I recently pirchased the Arendal 1723 THX Monitors (the larger ones). They have totally exceeded my expectation in my 2.1 channel setup. This is a brand that should be on a short list when looking for new speakers.

Congrats man. I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about these and I’m giving them serious consideration for my first ever dedicated home theater build.

Thanks for doing this video! I agree I own the Monitor S and Center S as the front sound stage is seamless, I love it! They do have great dynamics and weight! It's so fun watching movies! 😁

Great Job, I really apreciate the work you've put into creating this video. I bet your room sounds amazing! Thank you for the movie and music recommendations also checking them out right now, Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work!

Super thorough review of some exciting speakers! I am considering them for two channel system. (I’m a drummer too!) Dynamics & clarity are important to me too! Thank you! ❤️🎶🔥‼️

great insights man, especially the way you compare and describe differences, thank you. Arendal look insanely nice, maybe one day i can swing them $$$$

Great review Daniel. I am very keen to try these speakers.

15:14 Happy to see a review from a fellow enthusiast. I, too, am considering a bed layer containing all matching speakers. Your review helped me realize the surrounds you are using essentially match the monitors and are much better suited for hanging on a wall. I think it is genius how you managed to utilize your subs as a speaker stand which arrange the right/left exactly the same height as your center. Bravo on your efforts.

Hear so many good stories about the Arendals. Thanks for this video. It should feel like a little kid unpacking his gift isn't it!?? Enjoy!!

What a great video. I watched after you mentioned you were getting a new setup in your response to me on the Basx A3 video. I didn’t have any familiarity with Arendal outside of the brands name. But I may very well put those sides on my list upgrades if I ever have the ability to score them. My system would be quite the Frankensteins Monster if I added them now. I have an Emotiva C2+ center as well as their B1+ as surrounds A1 front heights. I have SVS Prime satellites that need to be installed for rear heights. I just got a pair of Wharfedale Evo 4.2’s that replaced the B1’s as LR. I absolutely love these speakers. They aren’t perfect, of course, but music is a real treat to listen to on them and HT is fantastic. All powered by Marantz 6014, Basx A3 and Basx A500. This all took me many many years to save for and I couldn’t be happier. Except now the Arendels are on my radar. I really enjoy your presentation and approach to these videos. Keep up the great work

Seems like real valde with arendal sound, i recently moved from 683 s2 witch sounds great to top of line 700 series i am really happy now, might add arendal 1723 1s subwooofer in the future

Congratulations on the new speakers, I’ve always felt that most B&W speakers have great highs but lack in bass and mid bass, especially the 600 series. I auditioned them before going with Revel speakers. I haven’t heard Aerendal speakers myself but I’ve heard great things about them. Enjoy your new sound, I really enjoyed your review. Very detailing and enlightening.

Congrats on the new upgrade. It's a shame that many neglect the importance of the center channel. It seems to be an afterthought on most product lines, as the focus are on the front speakers. I'm glad you're reaping the benefits. I do hope that Arendal releases a true 3 way center speaker in the future. I would love to get a set of the bookshelves in, just so I can admire the build quality.

What a great video, nice content. Nice home cinema theater love it.

Congrats on a great choice😊 I think Arendal is one of the best value for money out there at the moment. There are not many in this pricerange that use HDF (which I suspect has a lot to do with the dynamics, full body etc that you speak of). A great cabinet makes it easier to exploit everything from the other components without distortion. You are absolutly right about the importance of the center channel (I have a matching tower fliped upside down behind my screen to get perfect timer with left and right🙊). The timbermatching of all speakers, are also often underrated, it IS important 🤪. Ps: you are the expert on your room, and what sounds great there. (I also use "you and your friend as a testsong. Lots if Dire Straights in general, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, and a lot of other kinds of music). 😊

Nice video and nice small home cinema dude. Arendal speakers and subs are getting very good reviews from the likes of Audioholics etc. Seem to be quite neutral with natural voices. Have you thought of in the future adding mineral/rock wool acoustic absorption panels. I see a few small foam tiles on the sides and ceiling. but with lots of speakers in a very small room bouncing sound around good acoustic room treatment is a must. Some good quality mineral wool acoustic absorption panels 100mm depth thickness on the side walls, back wall, ceiling. Will improve the speaker reflections much better than the current foam tiles. Ps. congrats on getting featured on Build Montage KZfaq channel 👌

Nice video, I have a 1723S center with 1961 towers and surround. The sound is really good 🔊 I had Klipsch Rp before

Hey, thank you for this review. Very informative. Question, I’m building a home theater and I’m torn between buying 3 of the 1723s monitors for my LCR or buying 2 1723s towers and the 1723s center. Do you think the towers would make my center channel feel weak in comparison? Which of the 2 combinations would you recommend and why?

Nice review! Could you comment on how Emotiva Basx A3 handled the Arendal FCR? Was it enough of power? Wasn't the amp heating up much? I am thinking of adding the A3 to my system and maybe someday Arendals as well, so just wondering if A3 is enough to feed them :)

Lovely review!

I just pre ordered the 1723s surround speakers and your review helped me a lot in my decision. When reading reviews of the speaker, some says the matt black finish easily shows finger prints. Have you noticed this ? I ordered the matt finish and was wondering if I should change to gloss.

Great review What electronics are you using

Very nice speaker system you have. After watching your video and other reviewers , I am thinking about buying Arendal speakers for my front LCR. One thing that concern me is that I currently have Paradigm Reference Studio 100 v5 that I bought 7 years ago for around 4k and they sounded good to me, my Center speaker is an old Matrix B&W speaker, and my surround speakers are B&W DCM 603. Do you think I will get a big improvement if I replace my current speakers with Arendal speakers ? Thanks for a good video.

Hi, I wanted ask you how much of an improvement did the Emotiva Basx A3 make on the Arendal speakers overall. Thank you

Thank you for your ideas....now I have an idea how I can set up an Arendal home theater, but let me ask you this...how dos this compare to either Perlisten or Def Tecs? And I did down load that Stevie Wonder cut...again thanks.

Did you have to go through arendal direct to get these to the uk? What was the cost of ordering this full setup? I'm wanting to have a 1723 setup for music listening, dont know if bookshelf and subs are the way to go or just the two towers...

You love my love is on fire. I prefer my love is alive by Gary Wright. Just ordered 3 1723 s monitors for my front stage. I'm excited to give them a go.

How are the mains doing on top of the subs??? asking for a friend....

I'm a noob. I got bowers and Wilkins 700s 3 way center channel and 2 Arendal 1961 L/R speakers. I think it sounds better than my local theater tbh, and I don't have a subwoofer yet.

Cool 😎

Congrats on the update. Agree - Arendal 1723 S is too good. I just want to ask you one thing. Seems like you powered your LCR with BasX A3. Was the power sufficient to provide enough sound output and dynamics? How is the sound quality. Did you ever feel like you must have used a better power amplifier ?

Dan when you compare the colour of the 1723S Satin Black with the 1961 Bookshelf Matt Black do you actually detect any difference in colour?

Is there a big difference between bookshelf vs surround speaker? I want to know the 1723 surround.

I’ve got focal aria towers and centre. Would arendals be an upgrade?

Hi Dan Can I ask what size your screen is? And what projector you used? I am creating something very similar due to space size. Keep up the great work. Best, Rav

Hi there, could you tell us please how these speakers perform night time at low low volumes. I am looking for speakers that can deliver all its glory even at low volumes to make night time movie watching enjoyable. Many thanks.

Not sure I'd bother to change the surrounds and maybe put the money to even better mains. Dunno. Nice upgrade.

Great review - thanks for your efforts! Slight left-field question - what brand is that sofa you are sitting on. I cannot find a decent very comfortable sofa for my set up.

Great video! Do you feel like you have to boost the center channel a couple of dbs or left it at calibrated level of 75db?

I find this video a bit weird as I to have a BW speaker setup and maybe I would see an improvement with the Arendal speakers, but I don't have the issues that he seems to describe. I can''t be sure, but I did a listening test before buying my speakers and learned one important clue and that greatly affected the end sound. Simply put the BW speakers need the right amp to power them and they are power hungry too, oh, they play fine with less, but to really get them to show what they can do, you need a powerful amp. I have a solution that gives me 140 Watts pr channel, for the surround speakers, but I run the mains on a 200 watt block to really give them enough power to show what they are good for. And by doing that, most of the issues he describes vanishes. Sure the Arendal speakers might be the next step up, I wouldn't know, I just don't have the same issue with my BW speakers after getting them enough power. Oh, and one there thing that I learned during my BW speaker shopping even before buying my speakers, an marantz amp isn't a good match with BW speakers at all. The speakers will work just fine, but the sound will be strongly affected. It shouldn't, i know that, but it does. I know this thanks to a speaker listening test that a hifi shop arranged where they allowed you to match up different speakers with different amps. It was really weird hearing a sound different between something like a nad and yamaha and an marantz amp, using the same speakers, but it was clearly there. And one other thing that they showed me was that speakers might actually need a lot more power than you think to fully work. the floor BW speakers and larger likes more than 150 W pr channel. they work fine with less, but it affect the sound. There's also the fact that Marantz amps are good with music, but not the best amp for watching a movie, it's not bad, it's just better at music. And yes you need a good center speaker or the sound will be affected and the typical center speaker that BW wants you to use, with the typical range, isn't a good match at all. you need a bigger center speaker that uses the same elements as your mains just to get a good sound in the first place. Talk to your local seller of BW speaker and ask about a listening test where you can tray a bigger center speaker and a more better matched amp and I think you might just change your ideas about it all. Yet, I will admit that Arendal speakers might actually be very good, even better than I think.

I pretty much have the same ‘old’ 600 series like yours. Slightly better 683 S2. Just ordered the 1723 S towers, centre and Rears S. Hope it will sound a bit better.

Interesting that you used the surrounds as the side Channels and bookshelf’s in for rear. Can you give me some insight as to the logic behind this? Would think it would be opposite. Thanks

HI GREAT REVIEW THANKS, WHAT IS THE SIZE OF YOUR ROOM THANKS JOHN

The center channel is the MOST important speaker actually. I'm just impressed that you placed the Center speaker vertically like the LR speakers which is the ideal setup. Normally the center speaker is placed horizontally. Did you try to put it horizontally and if so how did it sound? Why'd you get the monitors and not the towers? I'm currently using the Dali Oberon 7 which I got just December of last year. I'm eyeing the Arendals but having second thoughts coz my Dali's are less than a year old.

How do these compared to svs ultras?

You can use them for hifi but their most suited for audio.

Do you know what your high freq. limit is for your ears?

I have B&W HTM61 S1, it is complete 3 way LCR system

How are those speakers doing

What’s the cost for all these Arendal speakers ? 😁🇨🇦

Very nice bro

How much price

Try movie Godzilla vs kong with those new speakers

You should remove the kiddie toys from the theater. Really good looking setup otherwise. JMO

Well, I just ordered the 1723s surrounds to go with the 1723s fronts. I'll use the 1961s for rear surrounds. Also, picked up the 1961s atmos 2 sets. Waiting for the 1961s sub to come.