Home Theater Speakers: Reviews

Amazon.com: More than 130 owner-reviewers contribute to the Yamaha NS-SP1800's overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, praising its value, construction quality and sound quality.

JR.com: More than 30 user reviews give the Yamaha NS-SP1800 an overall thumbs-up.

BHPhotoVideo.com: Reviewers aren't as plentiful here as at Amazon.com or JR.com, but there's still a decent number who give the Yamaha NS-SP1800 a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars.

CNET: CNET's Matthew Moskovciak takes a look at the Energy Take Classic 5.1 and names it the best home-theater speaker system around, beating out speakers that cost hundreds of dollars more.

Amazon.com: More than 130 users have weighed in on the Energy Take Classic 5.1 over the years, and all are pleased.

Audioholics.com: In this balanced review, J. Walker Clarke Jr.

Sound & Vision Magazine: In this relatively technical report, Ken C. Pohlmann finds some flaws with the Energy Take Classic but is still impressed.

Home Theater Magazine: This richly detailed review of the Energy Take Classic includes both listening impressions and formal bench testing.

Home Theater Magazine: Home Theater magazine calls the Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 an admirable performer "for its size and cost." It can't develop the wallop of beefier and more expensive setups, but the ProCinema 600 projects an accurate sound field and is an especially good fit for smaller listening spaces.

CNET: CNET reviewer Steve Guttenberg is impressed with the Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 home theater speaker system.

ConsumerReports.org: The Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 is included in ConsumerReports.org's current ratings of home theater speaker systems.

Big Picture Big Sound.com: The Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 system gets a strong 3.5 stars out of 4 here.

Amazon.com: There are only a handful of user reviews of the Definitive Technology ProCinema 600 at Amazon.com, but they're overwhelmingly positive.

Sound & Vision Magazine: Reviewer Brent Butterworth delivers an in-depth, three-page critique chock-full of hands-on impressions and hard numbers from benchmark tests.

Home Theater Magazine: Mark Fleischmann says that while bulkier home theater speaker systems will generally deliver more bang for the buck, the Cambridge Audio Minx S215 is a very tiny system that doesn't sound the part.

About.com: Robert Silva tosses tons of Cambridge Audio Minx S215 technical specs at readers as part of a review based on extensive hands-on testing.

CNET (Australia): Nic Tatham's review of the Cambridge Audio Minx S215 covers all the necessary bases, albeit briefly.

What Hi-Fi?: The editors of Britain's What Hi-Fi? don't dedicate a lot of space to reviewing the Cambridge Audio Minx S215, but they get their main points across in this limited review.

CNET: Steve Guttenberg finds few flaws in his review of the Definitive Technology ProCinema 800, saying it "redefined our expectations of what a small surround speaker system can do." The writeup includes a few comparisons to less expensive systems, which limits their usefulness.

The Perfect Vision: Chris Martens is clearly impressed with the Definitive Technology ProCinema 800, saying that if you heard the system blindfolded, you'd think it cost $1,000 more than it does.

Sound & Vision Magazine: This report at Sound + Vision magazine is comprehensive, although perhaps too technical for all but dedicated audiophiles.

OneCall.com: There are only a handful of reviews of the Definitive Technology ProCinema 800 here, but all owners are mostly pleased thus far.