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Being audio-conscious, albeit not an audiophile, I bought these to replace my old JBL sound effects speakers as my front left and rights. The tweeters on both drivers broke, and I needed something new. Since I needed speakers in a pinch I went to the old two stores in my area: CircuitCity and the Bose outlet. The Bose outlet had their 301s for $219, which was a decent price. Because my CircuitCity was closing, these were discounted to only $100. I bought these impulsively (knowing that Polk is a good name in audio) and I have been impressed. The mids are not as clear as in my JBLs, but the treble is much more audible than my JBLs were (when the tweeters worked). Although they're wall-mount speakers, I use them with the included stand things and they work just fine. If you're looking for some speaker replacements and want something good, small, and relatively inexpensive then these speakers are a great choice.

Produces lots full sound for rear channels. Can be mounted in most any position to give that custom installed look. Had expensive B&W 805's for rears and decied to move the 805s to front for another seperate room setup. Put these in place and did not notice a change at all. Thundering choppers flying from front to rear still sound great. Also handles the subtle sounds of crickets in the outdoor scenes very cleanly. No need to spend more on super expensive rears -- save the money for your center speaker of big subwoofer. Great performance and good value.

I walked in magnolia and was pretty much looking for a bookshelf set of speakers, the ones I liked were $700 to $1500, that was not an option for me, considering this is a secondary system in the house and dropping some coin on the 46'' lcd left me with wanting to take it easy on my wallet for a while. Also the tv is in an unusual corner and mounting it to the wall is not an option,hense my several pairs of floor speakers are just too tall.
After listening to all these high end book shelf speakers, I decided that I would still need a subwoofer at least $300 to $800. I then recalled polk audio sold at some high end music stores as there low end speakers. I asked to listen to some after reading alot of good reviews. I liked how much base the book shelf speakers had and loved the price, but the midrange was a little weak. Then listened to the OWM3's $200 and liked the fact there was more mid range, than the polk book shelfs and were smaller.
These have very little base so I added a polk psw111 8'' 300w subwoofer $300 and they sound great together. For movies a polk front center speaker is next on my list along with two more OWM3's for rear sound since the rear walls workout.
These speakers can put out the sound in a medium to small sized, need a center speaker for movies in my opinion.

The best book shelf speakers that I ever owned. I was so impressed that I bought a pair to use as the real channel speakers on my home theater. They have crisp clear sound.

These speakers are every bit as good as they are advertised. One thing has to be kept in mind that they are for home theater application.