Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 22 x 31 inches ; 71.3 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 73 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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- Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
- ASIN: B000GU78Z4
- Item model number: SKS-HT540B
By : Onkyo
List Price :
Price : $235.58
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Technical Details
- 7.1-channel home theater speaker set
- 130 watts total output on 2-way bass reflex front, center, and surround speakers
- Front and center 2-way speakers feature 5-inch diaphragm woofers and 1-inch balanced floating tweeter
- Bass reflex powered subwoofer with 230 watts output
- Subwoofer construction includes a 10-inch cone driver
Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
The 7.1-channel Onkyo SKS-HT540 speaker package is the perfect addition to your DVD player and home theater receiver. It features 2-way bass reflex front, center and surround speakers that provide an excellent soundstage with 130 watts of output each, plus an earth-shaking 230W powered subwoofer for rumbling impact.
Each of the front and center speakers feature dual 5-inch woofers with the original OMF (Onkyo Micro Fiber) diaphragm technology, plus they use pure cotton cones for an extremely fast and accurate response. The powered subwoofer offers an earth-shaking 10-inch cone. Each of the eight speakers has a two wires that connect to the receiver at one end and the speaker at the other.
Specifications
Front Speakers
- Type: 2-Way, Bass Reflex
- Woofer: 5-inch OMF Diaphragm x 2
- Tweeter: 1-inch Balanced-Dome, Floating
- Frequency response: 55 Hz-50 kHz
- Sensitivity: 86 dB/W/m
- Maximum power: 130 watts
- Dimensions: 6-3/16 x 17-1/16 x 7-7/8 inches
Surround Speakers
Center Speaker
Subwoofer
The 7.1-channel Onkyo SKS-HT540 speaker package is the perfect addition to your DVD player and home theater receiver. It features 2-way bass reflex front, center and surround speakers that provide an excellent soundstage with 130 watts of output each, plus an earth-shaking 230W powered subwoofer for rumbling impact. Each of the front and center speakers feature dual 5-inch woofers with the original OMF (Onkyo Micro Fiber) diaphragm technology, plus they use pure cotton cones for an extremely fast and accurate response. The powered subwoofer offers an earth-shaking 10-inch cone. Each of the eight speakers has a two wires that connect to the receiver at one end and the speaker at the other.
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Customer Reviews
I spent a good 2 weeks looking for a surround sound speaker system for my home theater. I was only looking to spend around $300 and I really wasn't expecting to find anything great at that price. But then I continued to hear wonderful things about Onkyo speakers and I had to try them out.
I purchased them here on Amazon for $280 ($230 + $50 for shipping). The speakers were nicely packed and arrived farily quick. The speakers not only look great but they feel as though they're high quality. No one would ever guess that these speakers cost under $300. Especially when you hear them. They sound amazing.
Movies sound great along with video games, (xbox 360). The speakers let you hear all the action, and the sub-woofer lets you feel every explosion. Onkyo's SKS-HT540's Surround Sound Speaker System is a treat to listen to and you will not be dissapointed with this purchase. A 7.1 speaker package with a 230 watt powered sub-woofer for under $300? That's a great deal!
Only downside, (and I've read this in other reviews about these speakers) is that they don't sound great when listening to music. They don't capture the full sound that tower speakers would. Which makes sense, so if you're going to listen to music with these speakers, you may feel a little dissapointed. If it's just movies and video games... You'll be happy.
I will say this about hooking up surround sound speakers (and this goes for all of them), when you first plug in everything, you have to configure your receiver to get the best possible sound out of your speakers. For instance, treble, bass and speaker size are going to dramatically change the sound of your theater. So, if when you first hear these speakers and you're not satisfied with the sound... You didn't set them up right, because my system sounds incredible once I dialed everything in.
I've had the SKS-HT540 speakers for about a week and am using them paired with an Onkyo TX-SR606 receiver to play movies from a Phillips DVP 5960 upscaling DVD player via HDMI and music from an older Sony 5 disc changer with stereo outputs as well as for video-gaming on an Xbox 360 via the optical output.
The box these come in is gigantic, and you would think it's a small refrigerator, but that's good packing for shipping as they arrived completely undamaged. The size and wattage are the same as Onkyo represents them; the guy that claims the fronts are smaller than listed is way off base. The speaker wire that comes with them is crap as is to be expected (buy your own 16 AWG and you'll be fine); even the most expensive set ups don't come with nice wire, and most don't come with any wire so put a plus in the Onkyo box.
I'm currently only using the front three speakers as well as one of the surrounds and the subwoofer, because I have a pair of 5" driver bookshelf speakers that are better voice matched as surrounds for 5.1 sound with the front three, I put the surround speaker in there as a 6th channel for 6.1. I'll say the surrounds are substantially weaker than the front three (my AVR set its cutoff at 120Hz vs. 80Hz for the front three and the sound that comes from it is noticeably thinner than the fronts and my other surrounds; this is reasonable since it's a 3 1/8" driver and .75 tweeter, and its sound would likely be less noticeable mixed in with the other four of its kind). The one other negative I can cite for the subwoofer is that it doesn't have a phase switch so if you find you're having trouble with resonance, you're going to have to place it differently.
Those negatives aside, this speaker set is so much better than its price would indicate (I got it refurbished for $219 elsewhere online). The subwoofer puts out surprisingly tight bass and powerful LFE effects for movies. The front three speakers and subwoofer alone would be worth the money paid so the additional surrounds are bonuses in my mind. Movies are fantastic, surround imaging transitions are very smooth, highs and lows are equally well handled, and the subwoofer has more power than I can use in an apartment. I can feel the bass vibrating the furniture and occasionally creating a slight breeze in its direct line. My movie collection has come alive and I've started hunting down well mixed 5.1 sound tracks to audition (Master and Commander and Saving Private Ryan are great; The Indiana Jones Trilogy is nice; the X-Men movies are starting to seem better even with the weak writing of the last one).
I had assumed that movies would be well handled, but that I would be sorely disappointed with music through these. I couldn't be more wrong. Varying back and forth between Prologic modes, direct handling, and stereo that allots below cutoff bass to the subwoofer I've been extraordinarily pleased with the sound on my favorite jazz (Coltrane's Blue Train; Miles Davis Kinda Blue; Getz ; Gilberto; and some Woody Herman) bluegrass (Rounder Record's 25th anniversary 2 disc) and other variously chosen others that I hoped would tax the system and show its flaws (Dire Straits; Jethro Tull; Cyprus Hill; Grieg's Peer Gynt; Ray Charles the Atlantic Years). I've been playing these at half volume (for reference, I play movies and TV below half and my wife gets miffed), and it's like I'm in the studio or venue with the musicians. I've heard key chatter on the saxophones, Stan Getz's breathiness on his tracks, Joao Gilberto's voice wavering at the deep registers... the detail is phenomenal to me (granted I'd never label myself an audiophile). I'm discovering layers of information I'd never known was there in my CDs. The sound is warm and oddly sweet to my ears. I haven't found a passage or instrument that can make the front three stumble and I've tried hard. They do a very nice job at reproducing dialogue in movies and male voices as well (a weak spot for many smaller satellite packages with small drivers).
In short...
Pros
-Excellent front three and subwoofer
-Excellent music and movie reproduction (from these speakers)
-Excellent dialogue reproduction (even male voices)
-They look kind of pretty and are great in proportion to a 46" screen (I'll try and post a pic)
-Surprisingly tight and powerful bass from the sub for its price
-Astonishing price for all of this together (turnkey 7.1 ain't cheap anywhere)
Cons:
-Weak surrounds comparatively, but still as good or better than many other satellite systems
-Thin wire included (but many don't even include wire so not much of a con)
-Sub has no phasing switch
In total, I couldn't be more pleased or feel I got better value for my money. If you're looking for inexpensive entry into a 7.1 system as I was, you can't go wrong with this.
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