Sort of like the keg cone

I have the focal Celestees with a ifi Hip-Dac 2 portable USB DAC w/lightening converter, is it worth the upgrade?

Wish the price was still that low

BASS is complete SHITE from that system even with the larger sub... my Vizio sound bar + sub BLOWS the HTA9 out of the water

i am 16 and my hearing is at 28

I use these as surrounds and they do a fantastic job with home theatre. I also have a pair in a 2-channel music listening room. Also, a great choice! No complaints. Very happy. I would highly recommend.

Hey Joe! I'm new to the scene of calibration. I have the polk xt 20s as my surrounds, L&R, but I have the xt15 as a center. I'm using dirac, but I don't know what to set my master volume at when calibrating my speakers. I was wondering if you could help me out with that. I've set my last set of speakers at -17 dB when calibrating them, but these speakers are different.

How does this one compare to the more expensive Marantz MODEL M1?

I don't usually comment on the review itself, but the way you do it is cool. Good vibes, good content. It's giving me Flipnout vibes (pinball reviews). How would you compare these Arendals to the new SVS ultra evolution pinnacle ? I have them since a week ago, and I'm quite happy, but I'd like to have additionnal clarity on the mids. When a lot of instruments are playing at the same time, it gets just a little bit confusing sometimes.

Does anyone still have the assembly diagram available today? Site 123 no longer exists.

Fact: Bouncey house speakers DO suck! Atmos is object based, pinpoint sound. Cool testing!! 😃

60 days is three months now lol

How is this brand over time? Customer service?

$20 to change 1 setting 🙄ugh I feel like an app like this should just be included with your denon purchase, especially when some of these receivers are $2000+

Yo Joe😊

For the price... I would expect nothing else but brilliant... 😵‍💫

I tested this and I was not impressed with the bass. I went with PB-1000 instead.

It would be nice to know some other speakers with this feature, mainly some that are better looking to put in my living room 😀 Any other sugestions? I don't mind paying a bit more, but not as much as the Arendals. Maybe something priced somewhat in between but better looking/ finished compared to the Polks.

I tested better than expected

Can you do about bose?

Very thoughtful and articulate review. Thank you!

Hey joe😊 have u ever heard the jbl hdi 3800? I am wondering how the bass is in the 1723 compare to the jbl.

Plot twist - our ears are not microphones, the ears and ear canals boost certain frequencies, and there's the brain interprating it all...

Hi Mr Joe, pls try with Elac debut 2 if possible and pls let us know your opinion

i been saying eq is a huge deal for along time. best thing i ever did was getting all sealed speakers and eq them to my liking. i also bought some sealed Arendal's for directivity.

Omg! The WiiM units got 10 band PEQ!!

good product... but guess what theres a new game in town.... tonewinner ... d2000 , d4000, d6000. 12 inch 12 inch and 15 inch. Also has built in bluetooth for your phone app. Much better value. You need to review these subwoofers

@joentell --- Are the physical locations of speakers in DTS, Auro, and Dolby surround sound configurations incompatible? How can someone listen to all three without having to move speakers constantly?

Hey Joe! You’re doing great man keep it up! It looks like you’ve got your hands full with all the very technical comments and a decent amount of shade, sorry dude. I’m not smart enough to understand any of that, but I do already have a few pairs of speakers and the WiiM amp and the Apple dongle so I think I’ll give your magic beans a try and see if I have any fun, I bet I will, thanks!!!

So polk xr20 vs Monolith by Monoprice THX Certified Satellite Speakers?

Yes! Nice approach

Erin's method is the better of the two. if the speaker is properly designed (BIG IF), the ROOM is causing issues, especially in low frequencies, as the average living room is simply not designed to reproduce deep bass (something to do with wave lenghts and physics, which Joe doesn't believe in). The room will cause both peaks and cancellations, as Erin correctly pointed out. While you can "tame" peaks with EQ, there is nothing you can do about cancellations with EQ, Joe. If it's not there, it's not there. Now, are you sure what you're hearing is a room node and not low frequency phase shift? Room "Correction" doesn't work. Room TREATMENT does a much better job. Then you eliminate the added time delays caused by the DSP eq, having one more piece of electronics in the signal path. Of course, people today don't want to do room treatment. Takes time. DSP is easy. I have to remember this generation invented instant rice because minute rice took too long. I know a recording studio owner who EQ'd his vocal booth using an I-phone app. SMH. A PROPERLY designed speaker should never sound "Chesty" in the voice range, Joe. I know, I'm wrong, you are right. I haven't changed anything in my system since 2004 other than DAC, and you seem to be the one never happy, constantly messing around with DSP trying to find the "Magic beans" to take the place of engineering. You remind me a bit of that dude in Canada, Jay, who bragged about owning over 70 pair of speakers before becoming an audio reviewer. What's the definition of insanity again? Before upgrading speakers, you may just want to look at upstream components, as all a better speaker can possibly do is more clearly reveal the fault of those components. No speaker, no matter who makes it, can IMPROVE on the signal it is being sent. Magic beans or no magic beans. Stop with the gimmicks and put some research into your systems is my advice. If you like the nonsense from Joe here, you'll LOVE Randy's channel at Cheapaudioman. By all means do NOT listen to guys that know what they are talking about. This is "Fun fi" and where's the fun in learning from them? Far better to piss money away on say a Wiim amp with a puny 48 volt power supply, a TI 3255 IC chip output, lacking the current needed to PROPERLY play music, that doesn't play well with high impedance speakers (many of which go VERY high) and has a rising frequency response in the top end, then blame it on the speakers and use the built in 10 band EQ to "Fix" the poorly designed amplifier. You could also use cables as tone controls if you have a LOT of money to piss away.

YOU REALLY have gotten full of yourself Joe. Again, you're wrong. Now your questioning Paul? Again, a microphone cannot hear up, down, left or right. Only distance. When you listen to recordings, in the vast majority of them, you are hearing dozens of MONO mic recordings, placed between left and right by the engineer. If your speakers are imaging way to the outside, or above the physical plane, that is most likely time delays due to poor design.

Hope you'll possibly test the upcoming cheap boombox from Earfun (Uboom X) which is being tuned by Oluv's gadgets, conclusion so far is that a cheap Chinese boombox, as long as it doesn't have any flaws in the driver design like this Earfun, can sound nicer than most stereo systems for 10x the price...

I am torn between Klipsch R-41 PM or Kanto Ora. There Will be a sub. Usage Will be for gaming and movies in a smaller office. Any advice?

I like your style and attitude towards gear. It’s the music! 🎶 Found you thru Daily HiFi now subbed to Joe N Tell. Have you reviewed any Cambridge Audio streamers like the MXN10?

Colours the sound .Try with and without on an oscilloscope....Distortion meter....Even a pilot light in a amplifier will do something not good...Nice gadget though.

If you have a mini DSP 2X4, you can bypass the crossover and just about any speaker and drastically improved the directivity index. You’ll also get rid of all the nastiness from the low parts quality, practically all speakers have. You would lower distortion by being able to use a higher order crossover, which also improves the directivity index because there is far less overlap in the drivers which is where most of your issues come from regarding directivity index. I don’t know why more people are not doing this, it’s very easy to run speaker wires straight through the port and you don’t have to damage anything inside the speaker, just unhook the terminals from the drivers and then connect your wires directly to the bare drivers and then use the mini DSP to do all crossover functions. If you ever want to go back to the internal passive crossover, you can do that!

w your sound demos it’s not really working to compare the two speakers bc of switching to the original track in between them.

Joe, although the XT has more bass, do you think the Arendal can probably play louder giving it more dynamic range? Making it better suited for HT?

I have the Paradigms 8000's, wonder if any of these match up to my monsters? I deleted my sub with these btw, they kick ass.

Isn't the 1723 high passed by design? It lacks in bass and is designed to be used with subs. What SPL could the Polks play at?