Editorial Review :

Kenwood's HTB-503 combines an A/V receiver, with two main speakers, two surrounds, a sub woofer and a center channel, that provide everything you need for a complete surround sound experience. The top-quality receiver incorporates an enormous array of input and output terminals for easy connectivity to the speakers, and all of your other home theater components. And with Kenwood engineering and reliability, the HTB503 will make your home audio system rock.The system features 100 watts per channel surround power, DTS digital surround, Dolby digital and Dolby Pro Logic, S-Video connections, 2-way magnetically shielded front left and right speakers with dual woofers, magnetically shielded center speaker, 2 surround speakers with built-in wall mount brackets, 8" powered subwoofer with built-in 100 watt RMS amplifier and universal pre-programmed remote control.

Customer Review :

its great

i love this system. its the best surround sound system out on the market for rhis price..

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An excellent system at an even better price

This is a great system at the price and supplies more than enough power for throwing some great house parties. Actually this system has a lot going for it besides price and power. Setup of the reciever was actually quite easy and I have never even attempted setting up anything like this before. All of the speakers have their own colored coating wires and tabs so you can't go wrong there. The set comes with a quick start poster and a seperate instruction manual for each individual Kenwood component.

However I did run into some trouble setting up all my other components...i.e. game platforms, DVD, and VCR...but Kenwood tech support walked me through the whole process and even sent me some tech hints to my e-mail address.

I guess the only bad thing about the system is the size of the remote. The darn thing is TINY and the buttons are really TINY so I am always pressing the wrong button but if you have small hands then it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Oh a couple of other things one should look for before purchasing. Make sure the reciever has an S-video connection because the VR-407 and the V7030D are the only two recievers that have the S-video jacks. And the last thing is that the length of the speaker wire for the sattelite speakers may be too short for optimal place settings. Other than these couple minor gripes this system is a great buy and produces excellent sound. My dad has had his Kenwood system for over 20 years hopefully I can be as lucky as well.

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Great Deal at a Great Price

Fantastic system at a low price considering what all you get for your money. Set-up is a snap with easy to use Connect Guide. Its able to pump out a lot of sound and with good component devices (DVD, CD Player, etc.), the sound will blow you away. The remote could be a little easier to use and the speaker wire that comes with it is a little skimpy, but overall you'll get the proverbial bang for your buck out of this system.

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1. Home theater speaker system with up to 600 watts of total power output
2. One 8-inch powered subwoofer with 100 watts of output
3. One center channel, four satellites
4. Magnetically shielded speakers
5. Small, compact design

Customer Review :

The Sub woofer is very weak for being an active Sub

The Surround and bookshelf speakers sound great the sub woofer hits like a mouse and crackles if I put the sub volume 2 mpoints above minimum look some where else if want to feel any sort of rumble. I will be replacing the Sub and keeping the others

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Nice Speaker system

Had this speaker system a for about 8 month and I'm still enjoying them I got them hook up to the Pioneer-VSX-1016TXV-K-Channel-Audio-Receiver. For a home theater system in about a 24x24 family room they work very well.

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Pioneer SFCRW240LS Home Theater Speaker System

Good sound quality and price was great. My sister had recently purchased a Bose for a significant amount of money and her system doesn't sound that much better considering the price difference.

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PIONEER HAS IT GOING ON

I AM VERY HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE. THE QUALITY OF SOUND WOWS EVERYONE THAT HEARS THEM. I HAVE SINCE BOUGHT 2 MORE OF THE SPEAKER SYSTEMS BECAUSE THEY ARE SO WELL LIKED BY EVERYONE INCLUDING ME. BESIDES, I NEEDED TWO SUBWOOFERS (ONE FOR EACH SIDE OF MY ENTERTAINMENT CENTER). A BIG THANKS PIONEER AND AMAZON.

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A very good inexpensive Home Theater Speaker System

I paired this Pioneer SFCRW240LS Home Theater Speaker System with a Harman-Karden AVR335 receiver and couldn't be more pleased. You may find better speakers but for a (12 ft. by 18 ft.)family room, they are quite adequate. The color and style goes quite well with most interior room decor and I feel that this speaker system is a great buy for the price.

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1. Active speaker system contains two satellite speakers and separate amp
2. "Floating" speaker design elevates speakers for crisper sound
3. 6 watt amp produces rich sound; bass reflex woofer
4. Sigma-type magnetic circuit for powerful bass
5. Stylish speakers include AC adaptor

Customer Review :

Sony Speaker System

All around good speakers for the price. They don't handle bass real well but for their size they do an okay job with it. Mid range and treble are all real good. Music played over them is clear and distortion free. Overall a good deal.

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Sony Speakers, Used

Needed a good speaker system for my parents LCD TV/Monitor Christmas gift that they use exclusively as a tv. I had bought this exact system for my teenager about 4 years ago and was very impressed with the sound. There was a little wear on the amp, but once I hooked it up to the headphone jack and turned it on, my parents were thrilled. Sound is great and by connecting it the way I did, everything is controlled by one remote. Shipped fast, got exactly what I had hoped for. Purchased from weiwei45, to whom I'd like to say "thank you."

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Giant Killer (with a little help)

I had been looking for a better quality speaker to replace the high quality (but huge) speakers that were packaged with my new Sony R series computer. I considered the Bose media mates and others recommended on this site but most still took a significant chunk of real estate and did little to free up visual space either. So I noticed the SRS-Z1 on the Sony website and immediately thought, there is no way that those tiny little things with only three watts per channel are going to sound half as good as my current speakers but...

So here they sit on my desk, barely even noticable among the stacks of... never mind. Bottom line, if you want an all in one portable system or a simple two speaker, easy-on-the-eyes replacement for your computer speakers LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE! If however you are willing to add a subwoofer and create your own mini audiophile system BUY A SET NOW!

Without a good sub these speakers are huantingly transparent and accurate to a fualt but they have no bass what-so-ever. Imagine a set of $1.99 headphones and you'll be in the right frame of mind. Yes, the fidelity is much higher than a transister radio but the frequency loss on the low end is similiar. Once a sub with mini plug output is added however this system just opens up. Freed of the need to produce the low frequencies these speakers make mids and highs seem to hang in the air as smoothly and delicately as anything else on the market. After about ten minutes of E.Q. adjustment on my computer these speakers are comparable in sound to my (Much larger floor speakers) Bose 701s in the living room, with a little help from the sub.

If the price tag scares you, remember that prices vary wildly from shop to shop and todays latest and greatest is tomorrows bargain bin filler.



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This speakers are WAY Overpriced

If you really want portable speakers that sound great and cost a lot less go for the Bose Mediamates. They have exceptional sound quality for their size and price. Search for them and read my review on the Bose Mediamate! If you just want great speakers that go even louder than the Bose and have room shaking bass and can afford expesnive ones go for the Bose Companion 3! It is an AMAZING speaker system and it is like $20 more dollars than htis Sony speakers... go to www.bose.com and take a look at it under the Game and PC Section!

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Exceptional Sound Imaging

I work in Pro audio and got turned on to these by a friend who already used them and let me borrow his set first. The sound imaging and clarity is exceptional for their size and price, but people who don't specifically listen for detail might want to be able to add more low-end. For me this is the perfect set of lightweight speakers to take on the road with my laptop.

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1. Delivers home-theater sound from your game console
2. 5.1 surround sound supports Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II and five-channel stereo
3. Satellite speakers feature 0.75-inch metalized polymer tweeter and 3-inch metalized fiber-composite midbass woofer
4. 100-watt, 6.5" fiber-composite cone subwoofer
5. Satellites have self-supporting ball-joint pedestals with 45-degree range of motion

Customer Review :

yeah

I love it it rocks.
What sucks is that you really need a nice sound card to really enjoy it.
I am using my onboard Nvdia sound drivers with digital optical. I can hear the pc noise in it sometimes. Basically to really enjoy it I would have to buy a nice Sound card that can do Dolby encoded signal.
For the price
Buy it.

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Great PC speakers

I have been using these speakers for about two years now they sound great. The bass is very powerfull, Note AM USING IT WITH FOUR SUBWOOFERS. Roger Waters (in The Flesh) just sounds awersome

J.J

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Amazing System

Like some of the previous reviewers, I can't believe some of the negativity coming out against these speakers. Most of it is user fault, thinking these will hook up easily to your pc or vcr and give you full fledged DD sound. If people actually spend time to read the specs of this system we would have no problems.

I just got these delivered 2 days ago and I must say WOW! They look great and have a good weight and solid feel to them. I bought them to use as pc speakers and hooked it up to my motherboard through an optical cable.

Sound is crisp, clear and very loud if you want it. I have no hint of any hiss or humming at all. This may be due to the optical connection, I haven't tried the RCA outs yet. The sub is plenty strong, hell with the music up loud you can use the sub as a fan, that much air pumps out of it. The control disc is also quite nice and easy to navigate.

I do wish it came with a remote and a headphone jack, but I'm still giving it 5 stars due to the quality of the product and the price($99) I paid for it.

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Best sounding system you can get for $100

I am an audio freak and used many different types of speakers in all different environments. Really, I cannot think of anything else that you can get for $100 that sounds (and never mind looks) this good. Now if they have a white version, they can sell it at Apple stores for 3 times as much =P.

I would just caution that it requires space to be setup properly. I know you cannot get away with 5 speakers and a sub, but I almost wish the control unit can be designed to stand up vertically.

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Pretty Good Speakers

I got this system on sale a while back. It was pretty easy to set up except for movies. I couldn't get proper surround sound if my card processed the DD signal then sent it digitally to the speakers. I also couldn't get many of my sound card's nifty features to work correctly, even using a digital connection. I got it mostly working right and it sounds great, it was just a pain to figure out how to get everything somewhat working. I fear my speakers may be dead now. They just made a pop and I can't get sound out of them. That was really strange, they work now after some fiddling.

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The superior performance of Ceramic Metal Matrix DiaphragmsM-^Y in a Wall-Mounted Speaker can be yours with the purchase of this On-Wall Speaker from Infinity. C.M.M.D. eliminates unwanted resonance's to deliver clear, undistorted sound, which is exactly what you're looking for in a speaker! Using an ultrathin enclosure that measures only 4 1/2 inches deep, the OWS-1 is ideal for use as a wall-mounted surround channel or as an alternative to in-wall speakers. Get what you're looking for right here!

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