Good bass, solid mid and tweeter quality. I can hear every little noise, with low distortion at higher volumes.

Not much woofer movement, and grilles are not very well made.

All around good set of affordable speakers.

I bought these speakers from Radio Shack, and I must say that they are awesome. The woofers are 12 inches and produce exceptional sound, when hooked up to my Kenwood Reciever that pumps out 100w x2. I'll tell you, a friend of mine has Sony speakers that are rated at 200 watts peak and he actually told me that my Technics speakers sound better than his own.

They look kick ass!

They aren't!

Certainly not setting the world on fire with sound quality but for the price and the right application they work just fine! I used these as my basement 'house party' speakers for years - they look big and imposing and when wired up sound comes out of them - what more do you want at this price? Bass is surprisingly present considering the woofer has hardly any travel at all and the tweeter has a kind of 'hissing' quality to it.

I always liked they way these looked more than their sound but I wouldn't discourage anyone from giving these a serious look for their den, basement or rec. room. As an added bonus they're so large you can use them for end tables or lay them flat on their sides (butting them back-to back , speakers out) to make a "sonic" coffee table.

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Had some old Kenwoods before these that were almost identical in every way.

I bought these speakers with the intention of adding more bass to my system in the 80-400 Hz range. I have a Cerwin Vega! SUB120 that creates seismic disturbances but does not do mid-bass. These speakers perform very well connected to my Technics SA-X720 home theatre receiver. The only thing that disappoints me with these SB-A28 speakers is that if I did not have a subwoofer, I would have very little thump at all. These speakers have a 12" woofer and an adequately large cabinet but produce very little low-end thunder. I feel sorry for people that do not own subwoofers. The trend in speakers seems to be going towards home-theatre only. Even speakers with large woofers do not make bass like speakers, say, ten years old do. My brother has a set of LXI (SEARS) speakers that have a 10" woofer and are about ten years old and they produce as deep a bass note as the many speakers I have listened to in the $200-600 range.

Awesome Bass that goes down to ( 25 Hz ) the bass sounds relly good nice clarity ( room filling bass that goes verry loud ) good mids and highs

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these speakers are great if you buy theses you dont need to buy a subwoofer the 12'' cone goes down to 25 Hz these speakers sound so good i'm glad i bought them plus they look nice to 35" tall , 14" wide / 12" depth .
these speakers also have two large port holes in the front they also look nice.
the hole speaker is finished with all black with a verry good looking black grille
buy these you will be happy

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Awesome Bass that goes down to ( 25 Hz ) the bass sounds relly good nice clarity ( room filling bass that goes verry loud ) good mids and highs

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these speakers are great if you buy theses you dont need to buy a subwoofer the 12'' cone goes down to 25 Hz these speakers sound so good i'm glad i bought them plus they look nice to 35" tall , 14" wide / 12" depth .
these speakers also have two large port holes in the front they also look nice.
the hole speaker is finished with all black with a verry good looking black grille
buy these you will be happy

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I have an Aiwa mini system, and I to purchased these speakers because they I felt that i had insufficient bass. I brought them home, and at first, they were pretty good for the 200$ per pair i bought them for. But after a while i realized they wernt that good.They do have a 10 inch bass driver but it has jack for travel, so they dont "thump" like a big bass driver should. At least they provide more bass than my little mini system speakers did. O well, save up your money and buy something with a bit more travel. I think that when buying another set of speakers i will physically push the woofer in and out to see how much travel they actually have. I think that that determines how much they will shake the house.

Cheap, standard (good looking) design, 3 way, tweeter disperser, overload protection.

Connectors are bad, crossover so-so, weak box, bad tweeter driver, low efficient bass driver, ported box.

This is the speaker to go if you don't want to spend more than $500. You can get them for $150US/pair on sale. They are better than many speakers in range for up to $500.
To make good speaker out of these you need to put soft dome tweeter, usualy $20-30 a piece. You need to seal and damp the box. You can add an inductors into crossover, (NOT iron core) but this is not a must. Do not change capacitors, no improvement.
You need to reinforce a cabinet with couple of crossbars for sealed enclosure to get even deeper bass. If you do all of this you got yourself a good speaker.
You also need to reverse the midrange wires cause they are out of phase. For some reason Technics decided to do this. It sound very bad if you put another set of different speakers with this one. So put the mids in the phase, that's a MUST.
Speaker as it is, is not the one to keep for life. But it makes no sence to pay $500-600 for some other that sound even worse. To get realy better speaker than this (specialy after this improvements) you need to hit the range of $1000 and more.
I recommend this speakers to anyone with this little combo units that have realy small and bad speakers. It is speaker that plays, not the "combo". You might be surprised how good your little combo sounds.
I use this speakers for my computer sound card.

Good overall sound quality. Three-Way Speaker. 12" Woofer. Price.

Not much. Could have deeper bass tough (helped by a heavier cabinet)

I got these speakers based on some of the specs and price. They are not as heavy as they could be to provide good sound but they sound alright. I use them as the "tower" speakers in my home theather system (All Technics, except the subwoofer). Addition of a dedicated Subwoofer is a pretty good idea as it does make a huge difference.

In short, I am happy with this speakers and they deliver a good quality sound (not great, but good enough).

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