Mids and highs are extremely clear especially for a two-way speaker. Black ash and Vinyl grills are stylish and would go well with most decor. Integrated feet on bottom of speakers along and 28lb weight per speaker give them substance which would be a better choice for places where a book shelf /stand combo might not work.

Bass level is typical for book sheld speakers but the deep prt design allows you to tweak/poistion the speakers to achieve improvements to an acceptable level.

While this product is older I thought I would provide a more current review for those who may come across a pair of these in the secondary resale market. I was fortunate to find a pair in excellent shape and have hooked them up to a Pioneer VSX-516. The sound quality is very good with strengths in the mid and high ranges. While Infinity calls these Floor Speakers I would argue they are more like bookshelf speakers with intergrated stands. The "deep ported" design is I think meant to add/create bass these speakers do not provide the deep bass normally associated with floorstanders as compared to book shelf models. They are not totally lacking bass it is just that as others have mentioned they can use a little help from a subwoofer. I have been playing mostly classical music with them and the clarity and imaging is very good. I would recommend them for anyone looking for speakers to fill a small to medium sized room. I also experimented with using them as the front pair in my HT set-up and they meshed well with the Bose VCS-10 and 161'S. They are also styled well and have a high WAF and have a small foot print.

Little bass, but with a subwoofer it will make up for that. Notice some distortion in some Dolby Digital soundtracks.

Pretty good speakers. Bought them for $380 a pair and was glad that I did. Tough to beat for that price.

The mid range the high range and the size vs power.

Besides the weak bass, the speaker material on the front picks up a lot of dust and is hard to clean.

I got a pair of the Infinity Reference speakers through J&R Electronics in Manhattan during a clearance sale. I
was looking for a pair of floor standing speakers for my apartment that were attractive as well as having great
sound capabilities. I compared them with other speakers for that price range in the listing room and I was very
pleased how the sound cut through the room. The mid and high levels were extremely crisp and clean but I
wasn't pleased with the bass at all. I decided to purchase them anyway because you couldn't beat the price. After
2 months of constant use, I decided I needed a subwoofer. I had the base control turned all the way to the max
on my 70 watt Yamaha receiver and that was only producing a decent bass sound. I notice all the stress I was
putting on the woofers and was afraid of damaging them. I when and got the BU-1 subwoofer from Infinity
without even testing it out and couldn't believe the difference when I hooked it up. The speakers themselves
were only producing half the base the subwoofer could and that was turned all the way up. Now I have the base
level a 5 and get twice the base without putting to much stress on the Reference speakers. I would recommend
the speakers if you can find them or the RS-4's which are supposedly even better.

These speakers are great speakers. They have outstanding treble and midrange. They handle power pretty well also. Though only problem was that I hear them bottoming out at high volume and the bass turned up. It sounds like a loud popping noise. The bass isn't that impressive. I have to keep the bass pegged at low volume, to keep it from cutting out. I would recommend a subwoofer to be used with these speakers.

I have been through almost every kind of speaker amaginable. Everything from Cerwin Vegas to pioneers. Towers, bookshelves, floorstanding, you name it I have had it. I recently bought these infinitys because they were on sale for a very reasonable price. I was absolutley blown away by the sound I recieved from them. I have them hooked up to a Kenwood AV reciver, but always use for stereo. It pumps out 60 watts a channel. The clarity from these speakers is something to brag about. I would recomend these speakers to anyone who wants a good bang for their buck.

History and Setup
I purchased the 2000.4's for $180 per pair factory refurbished, cherry finished, and mail ordered from Damark (which means no OEM support -- part of the low price tag).
I have been living with them for a month in my (roughly) 11' by 12' dorm room -- an uneven, reflective, crowded, and generally unpleasant listening area. The floor is carpeted, and a thin blanket damps the front wall. A copmuter desk, dresser, bookshelf, and bed crowd the rear wall, while a sink dominates the left corner of the front. I sit facing an 11' wall, with the wooden roof sloping up from 8' on the right to 10' on the left. The right side wall holds a shaded window with reflective brick directly beside me, and the left is the same undamped brick with an oak door.
The speakers are 39" from the side walls and 35" from the back wall (measured from the tweeter), with roughly 20 degrees toe-in. My listening position is a rolling chair, but I usually sit 76" from the pair. I have installed spikes on two front corners of the speakers, tilting the front baffles about 5 degrees back to put my head in the center of the vertical dispersion field.

Ancillary Equipment

I have the Infinities wired via Monster Superflat Mini cable to a Sharp CMS-R500AV, which runs 25 WPC into 8 Ohms. My sources include a five disc cd changer with a 16-bit DAC, a tuner, dual tape decks, and an IBM PC with an Avance sound card.

The Important Part

Overall tonal quality is dark, but not over muted -- vocals are clear, and most instruments are well defined and articulate. The 2000.4's lack the transient attack and air moving capacity needed to accurately recreate a bass drum, and cymballs are blurred -- but triangles, violins, acoustic guitars, pianos, cellos, and a slew of other instruments are very musical and lifelike. The two afforementioned were the only serious instrument-specific flaws I noticed, a fact of which I am very pleased for a speaker in the under-$500 class.
Bass rolls off around 43 Hz in-room (my aural estimate of the -2dB point). I have made sure to eliminate any mid-bass peak by moving the speakers a little farther from the back wall than one usually would in a room of this size; it sounds quite smooth and believeable now. The bottom-ported design made for a great deal of experementation and compromise in spike choice. I chose the "front only" anchoring to balance transient response with low end boost and listening position comfort -- I would use four much smaller spikes on a stand if I owned stands.
The soundstage extends from the outside edge of one speaker to the other horizontally, five feet vertically, and five feet past the rear wall deep. Performers in large pieces are crowded together, tiny, and tend to blur due to the size of my room, but are correct in scale with respect to each other. Smaller ensembles of five or fewer resolve almost perfectly, though. I am more than happy with their performance with more intiamte performances; I am constantly moved by solo vocals or instrumentals, but the speakers have more trouble the more complicated the piece gets.
Cabinet build quality is just what you'd expect from a mass-market $450 floorstander -- corner folded veneered particle board, injection molded plasic baffle and plinth, cheap wiring, hot glue gun sealing, and plastic nuts on the gold plated binding posts. At least they included floor spikes and didn't use spring loaded terminals.
The drivers are quite good, though, IMHO. The treated silk dome tweeter is not the least bit harsh, even though it is set into a small exponential horn. The curvilinear polypropelene woofer cone is fairly rigid, the butyl rubber surround is sturdy, and the dustcap is securely attached.

Overall Appraisal and Comparison

I am happy with Infinty's RS2000.4, especially at the price I paid. If you are doing horizontal comparison at its retail price, I would say it is as good as Polk's RT-7, and better than anything by Klipsch, Bose, Boston Acoustics, Optimus, or DCM. I liked what I heard from Mission and Energy, but have not auditioned their lines enough to make educated comparisons. I have not auditioned PSB, KEF, Paradigm, Cambridge Soundworks, or NHT at all.
The final word -- if you can find them for less than three hundred a pair, buy them. Otherwise, shop around for sales and other special deals.

Four stars for the fact that despite all of the flaws I nitpicked, I truly enjoy listening to these speakers, and recomend them HEARTILY to anyone able to find a good deal.
I welcome all e-mail reguarding this posting, and appreciate correction of any (content) errors I might have missed.

Aaron Boyer

My first pair of Infinity speakers, and I must say they are great. These speakers have excellent imaging, crystal clear highs ( not overstated though ), a full and smooth midrange, and accurate clean bass. I admit that these speakers do not put out tremendous ammounts of bass, but hey......all they have is 6.5" drivers, so what do you expect. The bass that they do put out, might not have a lot of impact, but it is very audible and sounds good. Plus, that just gave me another reason to run out and get a big fat powered sub. However, after subjecting these speakers to everything from Schubert to loud industrial drum and bass, they make it all sound good. Personally I like to have these speakers about 15 feet apart, 2 feet out from the corner of a wall, and I like to leave the rear spikes off and aim them up more with the front spikes. Overall these speakers are great for the money, and I would reccomend them to anyone of any musical preference.

the infinity 2000.4 is speaker thats worth every penny. if you can invest in a pair you wont be dissappointed. the silk dome tweeter is smooth and crystal clear. no listening fatigue hear. these speakers excell when combined with blues , jazz, classical and pop music. these are not made to hammer out metallica!! the bass respones is very clear and defined, very natural. not a throbbing bass. leave that to vegas. the sound stage is unbelieveable. close your eyes and you can see the whole stage in your mind. definetly a great speaker for a great price.

I hate to be a bad sport here... but my experience with a pair of Infinity Reference 2000.4's was not very good at all. Let me elaborate to make myself clear as I normally do not place negative posts.
I tried the pair and sound wise I liked them. Okay so far so good. The treble was fine, the mids were really smooth - however the bass was another issue.

Using a 75w/ch Yamaha receiver I noticed that at high volume the woofers sounded as though they were "bottoming out". Odd I thought... so since I was curious as to how deep the bass went anyway I pulled out my copy of the Stereophile Test Disk One and played the bass test tones. Indeed at a resonable level (not insanely loud IOW) the woofers were running out of excursion fast and hard! This seemed very wrong... so I look a hard look at them only to see that I had in fact damaged the surround glue - and I never "beat" on them! I took the speakers apart and was shocked at how cheap the woofer is... very little driver behind that nice plastic face. When a smallish woofer is used - it has to have excursion to reproduce low bass and resonable volume... these do not at all!

Infinity has done better than this with their affordable lines in the past - and these are discontinued. Let's hope they do better next time.

I recently purchased 2000.4's and I'm very pleased. I thought they performednicely against the other speakers in the $400 to $600 price range. Since
I only paid $200 for them, it makes my enjoyment even greater.