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if you've been looking at buying a new home theater set you will have heard the word Atmos bandied around a few times while it's not really ready for primetime as they say they have produced the first set of Atmos ready speakers we've seen in the CNET offices and they're damn good and not because of Atmos the pioneer SPE BS 73 LR our stand mounted speakers that can be used as surrounds or as fronts and they do really well in both instances these andrew jones design speakers are seven hundred and forty nine dollars us and challenged my favorite B&W 685 s two speakers for sound quality as well as build quality the Pioneers featured two concentric mid tweeter arrays with one designed to fire at the ceiling for Atmos hide effects given that the app must mature at the moment is pretty dreadful we were relieved to find they work great with normal soundtracks and music - these are excellent performers very detailed but without the bass response compromises that usually means bass is supple and expressive these are not bright but there is a slight treble bump which means they sound best with orchestral music or vocals but less good with harder edged material if you're looking at a set of speakers that scream oh but don't want to mortgage your house then the Pioneer SP EBS 73 are very highly recommended this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you