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if you're looking to buy speakers to use in a home theater it makes sense to buy a set of four standards they take up the same amount of space and are usually capable of better dynamics and deeper bass the ELAC Devo F 5 for example costs the same as one of my favorite speakers the B&W 685 s - but sound a whole lot better these are designed by one of the best speaker engineers in the business today Andrew Jones he recently made his name making great value speakers that also sound good for pioneer the f5 is a 3-way design with a one-inch tweeter and 35.2 five-inch woven fiber woofers it comes in an attractive brushed vinyl finish but we did find it attracts scuffs much easier than a wood wrap the speakers come with a protective grille and unusually the mounting pins are on the speaker and not the grill these are rare ported speakers so you'll need to move them out from the wall by at least three feet to avoid boom enos sound quality is excellent while large tales like these can sound overly bassy these are very even-handed the bass that is there is very controlled and quite deep they are also detailed and more so than other andrew jones designs but they're not too bright we tested these speakers with a set of b5 surrounds the c5 Center and the s10 EQ sub which also uses your smart phone for setup at $1500 for the whole package it offers great performance for the money while the smaller B sixes offer better value in stereo and 564 just the towers they are competitive with designs up to a thousand bucks these are really nice speakers this has been Ty Pendlebury for cnet.com