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HC5 Home Theater Speaker System

HC5 Home Theater Speaker System

(Black - MPN: HC5B)
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2.5 Star Review(2 Reviews)

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Date Reviewed:  06/23/2005
  • wahlbbe
    • from FL
  • Member Since:
    Jun 2005

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Strengths: Amazing value. Nothing else comes close. I think I paid about $170 shipped. You MUST, however, have a receiver that can adjust the DSP bass crossover in some way. See below...
Weaknesses: Will sound very poor with default Dolby Digital bass crossover settings.
Summary: As long as you adjust your Bass Management this system will sound great! How to do this, depends on what type of receiver you are using. I have an Onkyo TX-SR600, and I found that setting the "crossover" to 120 Hz produced the best results. This is a higher crossover than the default Dolby Digital.

I have also successfully set these speakers up with the smaller Onkyo TX-SR500. It does not have a setting for crossover, but by selecting small speakers, similar results are obtained.

I would also say that, having seen both, the black ones look nicer than the silver ones.

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Date Reviewed:  12/21/2003
  • ask
  • Member Since:
    Dec 2003

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1 Star ReviewThese speakers don't sound much better than a boom ...
Strengths: None.
Weaknesses: Harsh sound. Poor crossover to subwoofer.
Summary: These speakers don't sound much better than a boom-box with a boomy subwoofer added on. The sound is thin, harsh, yet boomy at certain frequencies. Impossible to get a good balance of frequencies. I'm dumping these...

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