Wharfedale W-2 Surround Speakers.

[afterlife2]

Are the Wharfedale W-2 speakers well regarded around here?
Wharfedale WH-2 Series Surround Speakers Reviews

 

[cmiler44]

I would like to know this also..Ive read there good bipole..

 

[afterlife2]

Bump to the left.

 

[afterlife2]

No one here has tried these???

 

[sholling]

I used to recommend them a lot as surrounds for budget systems when they were still being cleared out for $80+S&H. MSRP was $199/pr so $80 was great but they're now long discontinued and to the best of my knowledge there aren't many left in the channel. I know Wild West sold out a long time ago and the only place I can find them online wants $215/pr plus $25 shipping which is ridiculous. I have a couple of pair in white (one pair unopened, one open) stored in my shed and they're decent bipolar surrounds if you can find them new for $100/pr or less but I wouldn't pay more than that. Don't expect them to play on the level of $400 bipolar surrounds but they have a vanilla enough sound to play well with most speakers. That's the key when choosing surrounds from a company other than the one that made your mains. You want the surrounds to do the job without calling undo "hay I'm different" attention to themselves. PM me if you're interested and I'll swing you a deal on them but they'll be coming from California.

Link to specs.

• Pair of bipolar satellite speakers for rendering clear and spacious surround effects in a multichannel listening system
• Each speaker uses two 1.1-inch dome tweeters and two 4-inch Polypropylene cone woofers with hand-wound voice coils
• Recommended for use with amplifiers delivering up to 120 watts per channel
• 4- to 8-ohm impedance, 88 dB sensitivity; 80 to 20,000 Hz frequency response
• Measures 8.9 x 9.6 x 5 inches (W x H x D)

 

[afterlife2]

sholling thanks for your insights. I already have them in a box, but never used for surround settings.

 

[sholling]

Hook them up I think you'll like them. One thing I did was put some felt pads on the back to act as standoffs.