Infinity Primus P162 Bookshelf Speaker Review

[allargon]

No site is the definitive end-all be all. I read various websites and research any product I plan to purchase as much as possible. Audioholics is pretty good. They are among the best. Are they perfect? Of course not. Gene just said Consumer Reports likes Bose. Bose and CR don't have the best history.

Consumer Reports has been off on cars, appliances, electronics, lawn equipment, etc. They're not perfect, either.

I am an Infinity Primus owner. I like my Primus'. They're fine for the budget I paid for them. Are they fatiguing? Well, I hate my center channel. However, I don't find them fatiguing. Tom found the bookshelves fatiguing. Well, that's Tom. He's a professional reviewer whom I trust. However, it's subjective. I despise bright speakers. I won't go near Klipsch or Polk. However, others love them. Different folks (even reviewers) have different preferences.

 

[Alex2507]

Yeah, pretty sure I'm going to pick up the P142's sometime. I'm really liking the betas and these should be a good match for some surrounds that won't cost too much and will do for my system until I get out of school.

Get the 152's. Then you can cross everything over at 80Hz as opposed to the 100Hz for the 142's and they are not much more money. The best place to get them is here:

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/Harman-Audio__W0QQ_armrsZ1

Full warranty at auction prices blah blah blah. Something is wrong with the site at the moment but they'll get it sorted out.

Rock on Dude.

 

[redman_43]

I couldn't agree with the review more. I've got a pair in my system for the fronts and will be moving them to the rear for surround duty when I upgrade to towers up front. Awesome little (relatively speaking, of course) speakers for not much dough.

Thumbs up to Infinity for a job well done.

 

[GOYA]

There is a glaring omission in the P162 review: allowance for a break-in period. Maybe the reviewer did allow for this but the noted harsh highs and decreased bass extension could very well be a result of out-of-the-box performance.

As always, the first thing I do with a new set of speakers is it test out their low end response.

As an owner of these speakers I can atest to the improvement of the speakers performance after 10-14 days of moderate use.

 

[lsiberian]

There is a glaring omission in the P162 review: allowance for a break-in period. Maybe the reviewer did allow for this but the noted harsh highs and decreased bass extension could very well be a result of out-of-the-box performance.



As an owner of these speakers I can atest to the improvement of the speakers performance after 10-14 days of moderate use.

This isn't a glaring omission.
http://www.audioholics.com/education/loudspeaker-basics/speaker-break-in-fact-or-fiction/

Read the above article for further education on the subject.

I will summarize by saying break-in is time it takes for you ears to tolerate bad sound or to adjust to good sound after years of bad sound.

This is why FR is probably your best measure of loudspeaker quality. However do to several factors most manufacturers compromise something to fit size constraints. Listening helps a person to determine what they can tolerate.