Hi Scott!
-> I did as everyone suggested last week and listened to them, compared
-> them to some of their bigger speakers. For such small speakers they
-> have incredible bass and the tweeters give them a very nice clean
-> open sound, they actually sounded better on the high end than the
-> bigger speaker with a similar tweeter. He played a couple of
-> different sources for me, but most familiar to me was the Rush tape
-> and Red Barchetta, the cymbals sounded clear and crisp, unlike my
-> Bose do. I put them on layaway yesterday but won't likely have them
-> paid off soon, between my computer dying and someone breaking in to
-> my truck and making off with my tool box I am flat broke.
 Between the computer and getting ripped off, it's been an interesting
week for you! But then, you did get a set of the Optimus based on
listening and seem to agree that they sound good to you and that they
were a great value at that sale price. As  the song says, "If it wasn't
for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!"...  the last time my BBS
computer crashed, that was the end of the BBS. After 13 years, I threw
in the towel on that to spend more time in the studio doing something
constructive *:>.
-> The only problem I see with the speakers is they can't be hung on the
-> wall like my current Bose 201's are and the bracket Rat Shack  sales
-> is a shocking $40 and ugly too boot.
For $40, you probably could get some L brackets, shelving material and
have them and a few dozen other things "Levated" like you want.
 I think that your question regarding a possibly dubious
quality product in an echo filled with audiophile and pro audio snobs
like this could have seemed to show that most of us are more sensible
than to have an attitude about something that doesn't cost under $1000
for even the connectors. There are some excellent sale values in the
budget stereo shops, if you listen with objective ears and be a little
wary.
I have an all cone set of speakers that I heard at a close out at a
local electronics parts store, TEAC 6112's.. I got both of them for $100
(have never checked to see what the list price was originally but
estimate about $600 for the pair) about 8 years ago, and to this day,
they are in my control room used as one of the available speaker systems
to listen to material with as a repressentative of a "good average home
speaker system". I think they will be retired to my personal computer
system speaker soon as it gets upgraded for full multimedia usage.
Bonnie *:>
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