If you’re short on time and just want the highlights of this article, here it is:
The Sevens from Klipsch offers a great audio experience with plenty of features and a good sound quality. It is ready to use in your home without the need of a receiver and has a variety of inputs that can connect directly to your TV, turntable, or PC. It is easy to set up and the Klipsch Connect app makes it even easier.
The The Sevens offers 200-watt power and a 6.5″ high-excursion fiber-composite cone woofer, and 1″ titanium LTS vented tweeter with Tractrix horn, that deliver a full, high-quality sound. It also has a dynamic bass EQ that dynamically adjusts the bass level based on volume, and a single RCA line-level output that can support an optional powered subwoofer for increased bass response. The Sevens also supports Bluetooth 5, allowing you to stream hi-res 192 kHz / 24-bit audio from your mobile device.
Overall, the The Sevens from Klipsch is a great option for those who want a mid-century styled bookshelf speaker with plenty of features and a great sound quality. It is a great pick for users who don’t need the deepest and lowest of mids and bass. However, if you are looking for a truly high-end sound experience or higher-resolution audio streams, then the Sevens may not be the right choice for you.
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Klipsch The Sevens Review: Sound quality
Let me tell you something right off the bat.
The sound quality performance you'll end up getting from a speaker will always depend on your room acoustics - particularly room dimensions and speaker positions.
The impact of the combination of these two is actually so strong that in most cases, it doesn't even make sense to utter a single word on sound quality without speaking of them.
This is also why it's not unusual to see completely different reviews of the same speaker.
In one case the speaker might be placed in a sweet spot inside the room and hence the user might be satisfied. In other cases the same speaker might be ill placed and hence user might even have returned it.
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The point most people miss here is that it mostly isn't even about the engineering behind the speaker itself. It's about where you place the speaker inside which room.
So, in order to solve this problem, I've partnered with Acoustics and Audio Engineering PhD Andrea Cicero from AC Acustica and created Soundton - a simple, 2D, browser accessible online speaker placement calculator.
With Soundton, now there's a way to figure the sound quality of most speakers before you buy them.
Read more about its working principles at soundton.com.
The end colormap provides you the locations with the best (green) and worst (red) acoustics.