This is soo interesting! I was expecting a glowing review of these being that they should be the bigger, badder sounding sibling of the SSC5 bookshelves. As always, I really enjoy the way you describe things and look forward to more great videos! Still loving the heck out of my SSC5 bookshelves. Every time I turn them on they put a big smile on my face! Happy Holidays!

I'm surprised that you did not have a better experience! I have both the CS3s and the CS5s. I use them with the CS Subwoofer, SC center channel , and the CS Atmos upshooters. I drive then with the STR DN1080 and get a really nice soundstage!

Thanks for the review. I purchased the CS5 bookshelf speakers and I couldn't be happier. Great sound, I'm actually blown away by the sound coming out of these things with the Sony 2 channel receiver and an audio-technics turntable. Even my wife has shed a few tears over the amazing sound - hearing some of our favorite vinyl again is extremely nostalgic. Terrific speakers, way better than a pair of polk audio bookshelf speakers I had years ago.

The extra volume of midrange and bass frequencies caused by the additional driver makes the tweeters sound quieter at the same volume level. they would need to adjust the crossover to increase the output of the tweeter to balance with the extra output from the mid/bass drivers... I'm guessing they are just using the same crossover in both.

It's like The Office of speaker reviews.

Dude how crazy is it that you were under 1k subs just like 2 months ago? Thanks for your honest no frills take, that's what I love about your channel.

Thank you for your honesty!!! I had high hopes for these as well. The more I learn, the closer I get to adding a sub to my bookshelves...

SSCS5 are incredible..had them for 90$..best buy ever, 300$ worth of sound.

I have 4 of the scss5 sony towers raised on 12 inch high pedestals that I build. And I enjoy the sound they give whether it's movies, rock, blues or classical music.

"Which is really what the T15s are meant for... to be a stand for other speakers." 😂

I bought a set of scss3 two weeks ago because of you. :) on sale at Best Buy for $100 each. Was going to get another set and price went back up next day. :/ still a bargain at 150 but hoping they go in sale again before Christmas. These are truly great sounding speakers. Much better than the klipsch reference line.

I have the SS-CS5 bookshelf speakers in my music room setup (using the STR-DH190 receiver) and love it. I just swapped one of the speakers out with the SS-CS3, and my God man, you're 100% right. The towers are a touch louder, but soooo inefficient. SS-CS5 all DAY. Love your channel dude.

Hi Randy, you're 100 percent accurate on your assessment of the Sony cs3. I've heard the same comments from other reviewers. I was thinking maybe the crossover is different on these speakers? The crossover plays a major role in the sound of a speaker. Well that's my 2 cents on this point, thanks Randy love your channel...

I was considering these and their smaller brothers with black friday pricing. I ended up getting the bookshelves. And I am more than happy with them for $73. Glad I made the right decision.

Thank you. I was searching KZfaq for something that I don’t even know what the name is and I found you. Just what I was looking for. Audio equipment videos for the non 1%. I am sitting here watching all your videos and learning. Keep em coming.

Suggestion for a cheap tower speaker to review: Dayton Audio MK442T They are $240 shipped (last I saw) and there are restocks available for like $110/pr. They have gold plated binding posts, and a "real" (2nd order?) crossover. A pair of 4" paper cone woofers, and a 3/4" soft dome tweeter. Oh, they are a transmission line design. With two woofers, they will have some vertical comb filtering - at the height right between the 2 woofers, you will hear even dispersion. But above and below this height you will have limited midrange. If done in an MTM (midrange-tweeter-midrange) then it could help the sound by minimizing the floor bounce cancellation. Bigger speakers are harder to do right. Maybe, the impedance drops because they wired the woofers in parallel? This will tap out the amp, and you'll get anemic bass.

Subbed! I have the Core towers and the bookshelves and my experience with the towers has been really good. I love them. Granted, I do have them elevated about a foot(I like my tweeters high). Mine sound like the bookshelves but "bigger". More bass, a bit more mids and highs are crisp. I like them a little better than the bookshelves. I do have an 8" sub just to add some low low end but they do fine without it on. I listen at a low to medium volume typically so maybe if you crank them they get sloppy? I've had nothing but excellence so far though. I've had them about a year or so. Sorry your experience was so poor with them!

It's interesting how fast your channel is blowing up. Part of it has to do with that you are a no BS reviewer who focuses a little more on the budget side of audio but I wonder what about your channel appeals to the KZfaq algorithm.

nice, just ordered 4 of the bookshelf speakers and the sony center speaker to update my 5.1 system. My subwoofer I didn't see a point updating, it going strong and no complaints.

They must have changed the crossover for the second woofer. This will be it !

I think what makes a super tweeter special is the smaller size. That improves the dispersion and you get more room interaction. Lots of people enjoy that.

You saved me from purchasing the wrong speaker with this video. Thank you so much for recommending the SS-CS5, just bought them because of your confirmation.

The final thoughts analogy 😂

Thanks for sharing. Was considering buying some this morning. They are on sale at Best Buy for $100 each. The bookshelves are half off at $75 bucks for a pair! I don't have much physical space to work with in my living room...so I think I'm going with some bookshelves and a subwoofer. The Sony Subwoofer is also half off at Best Buy! Total cost before tax is going to be $175. Thanks again, from one cheap guy to another!

I think the bookshelf’s sound better because it is a 2 way (sort of) vs a 3 way. Think of how everyone loves the kef coaxial speaker design. One driver with the tweeter in the center allows for no phase issue because there’s only one place the sound is coming from. Also some fancy 3 way speakers (like klipsch heresy or focal aria) are tilted back so that the sound from the driver reaches you ear the same time as the tweeter. The crossover causes that delay.

So I think some of the sound stage and mid-range issue might come down to if you're setting a more aggressive crossover on the low end. I got quite a bit more sound stage after I moved the crossover from 80hz to 50hz. I have the bookshelves as my rears in my setup. That being said I would say for value the Bookshelves are the better speaker overall. I wouldn't return the towers, but if I had to do it over again I'd buy another set of the bookshelves. I do have to say if I didn't have these paired with a subwoofer I wouldn't be as happy. I think that they work well in a home theater setup with a good toe-in and some height adjustment if you have the full set including the subwoofer, but I think you're spot on about the bookshelves being a better overall set of speakers.

Thanks for the video. I was thinking about buying the whole CS system after seeing all the reviews for the CS5's

Thank you, this was very helpful!

Great job for telling as it is!

Ive seen several people saying the bookshelfs are better but i have both and Id say the towers are clearly better, I think their great. If you can, do front towers and use the bookshelves as rears.

That's awesome that you used to own those kenwood's. Just picked up a whole stereo system with those exact speakers from my grandpa! The stereo sounds fantastic but the speakers were blown sadly.

Bought the bookies used for only $80. Sound good for rears in a HT set up. Ran into the towers later and was excited to buy them on the spot ( used) for only $40 total. Hooked em up and was immediately unhappy. Wish I had taken the time to find this old review and slept on purchasing but was a rare moment of FOMO. Was convinced someone else would scoop them up if I waited. Lessons learned: go outside of a store to get better internet on your phone to read reviews, and don't assume anything about speakers in the same " series".

I was considering building my first 5.1 setup with these for the front and the bookshelves as surrounds, plus the SSCS8 center and Polk PSW10. Would you recommend just doing the bookshelves for the front channel instead? Is there a better 5.1 setup you'd recommend in the same budget considering how cheap the Sony Core series is when on sale? Thanks for your review, very informative!

I just bought the bookshelf version for $60 brand new in the box off of Facebook market place. Loving them so far

Another great, hilarious, to the point review! Love it....keep em coming! I know nothing about audio, but I'm a learning...thanks to you. I always thought tower speakers were supposed to be better than stand speakers, but you have proven that not to be the case. Are there any value tower speakers you can recommend? $600 was your limit for stand speakers and you start to get really critical. What is your critical price limit for towers? Thanks.

Poor Polk T-15s can't get no love and have been relegated to speaker display stands. ;-) Thank you for the honest review and really, tower setup instructions. From your listening notes it sounds like the larger budget cabinet construction and cross over design is not allowing the towers to shine like the book shelves. Your description of how Shoot to Thrill sounded, and should sound, was excellent. More of this please in future videos. Waiting for the book shelves to go back on sale for less than $100. Lastly, you missed a Goonies joke with the locked away stepbrother comment. BABYRUTH!

On the sony website you got the 5.0 SS-CS310CR set-up and the use the bookshelf ones together with a mid one in front and put the towers at the back. While normally you see the big ones in front and the small ones at the back.

Thanks for the review / warning!!

Just got the bookshelves and sub combo. Amazing sound! was gunna get the tower speakers and the center speaker for a 5.1 setup but maybe I’ll just stick to the bookshelves.

The only thing I can think about is that the internal crossover is different cap and coils values between the towers and the bookshelves. Thanks for the video, I'll purchase the bookshelves

Glad I found your channel. The 3's didn't do much for me in the middle of Best Buy, but I thought it was the setting. The SSCS5's make me sad because I've lost all desire to buy anything other than more 5's.

Would you recommend going with four bookshelves and a sub instead of getting the towers if I am setting up an entry level home theater? Would it make sense to use the bookshelves as right and lefts in a home theater? Should I mix brands? I really want to get the bookshelves and use them in an atmos setup, but I was told that mixing brands was not a good idea. I was also wondering about the core center channel. I have heard that it was not as good as the bookshelves either, but I really don't want to use another bookshelf as the center. Any thoughts? Also, I recently found your channel and was very impressed. I subbed right away. I really like the way you do your reviews.

I enjoyed your video...thanks! I generally agree with you, esp. concerning these towers. (I like the Sony Core bookshelf loudspeaker, too.) For what it's worth, the Pioneer BS-22 bookshelf loudspeaker used to go on sale for ~$50-$75/pr. With my music and listening room and gear (and ears), the BS-22 is/was a better choice for two-channel audio. I would question paying the current MSRP for the fading BS-22, though. Here is a neat idea for your channel: Consider auditioning ALL your loudspeakers behind a screen-lights off, no looking. You will need helpers.

Thank you helped me out a lot

I think, (I haven't heard or measured them, so this is just a guess, but), most likely what's happenning with the towers vs. the bookshelf ones, is that that extra (bottom) woofer, being (most likely) crossed over pretty high or not at all, (maybe even being driven "full range"?), it is so far away (relatively) from the top midwoofer and tweeter(s) that you are hearing the effects of phase cancellation at certain frequencies, making the towers seem less "coherent"... That plus the extra added baffle step diffractions from the larger front baffle of the towers, those too are probably what is making the towers seem "muddy" and/or "veiled" in comparison to the bookshelfs. I honestly don't think that the towers just simply having the front port vs. the rear port (of the bookshelfs) is negatively affecting the sound as much as just the phase cancellation anomalies between the drivers and the added baffle step diffractions probably are, because front ports can be just as effective as rear ports if they are tuned reasonably well. (Maybe the front port does have *something* to do with the relatively weak bass in THIS specific speaker's design, because maybe it wasn't quite implemented properly with these towers, but without being able to measure them or even hear them for myself, I'm just guessing here, based on my experiences with other speakers of a very similar design over the years.) I kinda wonder if Danny Richie from the GR Research channel could do anything with those towers to make them actually sound any *better* than the bookshelfs... OR that it would even be worth even trying to improve them at all, given their relatively cheap parts and build quality... My guess would be that the towers are probably NOT even worth messing with, just get the bookshelfs instead in the first place, (along with the matching sub if desired), and just be happier to begin with!

It's funny you mention we're only at 800 subscribers. Watching it tonight you're at almost 240 000 subs. Good for you! enjoyed this earlier video. Thanks 🇨🇦

Final episode of the Mandalorian review. Bang up

I appreciate your review. This system has been around for a while now. Currently at the time of writing this, Best Buy has the CS3s on sale for $150 each and the CS5 priced around $130 for the pair i think, i dont fully recall, but upon listening to the demo at the store they sounded very lack luster. Ive read reviews where people love these towers and im no audiophile and cant describe all of the subtle nuances as one would, but in the store, the sony cs setup sounded muddy and dull. But then i came across a demo on YT. I know YT compresses audio and all of that but I was impressed by what i heard. Maybe it has something to do with that person's equipment? Tharbamar made a couple of great vids showcasing the towers. So maybe its the audio equipment. It may also be some things were changed with the components used in initial construction to cheaper more inferior components. That in turn may have affected the sound quality from the time Tharbamar made his review til the time you created this video up until what they have in the store on display now.

I have these paired with the center book shelves and the sub woofer paired to the Sony strdn 1080 I have 0 complaints. Could be because I used the calibration mic with the 1080. But I find sound to be amazing

It's nice to see you again, Joel of TLOU.

It's a shame about these. If they just had the same sound signature as the bookshelves with some added sensitivity and bass extension they would be awesome. I have a feeling the cheap cabinet construction is causing some problems with the larger cabinets. There may also be some phasing issues with the added woofer cancelling out certain frequencies. I've always liked speakers of this design with a 2.5 way, or in this case a 3.5 way crossover. Then you can place the second woofer in its own separate enclosure and cross it over real low.

I have the cs5s and I love them. I haven't heard the cs3s in person but maybe the problem is adding by adding the extra driver it effects the time arrival between drivers and or weakening the single from the crossover. Did they used the same crossovers as the bookshelves?

Hi Randy, Thanks for the review. I am planning to buy sony home theater combo but stopped myself after watching this review. Can I replace floor standing with the sony bookshelf SSCS5?. That means 4 bookshelf and one center channel and one sub woofer. Please suggest.

Thanks for giving them a review and your honest opinion. After your review I had to go get my fluance Rt85 for my main listening space to my living room where my home theater is and my now 4 Sony sc3 are and two sc5 to make up my 7.1.4 home theater setup. I removed my home receiver from the equation and plugged the player into my fosi phono amp to my fosi amp to just two sc3. In this setup as a stand alone 2ch setup I sadly agree my favorite records lost everything I came to enjoy again listen on my sc5. I then tried running my fluance to my receivers phono preamp and did the same test on pure sound out from the receiver, about the same, maybe the bass was a little heavier.. Then I listened with my audyssey setup with the receiver running my person room calibration through the app and it all became clear!! And why they seemed so much better replacing the sc5 in this setup “Home Theater” not 2ch music without heavy tone mapping These have been great at adding surrounding bass and effects to our movie watching as far as height I agree the on the shorter side but for our movie watching with reclining seats I never thought about making them higher. But as far as my fluance and my main music listening with be going back to its main room with a pair of sc5s! I’m sorry you were as disappointed as I for this review as a I am. Thanks for your time and keep the cheap audio reviews coming!!!

Great videos man, but I hate when people say, 'Ok?' 'Got it?' 'Clear?' 'Are we good?' 'Clear as mud?' 😂🤬🤬

Thanks for the review and other videos Cheapaudiman! For other people looking at this video: I got the bookshelf version of those speakers. Let me tell you, they have the best sound quality I ever heard. Good treble, good midrange, and good mid-bass (Range of mid-bass: From 75hz to 130hz) and good low bass. The bass is enough for stereo. However if you want more LOWER and more powerful bass. Then just add a powered subwoofer with built in low pass filter. The best audio balance 30hz to 20kz I ever heard came from these speakers + subwoofer. If you guys want a very high sound quality system for the money, use a these bookshelf version speakers + Klipsch 10 inch powered subwoofer with a good amp. I guarantee, that the sound quality is way way better than JBL Partybox speakers and also better than large bookshelf speakers with 6.5 to 8 inch woofers in them. :)

Hi Cheapaudioman, I can only think of 3 possible culprits. I'm assuming they have identical drivers. 1. Towers probably need more break in time; 2. Crossover used is better on bookshelves: 3. Internal volume and dampening is better on bookshelves. Just my opinion.

Great review

Good review 👍.

I have the towers. They are good, I do have them pointed directly at me when I sit in my chair. I’m planning on getting the Sony bookshelf speakers and trying those out.

Bullet dodged! Glad I’ve got the bookshelf/sub combo. Love my system

Man, did you ever struggle with this one. I can see why, though. I heard a pair and wasn't impressed. My CS5s are awesome, though, so thanks for that. Keep up the good work!

I have a pair of cs5s in my theater setup, and found a pair of cs3s locally on FB marketplace for $75 for the pair, for a price that low I had to see for myself the difference. I got them just before work tonight so I haven't had very long to listen to them yet, but from the short time I got with them I got the impression of a "bigger" sound from them than the cs5, which makes sense, bigger tower. And I do feel that they go louder than the cs5s just a tiny bit, and more safely, for example with my older Onkyo HT RC370 I sometimes enjoy me some loud metal, with the cs5s hooked, after a couple hours of running them at 78/100 volume the speakers start to sound like they're struggling, I can hear some background scratchiness that has me worried so I back off the volume to about 69/100 where they seem happier The cs3s after a couple hours were louder at 74/100, and were perfectly comfortable cranking out 80/100 for a similar 2 hour runtime without any scratchiness that lead me to believe any damage might occur. I hope it just comes down to them being picky about amplifier, or you possibly had a bad pair, but if not, I can just swap back, after all, $75 is actually less than I paid for my cs5s, so I can live with this little experiment Edit: after a couple months with these I can agree that the cs3's do not sound as good as the cs5s. At a higher listening volume (particularly in metal music) I find them to be harsh on my ears, I lowered the midrange frequencies in the equalizer so my eardrums wouldn't feel like they were being stabbed. I'm not sure how to describe it, these cs3s sound decent with stuff like pop music, but metal music (almost all music really) was handled better by the cs5s imo.

Just wondering, could the two woofer be paralleled?

I have a pair of Sony ss-f7000 Sony speakers for like 2009 and they sound really good for 300 at the time. The speakers have to be spaced as far apart and towed in to sound good though. If they are spaced close like on the ends of a tv they are not that good. I’m not and audio expert but they just sound lively and richer when spaced far apart. I always like to use music by sting to test speakers out. His recordings just sound so much better than most bands.

I spoke too soon... I posted a comment just after this video came out, agreeing w/ Randy - bookshelves great, towers disappointing. But I just picked up a Crown XLS 1002 amp - wow, what a great combo with the Sony towers. Speakers with detailed treble are a good match for the XLS 1002, as it is a little rolled off. This combo sounds very even top to bottom, with a nice airy treble and punch bass - great combo!

haha I love the dis on the Polk, I got a pair of those and yes I was only using them as the rear of my 7.1 but I bad one fall and it broke so I replaced them with Polk R150 which seemed very similar and underwhelming so they stay as rears for now. I have Polk M10 as side speakers and have Fluance SXBP2 as my fronts and a Polk M150 center. I need better front left n right speakers so I can move the Fuance to side location, or rear so Iam concidering adding a set of sony sscs 3 or 5 or 2 pairs of sscs5 powered by a 2nd amp, main amp is a yamaha ax a800. OR the Fluance Ai81 powered towers. I love your videos and quirky personality! keep up the good work!

Agree with you about those higher freqs that most of us older folks cant really hear anymore, yet you can and do Sense them...Like when you were talking about the airiness thats there in the female voice...I Do hear that even though my ears roll off around 14 or 15khz so I know what you mean.

Hooked them up with my old hk385i and they sound surprising sweet and smooth for the midrange

When u add speakers power delivery changes so if it's the same crossover it probably doesn't get as much power to the tweeters as it did also if u add bass and the tweeters aren't isolated it changes the sound of the highs

Gotta be the crossover... Gotta cut corners somewhere, I bet they'd be much better with a properly designed crossover, but is it worth it?

So last November, I purchased my first Home Theater set up. BB had a sale, the Sony Core Series speakers were all 50% off. A great value for what they are. (The sub is trash. Replaced it with two Klipsch R-12SWs that were $150 from Costco.) And picked up the STRDN1080. Sweet first AVR. I'd like to say, yes it's my first HT setup, but watching Whiplash, Howl's Moving Castle, and other movies where the music is not just background. the 5.1.2 set up from the Sony lineup I purchase is well worth it to me. Especially in the clarity of the string instruments. Now I watched a few of your videos, love them, I thumbs up when I remember and congrats on the subscriber count, anyways, now I want some Emotivas. But I'm not going to get them until these Sony's kick the bucket or I win the lottery or something.

Now I’m really thinking about getting a couple sets of the sscs5 for my front channels on my HT set up

I agree with your review. I bought the bookshelfs at 73 a pair and thought they sounded great. Saw the towers and figured they would sound better because of the extra woofer and tower. Something is missing. The airiness isn't there and bass isn't louder. I tried putting then further apart but nothing good comes out. You just cleared up my myth about the towers not sounding good. What would you recommend for 500 dollars a pair for towers with a balanced sound. I would appreciate you response.

Some possible explanations: 1) You could have gotten a lemon. You only tried 1 pair. 2) The sides are longer, allowing for different resonant modes in the cabinets. 3) The crossover network may be sub-optimal when adding another woofer. 4) Lobing, polar lobing and frequency cancellations from the woofer pair not accounted for in the crossover network. 5) While they may look the same, they may be using different parts, or even built in different factories, on different equipment. *6) Maybe the new ones aren't broken in, and you're comparing them to your old pair which are. (Maybe not the most likely, but possible). You would really need to test 3 pairs of each to get a good idea if this is indicative to the line, or just outliers. ....still.... I bought the bookshelf version. I can use them as rear or side or upstairs bedroom speakers. This makes them more versatile. Btw, i really am impressed with their midrange pace, and the well-defined leading edge of notes. Good timbre and tone on these. Bass is lacking, and rear ports are not ideal as the signal output switches front-back near the tuning frequency. Front ports, in general, are superior. But then all are inferior to sealed, so it's relative. Passive radiators are a good compromise. Overall, the little bookshelves were a good buy, and sonically impressive. I can recommend the stand-mount version. Curious about the tower performance differences; would require further investigation. Definitely an answerable question, however. Could be as simple as unhooking one of the midbase drivers. Maybe their frequency range is too high for a driver pair coupling. I would start there, once cabinet damping and positioning has been done.

Great Review.

Are the towers 3way or 4way? Is there another crossover at 100Hz for example so the second woofer can concentrate on 100Hz and below? What residual high frequencies are coming out of the front port? Cancelation occurring because of the front port? What happens if you place the bookshelf speakers on top the towers and add another stereo amp driving the additional 2 speakers? Then we have cabinet size, a large enclosure with little bracing but supporting 2 woofers now? Interesting they don't sound the same....

So if you wanted to pair the Sony bookshelves with a pair of floor speakers, what is your preference? I do like the sound of the bookshelves and will be adding a sub, but want to get some floor speakers too! Thx!!Love your videos!

Thanks for the video. I have been considering buying these towers, I have not had decent speakers since I was a teen in the 80's. I'm wanting to put together a good home theater with a tight budget. The only thing I have had since I was a kid has been sound bars. In your opinion would these be good for me going from tv speakers to surround? I'm assuming anything is probably better than the little speaker in my TV but I respect your opinion and would be honored to have it. Thanks.

So what do you recommend instead of these..I just bought some and don't like them either..returning this Friday..I have a denon 750

That swipe about the Polk speakers was quite informative. What the hell happened to Polk? They used to be pretty well-regarded at one point.

I got the Sony and I like the way both of them sound together

I live in a small apartment so I can appreciate a speaker that doesn't blast my movie into my neighbors bedroom. These speakers open up those possibilities, If I go behind the Sony tower speakers to plug in an hdmi cable It is unbelievable, I thought the speakers were off. If you want speakers that don't wake your kids or you neighbor or roommate... These speakers open up a chance for you to have your music on without someone rushing into your man cave and telling you to turn that down. I cannot guarantee that your acoustics in your man cave would allow you to finally play music without being told to turn it down, but these speakers seem to be designed in a way that doesn't blast music into a bed room behind your speakers... I haven't tried out blasting music through the walls in front of the sony towers yet, but the fact that I might be able to play my music without starting a speaker battle is a plus to me. Do you have a large area where you can listen to music as loud as you want for as long as you want or are you picking up a set of towers that are going into room with a shared wall. Face these speaker away from that wall and It should cut down some noise complaints. At the very least I believe that these reason why they towers focus the sound in such a laser focused sweet spot is for those of us that live very close to other people , roomates, spouses, kids... that don't allow us to watch a movie or listen to music whenever. As I stated before it might offer the possibility of not causing a noise complaint. If you want to blast music through the walls behind your speakers These are not for you.

This shows that crossover is one of the most important thing, if not the most important , in a speaker.

Man I think these sound great, maybe better for movies? I set my crossover to 80hz, use the bookshelves for surrounds.

Plug the front ports I bet yea a good one it will clean them up I plugged my bookshelf’s port and night & day difference helps the control a lot I’ve never had the towers but that would be my guess if it works for the bookshelf’s hopefully it will work for the towers 😁😁

Just found out Dan has one to test. On his video he briefly said the sony are not good compared to the bookshelf. I am curious to see what he does to improve the sscs3.

I saw this review when it first came out. I was so excited for it, and so disappointed with the final opinion. I just bought them. On sale. I appreciate them for what they are.

Thanks for the warning. I'll just get more bookshelves, thanks!

I think these towers are designed for a full home theater system to operate with given limitations. Each of the speakers in that theater system responds to it's position in the sound stage with more or less performance compared to other speakers. There is a balance between speaker design characteristics and what the audio sound stage creates in the media being listened to. There are a lot of factors to balance in order to create a near perfect listening experience that satisfies broad public taste.

Congrats on 60k subs .

I have those on rear surround duty. They just don’t hack it for my main fronts.

thanks almost purchased these last night for sisters fronts....She currently is using the Sony bookshevles for fronts some old polks for rears....what would you suggest 2 more Sony books for rears?

well there is a difference between deepness and punch in bass usually to get a more dynamic bass usually you can sacrifice punch in the 60-80Hz and i understand i'm a metal head my self but if you try classical full orchestra or electronic/techno you will see that a dynamic bass can provide a lot of extra information in the bass region, that does not mean thta you'll gonna like it but yeah i also like bookshelfs way more than towers usually you will sacrifice immaging and soundstage for some little more bass or better performance in the lower region

Wished sony would make more models of floorstanding speakers

great review, im looking to get de sony bookshelf speakers, and also the sony subwoofer, what sony sub model is the best one to with the sscs3 3way bookshelfs???

Once I put them on top of my subwoofers and played around with the crossover and bass and treble they sound really good, The tweeters are too bright at ear Hight to me and raising them up changed the sound quite a bit.

Please, Sir, Review the Polk Signature S60 Speaker Towers, Thank you.

Thank you very much for making this video about the speakers I was thinking about buying the towers but after watching your video I'm kind of like deciding if I should buy the bookshelf speakers instead. what would you recommend should I buy 2 pairs or one pair my receiver has the option to hook up 2 pairs, Or should I buy just one pair. The bookshelf speakers are on sale right At Best Buy I believe they are $125 the pair Right now for black Friday. I'm kind of building my home theater I have my center speaker and my surround speakers I just need the front. By the way the towers are on sale right now a Best Buy also for a $150 each. What do you recommend one pair or 2 pairs thank you very much in advance and once again thank you for sharing all your knowledge on all these speakers and order stuff that you review thank you again a happy holidays... happy Thanksgiving !!!

Oh by the way 3 yrs later and you still love the SONY SS CS5's.