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Best Floorstanding Tower Speakers

From , former About.com Guide

Floorstanding speakers are the largest type of speaker, and are available in a wide range of styles and prices. Their advantages include placement flexibility in your room and you can take them with you when moving. Another advantage is that the cabinet or enclosure is optimized or tuned to provide the best performance. Because of this, most audio enthusiasts and discriminating listeners prefer floorstanding speakers.

1. Infinity Classia C336 Tower Speakers

If you're searching for tower speakers that offer good performance for stereo and home theater at an affordable price, put the Infinity Classia C336 speakers on your short list of main speakers. They have great sound quality for a home theater system and will easily satisfy stereo enthusiasts.

2. KEF iQ50 Compact Floorstanding Speakers

The KEF iQ50 speakers are among the best speakers I've reviewed in the sub-$1000 per pair price range and it's clear to me why serious music lovers revere KEF speakers. Fifty years of speaker design research and refinement has paid off. Although the KEF speakers sounded great with movie sources, their real strong points are music reproduction. Neutral, uncolored and balanced are a few of the descriptions I would use to summarize my review.

3. BG Radia Z-92 Tower Speakers

BG Corp.
BG Radia, known for their planar ribbon drivers offers the Z-92 floorstanding tower speakers as part of their Z-Series line. The Z-92 is a 3-way stereo speaker that features two 6.5-inch Aluminum woofers, a Neo10 midrange and a Neo3 PDR tweeter. The Neo10 midrange and Neo3 PDR tweeter are planar ribbon drivers, the company’s signature speaker. BG has built their reputation on planar ribbon drivers, which offer outstanding clarity and detail. Their high-definition qualities present a clean midrange presence and a high-end that resolves details that often go unnoticed in music and movie soundtracks. They deserve serious consideration for a mid-priced to high-end stereo system and sell for $2499 /pair. Read my full review of the Z-92 speakers.

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