Customer Ratings & Reviews

Amazing speakers. They’re a must buy. No need to hesitate.

These speakers sound and look great. They were an amazing bargain.

I got these speakers during the holiday sale and it was worth it. Easy to install.

These speakers are controlled by my phone and arc. They get very loud. My kids have blasted these speakers and they haven’t blown. I have 2 in living room. They will play tv sound or music.

Added these to my home theater speaker system. Great sound and great quality product.

The installation of the speaker is no problem. Running speaker wire, however, will be a pain if you don't have an attic.

Sonance makes always great quality speakers! Bought 2 of these

Fit finish and abilities to swivel! Nuf said. Must buy!

Clean and easy install and great price. Sonance allows for speakers to be grouped and tuned

I love the sound and like the way the speakers look in ceiling

Amazing speakers with a Kevlar cone. Highly recommended esp at the sale price!

We just purchased a new home, and I've been installing a whole-home audio system. Our house already had 3 sets of in-wall speakers installed, and I needed quite a few more sets for our 14 zone audio system. The Sonance MAG6R were on sale at Bestbuy for a ridiculous price, and I purchased 6 pairs and installed them. Build quality is stellar, as noted in the other review, with nice features such as good side protection, wonderful easy to use mounting tabs (especially with a power driver), and easy-mount brackets that hold them in the ceiling while you're installing them. The magnetic grill is fantastic, and very slick and slim when installed. They mount basically flush on the surface, and the wife approved of the look. On first listen, it was just a jaw-dropping WOW, you've got to be kidding experience. The bass was so deep and clear, and the "voice" of these speakers so natural, I was extremely impressed. These speakers sound fantastic, including (and especially) at low-volume for ambient background music throughout our home. We tend to keep the XM Classical channel or XM "The Bridge" on as ambient music, and these speakers are wonderful. We have them installed as both stereo speakers (in various bedrooms and living areas) as well as mono-speakers (in hallways, entryways, and offices). They shine in either application They can handle a decent amount of volume as well, such as for the occasional party; we're driving them with very good (though older) B&K CT610 amplifiers at 60W/channel (with a total of 18 zones of available amplification - it's taken me a month to get this all installed and running). One last important point: these are advertised as "ceiling speakers" and they mean it! They are quite deep, and will NOT fit onto a standard wood-framed wall without some modification. As several speakers I was installing required a wall-mount (not ceiling), I had to do a bit of modification to get these to fit my standard depth walls. This is not a simple DIY project, and requires some tools and skill. I removed the rear cover and circuit board, and ground down the circuit board mounts to place the circuit board below the level of the rear driver magnet. Finally, I traced the position of the magnet inside the mounting hole, and routed about 1/2" of depth off the drywall on the OPPOSITE SIDE of the speaker cutout to allow just enough room to wall-mount these speakers (I used a DeWalt drywall cutter with depth guide for this, with tons of drywall dust in the process). In sum, mounting is possible on a standard-thickness wood-framed wall, but not recommended for a novice DIY installer.

Got them when they went in discount and they paired great with my system.

Bought 14 speakers for my new house. waiting to install it by January. will give a proper review by that time

Had a 7.1 and a 5.1 installed in the living room, and the kitchen very satisfied with the ceiling speakers from sonace

Ceiling speaker sounds amazing, I love it and looking forward to add more

For speakers that are originally priced at $599 per pair, the construction is very flimsy and on one of the speakers, the circuit board was cracked, resulting in a dead speaker. This is not what I expect from $600 speakers. I am laughing that the original price is $599, because I bought these speakers "on sale" for $150 per pair, which it is a stretch to say they are worth even that much. I just want you to know what you are buying. You are not buying $600 speakers. Why do manufacturers and retailers feel they can earn our trust when they advertise a speaker for $1,000,000.00 and its on sale for $999,850 off of the original price (sarcasm) anyway? Yes, I am sure I am saving $999,850. The speaker that did work out of the box sounds about what a $100 speaker should sound like. Not that you shouldn't buy this speaker, just know what you are getting into.

They are average speakers. I though because the retail price was very high, they would sound better. It is okay for my outdoor covered deck. I have to minió the sound to get them from having a distorted sound.

First off, let me say that I purchased these when they were on sale at a very steep discount versus the MSRP (as it appears did the other reviewer). I was shopping for speakers for my new house at around the $400 a pair price point, so I can't really speak to how these size up to others in the $600 a pair/$300 each category. That said, I have been able to compare these side by side (in a test wall built for this purpose) to Polk V60s (not the VT60s which are half the price), Polk MC60s, Outdoor Speaker Depot MK-650s, Infinity CS60Rs, and Russound RSF-610s. I have also compared the Polk V60s to Klipsch R-3650s and R-1650s, and previously ruled them out for my purposes as in my opinion they placed too much emphasis on the high end of the frequency spectrum. What I think can easily be lost in someone who picked these up at a discount rate is how good these really are. As a general matter, if you were to just purchase in-ceiling speakers from any manufacturer and install them in your home, you probably will think they sound good (or, as I think some who purchased these might think, these sound "good for the money" as they are skeptical of the deal they got on the speakers and don't want to give too positive of a review). But, when you do a real comparison, side by side, with switch buttons to allow you to go from speaker to speaker mid-song (and test a broad range of music you will listen to), that's when you really notice where a speaker fails miserably or shines. Okay, up-front qualifiers and level-setting out of the way, here are my thoughts. Build Quality. Amazing. This is one of those things you will CERTAINLY overlook if you are not auditioning various speakers (and seeing the physical unit outside of the box and not just mounted in a display). Most manufacturers build these with very thin plastic, and handling from the back feels like you're going to break something. You also typically see a circuit board on the back that's completely unprotected (with the better speakers having some sort of protection and/or the board being a full circle around the speaker to add strength as opposed to just a portion. This thing has a complete encasement of the board, and you can actually set the speaker on its back and it will be completely supported. Also note the nearly complete encasement of the speaker from the side (this is important because (1) you get more bass response and (2) you avoid bits of drywall crumbling off on your speaker and getting behind your cone). Also note that with these speakers you are able to pivot the tweeter (a given for higher priced speakers), but you can also pivot the cone itself (a very high priced feature). Next, take a look at the connectors on the back. Gold plated, push-down connectors (not the flimsy tab-types you see on most speakers), and they are incredibly smooth versus those of the Polk V60s for example. Also, note that the grills are magnetic (so you don't have the lip of the speakers showing when mounted), and the magnets are impressively strong versus what I've seen of competitors. You also have metal spring tabs that come with these (pulled them out in the photos I took, as they are a bit too tight with these on for my pre-construction brackets), which hold the speaker in place in the ceiling in order to give you time to pick up your tools to finish the install (just, wow). Next up, sound. Cheaper speakers usually have a color to the sound (typically a pronounced mid-range). Think 80's music played through stock speakers on an old truck. More expensive speakers tend to lose that color. To some this can sound like you're "missing" part of the sound, but if you listen to a live album you can really see that "live" sounds right on a speaker such as this, whereas on a more entry level speaker it will still sound like an album recording. As your ears adjust more to a speaker like this, you really see how tainted you've been by other speakers, and when you switch between them you'll hear that color I've been describing. Also, note that these speakers actually have a very impressive amount of bass for ceiling speakers (due in large part to the mostly encased enclosure). When I say "for ceiling speakers" I don't mean to suggest you're lacking at all with these speakers. You won't get the same sound you will if you had an additional subwoofer in your mix, or something like an 8" shelf speaker. But, you'll still have rich, full sound. I'm not going to add anything to these in my whole home setup. Now, let's talk value. Sonance is a pretty expensive speaker brand. This particular model, the MAG6R, appears to be a Best Buy/Magnolia exclusive ("MAG" probably means "Magnolia," 6 is the size, R is for "round"). The comparable "rest of the world" line appears to be the Visual Performance series. If you compare the features (pivoting woofer, pivoting tweeter, woven woofer cone, silk tweeter, etc.), you come to the conclusion that this shares features from the 62R, 64R, and 66R speakers (coming in at $400, $500, and $725 a pair, respectively at MSRP). In other words, the MSRP price is probably accurate for this set. If you got them on sale, you got an amazing deal. If you're thinking about them at MSRP, check them out and compare to comparably priced speakers and see what you think. But, please do yourself a favor and do a side by side to whatever else you're considering.

You get what you pay for. Honestly the sound is BAD. I had to return them right away. That's the good thing about them, that you can return them once you hear how muffled they sound. I hooked them to a really nice brand new Yamaha receiver on the zone 2 (so 100 S each speaker,) and unfortunately the sound disappoints. Please look for a speaker with the tweeter completely off the woofer. Like the Polk 2-way or a Bowers and Wilkins