Crisp sound, good bass, Excellent BUY!

Mid's are flat.

The Wharfedale Modus One.Six was purchased at Ubid and couldn't believe they were selling under $200 a piece!! Wharfedale, as most are aware of, are sold for in $$thousands. I picked these up for under $500 a pair and am quite pleased. The highs are crips and it has good solid bass. The only thing I had noticed was that the mids are flat. I am going to see if the speakers need to be broken in before I can hear its potential. Overall, these are a great grab!! The Modus One.Six is hooked up by my Nakamichi AV 7. So far, the sound is incredible....especially for at these prices.

Good overall sound quality, sound output is quite even throughout their range

Bass needs powerfull amplifier

These are excellent speakers specially at $284. I had to hook them up to a more powerfull amplifier to get accurate bass, but sound quality is excellent at all frequencies.

Great High's, Superb Bass, clean Mids

speakers need appropriate break in time

I bought these speakers for a great deal on Ubid, $142 each plus shipping. I purchased 4 of them and the Music Centre channel. The sounds is clean and very crisp and very realistic. The adjustable tweeters allow for a very wide soundstage. The bass is clean and crisp, the mids are smooth and tight. The center channel is awesome, and is very realistic. Watched The Matrix DVD, rocked my apartment! I have a Pioneer Elite VSX-21 and Pioneer DV-525 using all Monster Cable connects and Kimber Kable speaker wire. I went to a local Wharfedale dealer and they were asking $699 per speaker plus tax. That's almost $2800 just for the speakers, plus tax and the center channel. Ubid has some EXCELLENT deals! I gove these speakers a 10 on value and a 10 overall, if I could!

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sound quality is very good especially the highs and the bass.

the mid's are not as dynamic as other speakers I have listened to.

I love my modus one.six for the price i got them for. The sound is not as dynamic as I would expect from a mid/high fi product (1300-1800 per pair retail). I wouldn't pay anywhere near retail for these speakers, but from UBID, I was able to get these for 127 each (new) so how can I complain.

Placement is really important with these speakers. When I first got them, I was very disappointed because they sounded so flat. After a lot of experimenting with the placement, I found that these speakers really come alive. The bass is very tight and the highs are very clear. Even the mids sound good.

I found that the construction is not very good. The veneer is buckling in several places. It's such a shame since these speakers do look good.

Overall, I would get another pair if I could get them under $500. I'm giving my rating based on the price. Otherwise, I would give them a solid 3.5 (definitely better than average).

Great sound, value

none

These speakers took a week or two the break in, although they were very nice right from the start. The adjustable tweeter is worth fiddling with. At UBid prices ($142ea.) you can't do any better.

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sound, sound, and sound

cosmetics: cabinet finish material

Right out of the box they sounded great even when strung with miles of 18gauge lamp wire; bi-wired the next day with 14gauge speaker wire really turned them on. Anyone know why Wharfedale decided to have this 'fire sale' on such a fine product ? Anyone planning for a tower unit that can 'free stand' must consider these.

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Great deep bass. Subwoofer !? We need no stinking Subwoofers !!!

The tweeter looks like a damn ugly tumor

I paired a couple of those babes with a Yamaha HTR-5170. Took them a week to start opening up and man, what a sound !!! I never knew Beethoven before I heard him in those. Perl Jam rocked my house (and the few adjacted houses as well) and the Jazz music with the "Jazz Club" mode in my Yamaha made me feel like sitting next to the band in a nice dark bar.

Importand piece of advice though, as I said before no need for a subwoofer with those, but it also means that bad positioning will mean muddy booming bass all the time till you start asking yourself which way would you like to burn them.
So, like in real estate, location is everything ;-)

There are much better solutions out there, but for this price my setup gave me way way more than anything else in this price range and even in a price range a few hundreds of dollars above.

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well gang, I tweaked this pair physically, until I am blue in the face, as my grandma used to say.
The bottom line is this: Even with two strips of Dynamat on the tweeters, the damn things just pick up too much vibration from the box ... isolate a tweeter on top and see what I mean...I have done so and the speakers have come alive:
Additionally, for under $100 I have:
Dynamatted the interior of the midrange box; put Mortite around all seams inside; stuffed the midrange and woofer area with loads more of acousta stuff or dacron (you could try wool) after lining the bottom with foam first.
I have similarly dampened the flimsy speaker covers with Mortite, adhesive-backed foam sold for weatherstripping, and plugged evey hole that the covers go into with Mortite first.
Similarly, I put Mortite on the surrounds when I put the speakers back and in the back of the speaker panels. I also put Dynamat on the pieces of speaker panels.
Finally, since I had a pair of old speakers to cannibalize, I replaced the midrange speaker with a pair of Kevlar B+Ws. The tweeters I picked up cheap are excellent sounding Philips.
The speakers sound like full-range audiophile gear now and are in my audio listening room.
I would guess that I put too much stuffing in the bass area, but I can fiddle with that another day.
Also, for $1.29 I bought an eight-foot foam pipe cover, cut it in quarters and velcroed it to the outside of the wood corners. On the top (when I was still teaking the original tweeter, I placed felt where the tweeter hits.
Also placed some foam on top of the cabinet where the rearward tweeter sound would bounce off.
But, as I said, until you place another tweeter on top -- well buffered from the box -- you will not be able to appreciate the sound, even as cute as the original tweeters look. I didn't feel like tearing back into the speakers to see if I could detach the original tweeter somehow.
You can find most of the dampening material in the window section of your hardware store.
It was fun. But is it worth it?
If you are using them in a decent audio system, it is.
If you are using them in a tv theater system, it probably isn't. But that reflects my bias. In my theater room I have an old pair of electro-voice Ds. They will suffice.
Boy, it feels good to get this out. And I am sure I didn't do everything right.
I hope this is of interest to some of the owners. Especially you guys who only paid $300 on the blowout sale.
Good Listening
bob

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Sounded great

None for that price

Unfortunatley I never got a chance to enjoy these speakers.
I bought them from UBID and one of them arrived DOA.
The one speaker that did work sounded great. I couldnt bring myself to disconnect it at first and listened to it solo. I found it to be very clear and a steal for the price. It did lack some bass and I would have probably ended up getting a sub to go with these. BUT, I never let these speakers properly break in, soooo....
Too bad UBID would not replace the dead speaker. They only allowed me to return the set for a refund (which I'm still waiting for).
If you managed to get a pair of these on UBID for under $300 (including shipping) like I did, you got should go to jail for grand theft.
It's literally killing me that they I was so close to enjoying these speakers on a daily basis, but yet I still managed to lose out out on an unbelievable deal.
As a side note to the speakers, or UBID rather--THEY SUCK!!!! In you are fortunate enough have your item arrive in working condition sit back and relax, but if your like me and had a problem, plan on waiting atleast 2 months and many emails to get anywhere at all. These people have no telephone # and only deal through email which they never answer. And if they actually do answer they are of absolutley no help.
Now that this painful experience is almost over I've decided to just go out and pay full price at a local dealer for a new set of speakers--its not worth dealing with UBID in the event that something goes wrong. Heed my warning--I WOULD RATHER PAY FULL PRICE FOR SPEAKERS THAN TO DEAL WITH THE RETURN DEPARTMENT AT UBID!!!
5 stars on value if you got a working pair for under $300 like me--4 stars for overall, one speaker did arrive DOA--this might have actually been Wharfdales fault--who knows

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Just an addendum to my last review -

I had seen a posted message here that suggested that Wharfedale was selling their speakers so cheaply because they had decided not to come into the U.S. market. First , Wharfedale has been selling their speakers in this country for over 20 years.

Second, when I spoke with tech support at IAG I asked them about this and why they were discounting their speakers so much. According to Bob at tech support, this was a promotion both to increase the U.S. exposure and because they have new lines they are releasing.

Also I believe (not certain here) that they might be discontinuing some of the existing lines, only because I got an email from the U.K. Wharfedale division indicating the Modus center has already been discontinued and reccommending the sapphire center.