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Athena WS-15 Wall-Mountable 3-Way Front/Center Speaker, Pair (Black) | 
| Brand: Athena
Category: CE
List Price: $175.00
Buy New: $109.99
You Save: $65.01 (37%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 26833
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.5 x 6.2
MPN: WS-15B
Model: WS-15B
UPC: 629303154595
EAN: 0629303154595
ASIN: B000JE6TAW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Sealed system | | • | 100 watt power handling | | • | 8 ohm compatible impedance | | • | 2.7 kHz crossover point | | • | 86 dB room efficiency |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The compact WS-15 is a sleek 2-way design for any channel of your home theater system. The WS-15 can also seamlessly blend with the WS-100s and 60s in a multi-channel system to create a breathtakingly realistic soundstage. Lightweight, extremely efficient and attractive in appearance, the WS-15 also features a built in wall mounting solution. The WS-15 sounds awesome when mated with the matching AS-P4000 or AS-P6000 subwoofer.
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| Customer Reviews:
 good product July 9, 2008
A. Owen (USA)
I am impressed with this product and the price was acceptable. However, the packaging was wet when it arrived. Why? I don't know, probably due to the carrier, but the speakers seem fine as they were plastic wrap. Would buy from again.
 WS-15 ATHENA SPEAKERS May 14, 2008
KEN TELLS ALL (NYC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well made great sounding small speaker. If you need affordable small bookshelf front speakers or surround speakers, these speakers are for you. Athena also makes WS-100 & WS-60 speakers. As a home theater system they are very good. The WS-100 is a slim floor standing speaker and the WS-60 can be used as a table mounted front speaker or center speaker. The WS-15 can be used as the surround speakers and a center speaker depending on your available space. Get a good 10" subwoofer to support the low end and you will have a great system. I have been into hi-fi audio for the last 35 years. Take it from me, these speakers are all you need to hear great music at a reasonable price. You can get a pair of the WS-15 for $80. The WS-60 are $99 a piece. The WS-100 are $299 a pair at AUDIO ADVISOR.
I bought 2 WS-60 speakers & the set of WS-15 speakers. I use the WS-60 panel speakers as fronts for my Sony XBR4 52" LCD television. One WS-15 is serving as the center. The other WS-15 will be used with my living room system. I have no need for surround speakers. I have a 10" Paradigm Ultra cube subwoofer for the low end sound. The subwoofer was not bought through Amazon. Paradigm does not sell over the internet. You must find a retail audio store to buy them at. It is powerful and small and has top ratings. It was the biggest cost at $799. If space and high power is not a concern you can find very good subwoofers from Klipsch. Athena sells the 10" 4100 subwoofer for $149. I am not able to comment on how good it is. I have not listened to them and cannot tell you how its 100 watt AMP holds up over time. I bought the Athena speakers through the Amazon website for security purposes. Saved on shipping and taxes and they were delivered within 5 business days.
Big sound from a small speaker March 28, 2008
JP (East Longmeadow, MA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Athena WS-15 speaker pair was purchased for use as rear surround speakers in my home theater system primarily because they are small, come ready for wall mounting with three angled slots on the attached mount, and are rated for 100 Watts RMS to match up with the rest of my sound system.
I am just about 20 hours along breaking in these speakers, but my initial impressions are very good. My testing of these speakers has consisted of wiring them into the speaker B outputs of my receiver and switching the fronts from my Wharfedale Diamond 7 series bookshelf speakers to this Athena WS-15 speaker pair while previewing a variety of audio tracks. The Wharfedales have a more balanced and fuller tone quality to them whereas the Athenas sound very good but the tweeters make the highs a bit more pronounced. At a quarter the size of the Wharfedales, these Athenas would even make very acceptable fronts if space constraints necessitated a compact speaker enclosure like the WS-15.
The build quality of these Athena speakers is also impressive with a glossy black metal finish, very solid (heavy for the size), and well constructed speaker. Overall, I enjoyed the sound from this speaker pair and they are ideally sized for rear surround use.
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