Kenwood KVS 64 Surround Speakers

Kenwood KVS 64 Surround Speakers 

DESCRIPTION

GENERAL FEATURES

  • Frequency Response: 80Hz - 20kHz
  • Impedance: 6 ohms
  • Multiple Component Crossover Network
  • Sensitivity: 92dB

    SPEAKER FEATURES

  • 2-Way Design
  • Acoustic Suspension Enclosure
  • Bipolar Configuration
  • Dipolar Configuration
  • Power Handling: 60 Watts
  • Tweeter: 1/2" Titanium Dome (2)
  • Wall Hangable
  • Woofer: 4-1/2" (2)

  • USER REVIEWS

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    [Mar 04, 2003]
    KT Hackshaw
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    Price,Price,Price! Value for money. Did I say price? Good looking speaker if you have the patience and time to paint them to fit your listening area

    Weakness:

    Wish they came in black

    For the price you cannot go wrong. I snagged 4 of these for $100 at UBID and I haven't regretted it at all. I painted them to match my living room (even the grilles) and use them as my rear and side surrounds in a 7.1 system. They sound awesome for DTS-ES movies and listening to Norah Jones in 7-channel stereo is incredible to say the least. I'm not an audio fanatic by any means, but I really do think you would be hard pressed to find anything at 2-3 times the price that compares to these. To those who say they can't handle bsaa-hat's what a sub is for, duh!

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    5
    VALUE
    RATING
    5
    [Sep 22, 2002]
    bionicjay
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    • power handling • low distortion • bi-polar • price

    Weakness:

    appears that they scratch easily

    I cannot believe my ears, I'm on tight budget and wanted to spend as little as possible (for now) to add rear channels to my system. Great bang for the buck, these puppies sound great on 6ch stereo on my reciever.

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    3
    VALUE
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    4
    [Apr 03, 2002]
    Aaron
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    Compact size, decent sound and price.

    Weakness:

    None for what I use them for

    These are great speakers for the price. I am using them as rear surround speakers in a 7.1 setup. They do exactly what they are supposed to do...fill in rear sound. For the price you cannot go wrong. I do not know how they would do as surround speakers in a 5.1 setup. Easy installation, and nice look.

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    OVERALL
    RATING
    4
    VALUE
    RATING
    5
    [Dec 19, 2001]
    Jonathan
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    Clean and clear, Nice looking, Wall mountable, well made, very nice connectors and a clear value!

    Weakness:

    Not much bass

    Four simple words BANG FOR THE BUCK! I was looking for some wall mountable bipole or dipole surrounds. I run across these for 101 dollars including shipping. Bam I got wall mountable surrounds. About a quarter as much as my Paradigms. How do they sound? Great for surrounds. I listned to Star Wars EP1 and was blown away. I couldnt believe these cost as little as they did. No they arnt as good as my Paradigm ADP 350's. But compare the MULAH spent. If yo want low cost surrounds. Buy these.

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    5
    VALUE
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    5
    [Jan 21, 2002]
    Byran Sears
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    Build Quaility, Color, Price, Sound

    Weakness:

    Versatility, Cover over the speakers

    These speakers are excellent for 29.00 each.

    As for sound, they work great for a beginning surround speaker. They don't back much bass at all, but thats what the sub is for. They sound much better than the surrounds that normally come with cheap surround speaker combo sets (which is all I have to compare it too). I can push almost 100 watts to them before I hear any distortion. These don't pack near the punch that the mains do, but they are excellent if you don't have much space for big speakers as surrounds. The are really good for circle surround while playing music and they spread out the sound fairly well during movies too.

    They look great (after you take off those ugly off-white speaker covers). They're excellent choices if you need something to place directly behind your head (for example if your sofa is placed against a wall). I really don't see much use for these if you don't have this kind of set up. For the price these speakers are definitly worth the investment.

    My system:

    Kenwood VR509
    2 Pioneer CS-G304 180 watt
    2 Kenwood KVS 64's
    1 Kenwood KVS 54
    1 Velodyne CHT 12

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    5
    [Jan 09, 2002]
    Chad Robbins
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    well built, HuGE magnets on drivers, great looking design

    Weakness:

    none to be found yet

    I too could not pass these up on ubid for 39.00 a piece. I kind of was going on a limb getting Kenwood speakers because quite honestly, they dont make the best speakers period. I was very please when I took these out of the package beacuse I figured they would be made out of cheaper material and boy was I wrong. Hopefully my main Klipsch speakers and center will not overpower these surrounds, but then again for 100.00 who cares. These sound far from the matching surround for my mains rs-3 but they cost 365.00 a pair. I will be sending 100 watts a piece to them and see how they hold up.

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    RATING
    4
    VALUE
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    5
    [Nov 22, 2001]
    Mark Davenport
    Audio Enthusiast

    Strength:

    Nicely built,modern design, clear sound does the job of surrounds very well

    Weakness:

    none

    Picked these up from Ubid for 36$ a piece and am very pleased with them. I was going to go for the polk for nearly ten time as much but when I saw these had a very similar design and were 39$ I could pass them up. These are very well made speakers, very solid but not to heavy, the speaker posts are nice also which was a surprise from being so in expensive. Overall very well built the drivers are not cheap feeling either.

    Sound is well balanced not harsh and the dual driver design spreads out the music very well which is what you want surrounds to do. Overall you can't go wrong with these for only 39$. BTW these handle 70 watts not 60, the back of the actual speakers say 70watts.

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