Chane 3.2 Home Theater System Review Discussion Thread

I heard Open Range at Craig Chase' GTG almost a year ago, and your comment about "the chunks of wood " was spot on! The dynamic range, and attack of the Theater 10 was memorable, and I'm still considering an upgrade from my PRO/SHO-10 LCR to these. They have an even better low end response with equivalent detail and great vocal presence with no harshness of my system.

I'm not only impressed by the clarity and imaging of these speakers, but love the fact that their high efficiency does wonders without having to buy a separate monster amplifier. Those that have tested some of these rising popularity efficient systems notice the benefits immediately.

Thanks for the well written review, and confirmation of what I was hearing. At $300, they are a surprising deal.

Klipsch was one of the first to introduce a full horn loaded speaker, heard one when I was a young teen being powered by a 5 watt amp that was more than sufficient to fill the room from the single Klipshorn. That was amazing later in life to think about. Now there are many offerings and they are quickly gaining popularity. JTR, Danley, and recently Power Sound Audio and Reaction Audio have joined the numbers for low distortion, and balanced response speaker systems that are in the high efficiency range.

When you convert your thinking from watts to dB, and look at speaker efficiency, you find out how much more an efficient speaker can provide you in dynamic overhead than a high powered amp can! Peaks in music become lower in distortion and much easier and enjoyable to listen to when you approach reference level listening. IF the system design is done like this one.