Excellent Diffused Sound, Wide Dispersion, Good Frequency Response

I picked up these rears to go with my BP7002's, Supercube 1 and C/L/R 2500. My room is rather small (10 X 12) and so I mounted them on the side wall and about a foot or so away from the back wall. That way I would be getting both the direct and reflect sound from them.

The first thing I noticed when taking them out of the box, was that they weigh more than most entire Home theater in a box systems (I believe they weigh around 11 pounds each). The build quality is excellent, as with all DefTechs, and they are timbre matched to all other speakers in the definitive line. They employ two 5 1/4 bass/mid drivers, and two 1" aluminum dome tweeters with silk surrounds. They are ported on the bottom left flank (if looking straight at them) and have removable grills if you want to check out the drivers. Mounting is cake with a solidly built single eye screw hole on the back top center of the cabinet.

To test the performance of these bad boys, I first tried out a movie first. I find that Master and Commander has some fantastic separation and made a good choice to see how they stacked up.

By being a Bipolar speaker, they have a fantastic dispersion, they are easily placed and allow you to sit in more places of the room. In the demo, the cannon balls from the ship go crashing into the sides, causing wood to go everywhere. You could pretty much feel the impact of the 18 pounders. In one portion of "Under Attack", a piece of wood is tumbles from the rear right speaker, the rear left speaker and ends up in the front left. These speakers gave that feel of spaciousness, but didn't disappoint by sounding "washed out" or sending too much sound in opposite directions.

Next, I had to see how they sounded in multi channel audio, so I popped in Blue Man Groups Complex album. Blue Man Groups music is about as dynamic as you can get, and really shows off the rear speakers well because they put so much bass and impact into the channels.

I played several tracks and quickly noticed that for one of the smallest DefTech rear bipolar speakers on the market, these speakers pounded out a surprising amount of bass and visceral impact. The flexible sticks that they use in "Sing Along" really jumped off the walls and into your room.

I can not find anything wrong with these speakers, except for the fact that they are actually meant to be used with the BP7004 and other speakers with single 5 1/4 Drivers and 1" tweeters. In the future I plan on upgrading (once I move into a bigger place) to the BPX speakers, which I will place as the side speakers and then move these bad boys to the surround rears.

See your local Definitive Technology dealer. I guarantee you will not be disappointed with these speakers, or any DefTech for that matter.