Very transparent sound, With good amp, these speakers are fantastic.

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It does not figure how someone can buy a wood cabinet with three drivers that sound and look this good for $200 a pair. Just going to any retail store shows me that for 2 or 3 hundred you get crap. These speakers sound unbelievable, and if someone told me they were $1000 for the pair, I would not flinch. Recently bought a Sony STRDA777ES and man these speakers take this beast's power and sound unreal. These speakers perform as well as any I have lisene to at any price. I hooked up a Klipsch sub and the highs from the silk tweeters mixed with the solid bass is great. Look at this price, they make great plantstands. You can't go wrong! I would give more than 5 stars if I could.

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True, clean sound reproduction

grills

OK, I'm just getting into real audio after many years of ignoring it. They always say you should put your money (half of it, anyway) into the speakers. I didn't have to do that because these speakers were such a killer deal. I honestly didn't believe my old speakers were too bad until I hooked up these Wharfedales. The difference was truly unbelievable! Alluvasudden I started to understand terms like "soundstage" and "brightness". Right out of the box, these monitors sounded awesome. After break-in, are they better? I don't know about that, but I know I am one happy camper!

I've read that the bass response is weak with these speakers. To that I say that these are *monitors*. That means they should reproduce the sound that was recorded. In the music I play (alt.country, jazz, clapton, santana, dylan, zevon, other rock) the bass is wonderfully reproduced. Do you really need a speaker to overdrive the bass until you have organ damage? I don't. I want, as my brother describes, "Bob Dylan standing at the end of my living room singing to me". I get that with these speakers.

Finally, do I work for ubid? I do not. In fact, they piss me off with their shipping policies (and costs) and (lack of) customer service. But you can't beat the Wharfedale MFMs at that price. It's a fantastic deal. If you are looking to upgrade a low end stereo system like me, this is a great place to start. With speakers like these, you'll be able to tell what other components need help and whether your new component purchases are any help. Buy these speakers!

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Price, nice sound, bi-wireable

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Great sound for the money. Nice imaging and look great without the grills! The bi-wire capability is fine and the bass is better than I thought it would be.

Get these if ubid has many left. These will keep me until I save towards the Vandersteens I want!

Nice find.

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I don't care what people say about this speaker. This is a great pair of monitors. I agree the grills are somewhat cheap but some other brands do not have better grills either. The sound of this MFM-5 is superb. As soon as I hooked them up to my system (don't even need to wait until breaking in), I was totally impressed by the sweet, clean sound. The soundstage is very wide and balanced. The treble is crisp but not too sharp. The midrange is very natural and clean. The bass is very tight and powerful. In fact, I like the MFM-5 as much as my MB Quart D55, and the B&W DM 603 and the KEF Q55 which I listened to many, many times. 5 stars period.

I picked up a pair of these speakers way below list price online. These are midsized, but sound very spacious (compared to my old speakers, I thought my room had doubled in size). Tight, punchy bass, with decent low frequency extension for such small drivers. Highs are nice, "airy"; mids slightly bright at very loud volumes but good at normal listening levels. Not quite as much definition or localization as I would like for home theater, but big soundstage helps makes up for it, and they handled AC-3 nicely. I powered mine with a 130W THX amp, and they played as loud as I could stand with low distortion and without any noticeable clipping. Definitely want to pair with a good sub for heavy metal, rap or home theater, but sounds great even alone for jazz/folk/pop. Bi-wirable and bi-ampable. Floor spikes included. Biggest drawback are the flimsy grills--the pegs break way to easy. Speakers look better without them anyway. Otherwise build quality fair; Black ash finish below average. Not quite as solid as you would expect for a $600 speaker (these things are light!). Don't pay full price, but good sound...

SOUND, Looks, warranty

Authorized Dealer list (shallow)
ONLY Ubid has the prices worth buying so far

Where are we headed in todays home theater systems?
First I had the thunderous 15" Woofers in the HUGE speaker boxes hooked to my old JVC 707VTN Receiver. Then we moved into the, "size means nothing" era. At that time I used JBL small, cube style fronts and rears with my Velodyne sub to fill in the bass.
Well, here we are again with the larger, yet WAY more safisticated speakers. These Wharfedale MFM-5 speakers are not only perfect for ANY SIZE room, they also compliment the make-up and stylings of your home theater with, what I find to be, GREAT sound right out of the box.
These speakers can really make you the FEEL your home theater or even your CD collection when playing through your system.
There is NO lack of bass reflex, though I reccomend a good high quality Sub for the real deep frequencies. These speakers are WELL worth the meezly cash you can get them for on UBid. They range anywhere from $49-$79 on U-bid, so far that I have seen.
They, so far have really suprised me. When you first buy them you think to yourself, "How can something that cheap really sound any goog"?
Well, your questions are answered as soon as they are hooked up and played to your favorite tunes or movies.
I am currently using them with the Modus Music Center and the MFM-3's as rears and could NOT be happier!
I have to give them a high rating! I think that they out perform any of the speakers in this price range and even in some of the higher price ranges.
Even if I had bought them and was even considering being disappointed in their sound; at the price you pay, how can you be disappointed in THAT?

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Good sound for $185 including shipping
Good highs

exclusive vendor - ubid sucks
build quality
build quality

Saw reviews here and saw auctions at ubid. I figued I'd give it a shot. Bid on and won 2 speakers. Over the next 2 weeks I recieved *3* speakers. Great heh? No... 2 of the 3 arrived broken. Identical fault with both - tweeters work, mids and woofers have no signal at all.

After some confused back and forth from ubid the only thing they would do is send me tags to send them back to them. they said they could not replace them since they didn't have any more (16 were on current auction at that very moment). After a week of waiting and getting no return tags (I still haven't) I decide to punt. Probably just a simple broken connection on both the defectives.

Open up the back and see the problem. The fairly heavy crossover hangs from the back plate via 4 little tin tabs connected to the speaker binding posts. How stupid a design is that? Bounce these guys on a truck shipping and probably half of them will break. One tab was broken on one and both lower ones (woofer connects) broken on the other. I did a quick and dirty repair on one and hooked it up with the one that arrived working. Worked fine. I need to go back and do a better repair when I can find something to replace the fragile factory connects.

The theory that a lot of the reviews here are ubid shills is corraborated by the fact that there are not more reports of DOA speakers. Simple physics says that a high percentage *must* arrive dead.

So... sound. Pretty good. Not $1000 list good, but pretty good for < $200. Break-in is an issue. Since one speaker had been hooked up for a week and half before the other I could compare side by side. Quite different. they've evened out now and sould fine. I haven't tried biwiring them yet, I may give that a try.

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DO ALL OF THE REVIEWERS AT THIS SITE WORK FOR UBID.COM?

I THINK THEY DO

OKAY, I AM A SUCKER AND WENT FOR THE CHEAP PRICE AT UBID.COM. THESE ARE NOT THE ONCE GREAT BRITISH MADE SPEAKERS, BUT ARE CHEAP CHINESE MADE PRODUCTS. LOOK CHEAP. SOUND CHEAP. ARE CHEAP. DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR-GO TO BEST BUY AND GET A PAIR OF ANYTHING ELSE. REMEMBER: "IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS" DON'T BE A SUCKER.

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These speakers are garbage and sound like there chinese speakers from the swapmeet. Very cheap components, all plastic. The picture looks good though!... My question is, who in the hell is reviewing these speakers with good comments, they must be working for ubid or Wharfedale?

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MFM-5 is probably one of the best mid-sized monitor speaker on the market , crisp detailed highs, good bass for the size. Ill stack it up against anything under a grand.

well not enough bass.(you have to expect that for the size). good enough for normal music listening rock, jazz, orchestra. Techno and hip-hop requires a sub-woof.. (always use a SUB for HT!)

Well actually an UNBELIEVABE U-Bid story.. ordered on tues.. arrived on Sat. (still don't have my bi-polars from u-bid after 17 days) Well if anyone knows good speakers you know they all sound pretty crappy out of the box.. they need to be run-in. Now I read other reviews saying weeks or months, (well maybe if you listen to em 20 mins a day). I gave these puppys a steady diet of Spyro Gyra,Earl Klugh,and Four Play for 6 hours.. moderately loud. this smoothed out the highs. Then switched it to seager, floyd, terrible ted, and ac/dc, and some cyprus hill. Of course you have to crank it up just a bit more... again 6-8 hrs. The I went totally techno and fed them 4 hrs of KMFDM. In less than 24 hrs these bad boys were relaxed and perfect.
Popped in good ole Barry White and what can i say PERFECT!!. Whatever you do if you get a chance to get these monitors for under 500. You have to do it! Bose don't come close, and a modified 736, has more bass but isnt quite as crisp. Any bad reviews of this speaker must have been clouded by bad experiences with u-bid. If you dont agree with me by a set break em in.. and IF YOU DONT LIKE EM. Sell em to someone and double your money..

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