What the maker puts in writing
- “Powered by an integrated 150W amplifier, these active Floorstanding Speakers deliver breathtaking imaging with refined detail and impressive bass”
- “PREMIUM NEODYMIUM TWEETERS - High-performance tweeters produce a captivating stereo soundstage while providing spacious off axis dispersion”
- “Dual 6.5-inch woven glass fiber drivers for exceptionally accurate midrange with stunning acoustic playback and undistorted, low-frequency performance”
- “Expertly tuned, internally braced MDF wood cabinets produce a full range of sound and feature down-firing bass ports for deep and natural omni-directional bass”
- “Connect your audio source through RCA and Optical inputs or Bluetooth 5 wireless streaming without the need for a separate amplifier or receiver, and add more bass with the subwoofer out”
It is the only product on this shelf that is a complete system
Every other speaker here is passive — a cabinet of drivers that makes no sound until an amplifier drives it.
So the honest arithmetic:
This pair — $599.98 — needs nothing else.
Dayton T65 pair — $229.98 + a competent stereo amplifier ≈ $430
Fluance Signature pair — $799.99 + an amplifier ≈ over $1,000
KEF Q11 — $1,249.99 each, so $2,499.98 a pair, + an amplifier of 15 to 225 W
And there is a second advantage the listing does not spell out: in a powered design the amplifier is matched to the drivers by the maker. Impedance, sensitivity and power handling stop being your problem — which is exactly why this listing does not publish them and every passive listing here needs to.
A modern television has two audio outputs in practice. HDMI ARC, which needs a soundbar or AV receiver that speaks it. And optical — a small square socket carrying digital stereo or compressed surround.
Headphone jacks and analog outputs have largely disappeared from televisions.
So a pair of powered towers with an optical input does what a soundbar does, better: real drivers, and a genuine stereo spread because the two cabinets stand meters apart rather than inches.
The listing names the uses: “TV, Turntable, PC & Bluetooth”. Two RCA inputs let a turntable with a built-in phono stage and a computer both stay connected. Bluetooth 5 covers a phone. And the subwoofer out is the sensible admission that a 6.5-inch driver in a 37.8 in (960 mm) cabinet has a floor.
Down-firing ports, which solve a placement problem
Down-firing bass ports for deep and natural omni-directional bass.
The direction a bass port faces decides how much the wall behind the speaker matters.
A rear port pressed near a wall is choked — airflow restricted, bass compressed, and at high level the port can audibly chuff. A down-firing port vents into the gap between the cabinet and the floor, so the wall is irrelevant and the floor itself provides the coupling.
“Omni-directional” is fair: bass wavelengths are meters long and do not have a direction in any case, but venting downward spreads the output into the floor boundary evenly.
Four strategies on this shelf, each with a stated reason: down-firing here · front and rear vents on the Focal (“frontal impact” plus “encompassing bass”) · port bungs included on the KEF, to seal the vent near a wall · sealed box on the NHT, which has no port at all.
Woven glass fiber, and an internally braced cabinet
Woven glass fiber is a stiff, light composite: stiffness pushes cone breakup above the crossover point, and low mass lets the cone start and stop quickly. The weave distributes stiffness in two directions rather than one.
Internally braced MDF matters more than it sounds. A cabinet panel is a large flat surface driven by the pressure inside; left unbraced it flexes and radiates sound of its own, smearing what the drivers are doing. Bracing ties opposite panels together and raises their resonant frequency out of the way.
27,048 g the pair is published, which is substantial for a 960 mm cabinet and consistent with real bracing.
But it is a two-way
Dual 6.5-inch drivers and a tweeter. One crossover point.
Which means the 6.5-inch cones handle bass and midrange together — asked to move air at 50 Hz and track fine detail at 2 kHz with the same diaphragm. The midrange is where voices live.
Only Dayton’s T65 is the other two-way here. Seven listings are three-way, with a driver dedicated to the midrange: Rockville, NHT, Focal, KEF, SVS, Energy, Fluance’s own Signature.
In fairness, a powered design mitigates it: the maker can equalize the drivers electronically in a way a passive crossover cannot, because the amplifier sits before the filter rather than after it.
What is not published
No frequency response. Only KEF publishes one, with the only tolerance on this shelf: “37Hz (-6dB), with in-room bass extending to 26Hz”.
No dome material. “Neodymium” names the magnet — smaller and stronger than ferrite for the same force, which allows a more compact tweeter and tighter driver spacing. It says nothing about the diaphragm you hear.
No amplifier qualifier. “150W” for an integrated amplifier is an output figure, and whether it is RMS, per channel or total is not stated. On a powered speaker that is the one number that matters.
No sensitivity and no impedance — which, uniquely on this shelf, genuinely do not apply.
260 × 216 × 960 mm published: the second shortest cabinet here, after the Polk.
Prices quoted in this text were read on October 4, 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
