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hey I'm Matthew Muscovy ak from Siena and we're going to take a look at the Pioneer s PPK 52 FS this is a budget home theater speaker system and is currently selling for six hundred and thirty dollars now this is an update to pioneers excellent budget speaker system from last year and it's one of the best values you're going to find in home audio it's a 5.1 speaker system comprised of two tower speakers in the front a large center channel speaker 2 bookshelf speakers in the rear and the subwoofer like any standalone speakers you're going to need to pair this up with an a/v receiver so it's not a fully integrated system like a home theater in a box or a sound bar the tower speakers feature a removable grille in the front and you can see they feature three five and a quarter inch woofers plus a one-inch tweeter on the top around back there's also two ports so you want to place these about a foot away from the wall the center channel is unusually large for a system like this which makes placement a little difficult it doesn't quite fit under most TVs without blocking the screen so you need to experiment with placement options depending on your home set up the rear speakers are pretty big as well so you're going to need a lot of room for this system in general the subwoofer has an 8 inch down firing woofer on the bottom a port on the front and an onboard 100 watt amp all of the speakers feature the same vinyl woodgrain finish which looks decent but it's not quite as nice as the finish on competing systems like the energy take classic 5.1 the system also only comes in black so it's not going to be a great fit for every decor what makes the system so impressive is its sound quality we had a resident audio file steve guttenberg listen to the pioneers and he was blown away finding the sound quality close to our reference appeareance speakers that cost over twice as much both music and movies sounded outstanding and the pioneers relatively compact subwoofer really blended well with the full-size tower speakers if your highest priority is sound quality and you've got a relatively modest budget these are the speakers you want to get so overall our only reservations about this system is that it's big and the finish isn't going to fit in every living room but if you've got space this is a phenomenal value and you're getting the best sounding speakers we've heard at this price I'm Matthew Muscovy ak from CNET and this is the pioneer SP PK 52 FS