Acoustic Energy 3311 Floorstanding Speakers
Acoustic Energy 3311 Floorstanding Speakers
[Jan 29, 2002]
bhob
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Sounds good
Weakness:
2 Guys in a white van Wow. Here I thought I got a good deal. Back when I was naive and trusting I too was pulled over in MN by these two guys. Bought them. Have been happy with them. But stay away from these a-holes. They must have made a killing. Similar Products Used: n/a |
[Dec 13, 2000]
Gregory Brooks
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Great Tweeters, excellent bass response
Weakness:
Getting bad raps from people that don't know good sound when they hear it. Ok, When I got the speakers they wouldn't work and immediately packaged them up and called a gentleman named Doug at the factory. He was very understanding and was going to refund my $$, but I then got to thinking, if I don't go the extra mile and see what's in these cabinets, I will never know if they are good or not. I broke into the cabinets and found that the leads had come off the speakers during shipment and WOW when I hooked them up, I COULD NOT BELIEVE THE SOUND. I have a recording studio and have used the above mentioned studio monitors for many years, but for the buck, these are an incredible value. Similar Products Used: JBL, Polk Audio, KEF, Bose |
[Jan 15, 2002]
Tommy
Audiophile
Strength:
gets pretty loud, decent bass, good trebble and mids
Weakness:
bass distortion at loud levels These are a good pair of speakers with great sound. Although when turn up loud on my optimus stav-3690 the bass gets distorted a bit. I've never turned my stereo up past half way |
[Oct 20, 2000]
Jon Smith
Audiophile
Strength:
Nice Full Bass
Weakness:
Tweets and Mids These speakers are usually sold as a scam for ridiculous amounts of money, HOWEVER, providing you don't get burned and you actually listen to the speaker as unbiased as possible, you will find that the woofer is a nice tight cone that delivers a very full round Bass. One of the nice features about the speaker is it's ability to control the mids and highs via knobs located on the speakers themselves. With these features coupled with the equalization coming from my amp, I have no complaints. I prefer a dry, clean response from speakers so if you're looking for a wetter, spongier, sounding speakers these would not be the ones. These things are punchy and they need at 100 watts or so to get what you want from them. I paid $100 bucks for'em and use them as computer speakers (lined out of an Onkyo 100 watt amp) and my room sounds great! They are NOT high dollar speakers, but well worth 100 bucks. |
[May 12, 2000]
emo jonson
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
offers good sound for the money
Weakness:
weak tweeters i have had those for over 3 years. they are ok for what i paid for them. i bought them from two guys, i knew something was wrong but the speakers seemed really good. Similar Products Used: * |
[Jan 07, 2001]
mike h
Casual Listener
Strength:
Great sound and nice bass response
Weakness:
Not a high power output bass speaker Well, |
[Dec 17, 2001]
David
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Nice punch, low distortion at high volume, nice mids and bass. Look very nice. :-P
Weakness:
High Frequencies can get tinny, Bass doesn't go as low as I'd like sometimes (but that's what a Subwoofer is for). Construction on some one speaker seems cheap (but that's what they are). Great speakers for the price, next up in price that pushes this much sound, and as nicely, is about $500-$800 a pair, so I feel pretty good about the purchase, especially as a starter pair after some old hand-me down speakers. They sound great across the board, from Classical to Hard Rock, Action movies to The Simpsons. Similar Products Used: Fisher |
[Oct 17, 2001]
Jon Curry
Casual Listener
Strength:
Didn't Turn Them On
Weakness:
Didn't Turn Them On This is the reason i did this review... These guys give you a story about there boss and some extra mointors. they told me they are 929 retail. they talk a whole lot and are ruthless and will do what ever it takes to get you to buy them. they tricked me because i had no idea what any of this stuff was and i belived them. don't buy them. They travel all over CA, and do this stuff... it cost me $310 for $250 monitors when i am the one spouse to be getting the deal. stay away from van guys. Similar Products Used: Didn't Turn Them On |
[May 15, 1999]
Loiuse Elias
an Audio Enthusiast
There is no such product as an Acoustic Energy Series 3311 speaker , there is however a cheap Hong Kong Speaker called an Acoustic Series 3311 - its sound ok for something thats worth about $HK 250- 350 , so if you get sold one beware of it being hyped as a Acoustic Energy speaker, which are unbelivable !!! |
[Jan 12, 2001]
Fred
Audio Enthusiast
Strength:
Very good bass response, quite impressive tweeters as well
Weakness:
Sometimes causes me to wake up the neighbors Well I got these speakers from some guys selling them from the back of their van...I've heard tons of stories from people saying they've gotten amazing deals that way and some stories of people getting screwed that way. So I hooked them up, gave them a thorough listen, and decided they kicked enough ass for me. Great low and midrange, not bad high either Similar Products Used: Tons of speakers, my dad owns a speaker shop |