Pioneer - 4" Bookshelf Speakers (Pair) - Black

I purchased the speakers for listening to my stereo. They match my bookcase , and the perfect size.

GENERAL I have a pair of these in a 360 sq ft theater room. I have these set up paired with the matching center and two floorstanding speakers (will be adding two more BS to get 7.1). Having spent a lot of money on a projector and screen money was very tight. These speakers came out on sale at frys which Amazon price matched and I decided to give BB a call to see if they would price match as well. They did. Got them same day with store pick up and I get points. SOUND WOW. I paid around $400 for 1 Pair FS, 2 Pair Bookshelf, 1 Center. I have only 1 Pair of BS set up right now and I was blown away. I have a large room and needed great and BALANCED sound. these easily compete with a set worth twice its value. If you're not a hardcore audiophile and are looking to start somewhere this is it. Look no further. These BS and powerful and deliver very accurate sound. Watching action movies make you feel apart of the movie. "CON" There size is large but if you want a good speaker you have to accept that. the annoying part about the size is that there is no mounting option. the speakers have no keyhole mount or pre-drilled holes. you have to put them on a shelf or buy and mount that uses tension to hold speaker in place. It may seem obvious that Bookshelf speakers to be placed in a bookshelf unit but that is NOT true. you need to leave at least 3-4" space behind the speaker to allow for the port to be unobstructed. Also, you dont want walls of a bookshelf impeding natural flow of sound. Best options are to install a shelf or buy tension speaker mounts that dont require drilling into the speaker. FYI my setup is paired with Klipsch Reference 12 sub and Denon AVR.

Believe the hype. These are simply awesome speakers for the price. Their musicality equals or excels many speakers in the $350 and up price range. In a blind test with two very good and highly rated bookshelf speakers, the Ascend Acoustics CBM-170 and the Axiom Audio M30v2, these held their own, even sounding better in certain areas. They have a beautiful, highly listenable neutral sound a bit on the warm side. They have to be the best or among the best bookshelf speakers sold in-store at Best Buy - and for the price, possibly some of the best speakers anywhere. The soundstage is a bit smaller than you'll find on some (not all higher priced Hifi bookshelf speakers - it was just a bit smaller than the Axioms - but they still have a perfectly good soundstage. Where they really shine is in the mid-range: eveyrthing from violin and piano through rock and folk vocals. The response is fast, the coloration basically neutral, with almost no reverb out of the box, so that the speakers essentially disappear. New sounds emerge on well recorded material, especially background vocalists, who acheived a clarity I'd never heard before on my Ascends or Axioms, both speakers I really love. These Pioneers avoid the pitfalls of so many $200 and under speakers: excessive highs and boomy bass. Instead, the Pioneers round off a bit on the very high end, casting a warm element to the tuning while avoiding the bright sibilance that plagues bargain, boom-box style audio. Despite the size of the enclosure and four-inch woofer, these deliver perfectly good, musical bass. The Axioms and Ascends both give a fuller spectrum with more bass, but they also cost around $400. The Pioneers don't seem to reach the claimed low end of 55 Hz, but they deliver enjoyable musical bass in a medium-sized room, and sound fantastic and full in a near-field listening situation. If I hadn't been listening to them side by side with the other speakers, I would have found the bass surprising, enjoyable, and more than enough. Also, there are plenty of mid-priced or low-priced speakers that may push it a bit lower on the bass end, but that will mess up in more egregious ways, with strident highs, big gaps in the mid-range, and nothing comprable to the overall smooth, neutral warmth of the Pioneers. These are probably best suited for music in a living room or smaller setting, as fronts or surround speakers in a Home Theater set up (fronts if you have a sub), or for near-field monitor listening. Paired with a digital t-amp, these would create the ultimate pc audio speaker, no sub needed. They are a great introduction to audiophile, hifi speakers - but they're more than that. These are so good, they will cause many listeners to rethink their $300-500 bookshelf speaker dreams.

I was always aware of the reviews that Andrew Jones designed loudspeakers get. But the problem is, all those speakers are in the >$5000 league, which I cannot afford. Recently I had to build a small system for the family that could be moved from one location to another, depending on the occasion and kids moved. The speakers were the perfect fit for these needs, especially when it came to sound quality. Before this we tried a Samsung dock and it did not live up to our standards, since my family is used to listening to good sound on my main system. We got these speakers, a small digital amp, a iPod dock, a pair of interconnects and a pair of loudspeaker cables and we were all set. The sound is amazing for the size of driver per side. Just give these speakers about 35-50 hours of break-in time. Absolutely thrilled with the overall sound. Here is a link to our system: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vscnd&1367787674

I read the reviews on these speakers, and I watched some YouTube videos of them being demonstrated, compared, and sound-tested, including a video where the speaker's engineer, Andrew Jones, described the process and the components used to produce this amazing outcome. These speakers are absolutely amazing irrespective of price-point, and that is not just talk. I have only had them for about 3 hours which means that they aren't even "burned in" but I am telling you that that fact just makes me sweat with anticipation about how much better the sound will become over the next few days. I have had quite a few systems over the last 35 years and many different speaker combinations. Today I have a Pioneer Tuner Control Amp and the separate Power Amp with the equalizer and bass boost. I tried Polk T15's along with my Pioneer floor speakers, rear channel surround sound speakers and the center channel speaker, and they sounded very good at first. But after a few days I noticed that something was missing with them or either just not quite right no matter how I tried to tune them with the equalizer. That's when I started looking at the reviews for the Pioneers. Well, this morning I returned the T15's and bought the BS22's and I am just blown away with what I got for my money. First of all, Best Buy price-matched Amazon at $99. Then they gave me another $9.00 off that price which means I walked out of there with these incredible babies for $90.00. They are balanced, harmonic, and I can hear every instrument and every nuance in the music I've listened to so far. The bass is just right, the midranges just seem to pick you up and allow you to float, and the highs keep you interested but they don't tire you out. The Pioneer SP-BS22 speakers do exactly what I want them to do no matter the music I have listened to. There may be some better speakers out there but for the regular price of $129.00 or the sale price that I got them for, it is going to be hard to justify paying more for any speaker because these sound so so sweet! Pioneer has a winner in the bookshelf speaker category and the SP-BS22's should be able to defend their title for a long time to come!

The Andrew Jones designed Pioneer speakers have been discussed all over the internet recently and for good reason. I bought them because of all the buzz so I could hear them myself and I wasn't disappointed. The BS22LRs are far better than they should be at their price point and offer an amazing value for the quality of sound. The highs are just a bit soft (in a good way), but they are extremely clear and the midrange is also very clean and natural sounding. For their size, they produce a very wide stage and perform very well even when pushed hard (I ran them in 3 systems ranging from 30W to 200W). I've listened to a lot of speakers and own a few that are far more expensive than these, and these still please me every time I listen to them. The appearance (with grills on) is a bit plain, almost unattractive to me, but the sound quality they offer easily offsets that for me. They won't replace high end bookshelf speakers well above this price range, but they are absolutely worth a listen.

I have nothing but great things to say about these speakers. I heard about these speakers on several audio web sites and all of the good things they say about these speakers are true. These speakers are very clear and musical. They are also extremely neutral. These speakers let you hear the music as it was intended to be heard. Yes, these are small speakers and have only 4" woofers, so they will not have the base extension of large speakers. But they go way deeper than you would think and they sound good doing so. This pair was purchased for my son who is learning how to produce music in college (Music Tech degree). He says they are much better than most of the studios at school, except for some of the best setups that cost many $1000's. These speakers are Highly recommended and I'll probably buy another set for myself soon!

Being involved with audio equipment as my hobby for more than 40 years, I have always felt that the music is first and foremost. No one should have to spend incredible amounts of money to enjoy quality music in their home. These speakers are among the finest reproducers of MUSIC for their size I have ever heard or owned. Read the hi-end magazines, and the superlatives they apply to bookshelf speakers of this dimension usually cost anywhere from $350 to $1000 dollars. These Pioneers deserve those superlatives for a fraction of the cost. Can you BLAST them at rock concert levels? No. No small speaker can do that. But they will fill a good size room as long as they have a quality amplifier driving them. Just OUTSTANDING.