Short and sweet: I was looking for speakers who should make up for the lousy sound of the new LCD TVs. Long sought, tried many: diverse sound bars and active speaker. They have for this purpose (and my taste) the best, because most balanced sound. Many bars remain sound tinny, powered speakers are often too bassy: newscasters are then already too much to bear (any approach of a sonorous tone sounds like an explosion). These here are tired of spoken word sounds clear and yet still enough sound remains for action movies.
Only annoying blue PowerLED, but you can try to glue well; o)
