Dayton Audio Classic B65 Bookshelf Speaker Pair (Black)

I bought these alongside the Dayton AMT mini 8 prior to listening to these speakers as they were built. I modified the original tweeter hole to accept the AMT mini 8 and the clarity in the mids and highs are superb and do sound amazing for the price. Mind you these enclosures aren't winning any appearance awards but atleast with my tweeter modification goes, these speakers are a no trainer to buy and modify. I have these for my front and rear channels for my theater with absolutely zero complaints on clarity lows to highs. Obviously they're not hard hitting 6.5s but what the 6.5s do produce, it's clean. Would recommend for a 2.1 system or higher. I did make a mess of the glue application but it is only visual and is hidden by the cover.

Speakers look and sound great. High quality at a reasonable price. Recommended by audiophiles on YouTube.

These speakers sound very good and to me can compete with speakers costing three times as much. if you need a pair of bookshelf speaker get these.

Generally you get what you pay for in terms of sound and finish, but these punch above their weight in both. All budget speaker design is a series of demanding tradeoffs, and Dayton Audio made phenomenal choices with these. Build quality is a notch above of what they needed to be. These could not be a better fit for a starter system, in an office, or to do something better than one of those all-in-one record players (please never, ever, ever use them). Clarity is solid, bass response is respectable for bookshelves this size and being sealed. The fact it's sealed means you have more placement options and theoretically could even use them on an actual bookshelf. I would say, "Especially if you use room correction," but if you're using room correction, you're probably also spending more on speakers. Unless you're a weirdo like me and have fun using budget gear with way-overdone electronics. Five stars for the price, four stars to knock folks who think these are high-end killers down a peg.

The good: Easily the best sounding bookshelf speakers I've heard in a long time that were not hugely expensive. I tested a set out running a Fosi Audio BT30D and found them to be much more lively than I had expected. Great sound for a budget friendly 2.1 channel home stereo system that provided room filling mids and highs as well as a decent amount of bass kick from the 6.5 woofer. Vocals and instruments were represented very well in my opinion. The bad: I purchased a set with every intention of placing them on their respective bookshelves to avoid the cost of buying or building speaker stands for them. Unfortunately, without the open air to breathe, the whole range of sound suffered, but especially those previously room filling mids and about 90% of bass response. So, if you have the space and the budget to make the proper accommodations for a set of these bookshelf speakers, they are fantastic and I would not hesitate to rely on them for the bulk of my music listening outside of the car. But without a more open environment to place the speakers where they seem to really shine, they are a pass.