audiophile community for his ultra-high-end TAD speakers that sell for nearly $80,000. The six-piece Pioneer SP-PK52FS comes with a pair of SP-FS52 towers, one SP-C22 center channel speaker, two SP-BS22-LR surround speakers, and a SW-8MK2 subwoofer. But if you've got the space for the Pioneer SP-PK52FS, they're the best-sounding speakers we've heard at this price. If the Pioneer's looks and size aren't your style, we recommend the outstanding, albeit not as powerful-sounding, Energy Take Classic 5.1 ($400), which remains our Editors' Choice for budget home theater speakers. The black wood-grain vinyl finish isn't ugly, but it's far from the "furniture-grade" finish on speakers like the (more expensive) Aperion Intimus 4T Hyrbrid SD ($1,350). The speakers are unapologetically large, especially compared with lifestyle speaker systems like the Boston Acoustics SoundWare XS 5.1 ($500). Whatever your system, the SP-BS22-LR Compact Speakers are ready to step it up with authentic audio reproduction to bring your listening experience to the next level.The big drawback to the SP-PK52FS is its size, and, to a lesser extent, its style. Increasing tweeter efficiency, together with newly designed crossovers, allows the SP-BS22-LR’s play louder using less power. Tweeter: To widen the sweet spot of the 1-inch High Efficiency Soft Dome tweeter, we’ve engineered a custom wave guide. Engineers have also vented the pole piece, again improving bass response from the same size woofers in previous models. By doing so, not only is rigidity improved, so is bass accuracy. In the SP-BS22-LR, we’ve added a structured surface to the 4-inch woofer. Woofer: There are many challenges designing and manufacturing a woofer capable of delivering true bass performance. The reasoning is simple: we do it because it’s one more way of insuring high quality sound that makes its presence known. The Pioneer SP-BS22-LR utilizes a sophisticated 6 component high quality cross over. Much of the competition uses an extremely simple, low-cost cross over made up of a single capacitor and inductor. It’s an important job, and it uses circuitry like inductors and capacitors to accomplish it. Crossover: The job of the cross over in a speaker is to break the audio signal into low, high and sometimes mid-range frequencies.
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