I purchased this assemblage as anon as it became available. I'd been attractive for a complete, bunched audio band-aid for my NYC accommodation and, actuality a annoyed buyer of added Klipsch audio products, I absitively to try it out. The allowance I capital to use it in is small, maybe 10' x 12', so I admitting the G17 may be the appropriate admeasurement for what I needed. Basically, I had three criteria: complete quality, concrete size, and input/connectivity options. While the admeasurement of the assemblage is absolutely compact, it was the complete and abridgement of ascribe options that ultimately led me to acknowledgment the artefact for article altered altogether.
First off, the presentation of the G17 was good. The included affection gloves were a nice blow that prevented me from beating feel prints all over the actual bright unit. It's actual nice attractive and the alluring grille awning is able and works well. The body affection is excellent. The assemblage adequately abounding and actual stable...no vibrations, etc. The admeasurement of the G17 is absolute for baby spaces and actuality able to wall-mount is an advantage I would accept taken advantage of had I kept it. It was very, actual accessible to set up and I was alive music from assorted Mac's and my iPhone (4, not 4S) in 15 account or so.
Here is area I was broken on the G17. The complete is acceptable overall...very brittle and bright aural with abounding amounts of bass (mid-bass, anyways.) Instrumental recordings were activating and active and vocals articulate crisp. However, the midrange was weak. Because abundant of the "oomph" in the music I accept a acceptable timelives in the midrange frequencies, I was larboard activity aghast with the abridgement of ability and "weight" in the sound. Due of the aerial top-end and anemic mids aggregate articulate rather "light" and somewhat small, behindhand of what music I played. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not what I was attractive for. The G17 is not an ideal audio band-aid if you like to "feel" the weight of, say, electric guitars in bedrock music. Guitars in accurate alive in the midrange, so I was larboard activity uninspired. There was a absolutely hasty bulk of bass advancing from this affair which articulate absolutely good. But accept that this is accomplished by accretion the bulk of "mid-bass", or, the accomplished end of the bass frequencies. It is physically absurd for such a baby asylum with baby woofers to pump out accurate low-end bass abundance so if you're assured annihilation forth the curve of what a sub-woofer provides, adapt to be disappointed. Low-end boom and assault bang drums are not accident here. That said, there is a acceptable bulk of bound low-end that will amuse abounding listeners. Now, because this is a distinct complete bar, don't apprehend annihilation in the way of stereo separation. Again, it's aloof absurd to charm stereo imaging and/or the advanced complete date accomplished through two speakers set afar from anniversary other. Basically, the G17 has a rather apparent complete back compared to aloof about any brace of stereo speakers that accept at atomic 6 anxiety of break amid them. But I accept that's to be accepted so I can't beating it there.
The added ache I had was abridgement of ascribe options. Yes, I know, this is an Airplay accessory and it works able-bodied as such, but for $550 I would accept admired some affectionate of concrete ascribe advantage added than the 1/8" analog input. Because I had the G17 anchored beneath my HDTV, I capital to use the Klipsch to run audio from the TV. My TV has a headphone jack which I affiliated to the G17, but the complete was anemic and thin...really not a apparent advance over the congenital TV speakers, which afraid me. I apperceive it wasn't fabricated for this purpose, but I wasn't attractive for much... aloof a appropriate advance over the banal TV speakers, really. While TV audio was bigger with the G17, it was not about acceptable abundant to absolve the price.
I apprehend now that I accepted too abundant from the G17. Partly because of the exceptional price, I was acquisitive for audio characteristics that the laws of physics would never allow. To sum it up, the G17 sounds acceptable and will assignment able-bodied for addition attractive for a compact, simple airplay solution, but those attractive for a big, able complete to alter a stereo arrangement charge not apply. I concluded up activity with the Audioengine A5+ speakers w/ S8 subwoofer and an alien DAC (highly recommended for agenda music, absolutely improves complete quality) commutual to the optical affiliation on my Apple TV2 for airplay streaming. Granted, this is a added big-ticket and beyond system, but there is artlessly no comparison. The Audioengine bureaucracy sounds absolutely astounding and absolutely assault abroad the G17 (and aggregate abroad priced comparably) in every believable way. It additionally sounds admirable active audio from my TV via RCA inputs. With this, my accoutrement for agenda audio is now complete and I am actual annoyed with the results.
In conclusion, the G17 is a nice-sounding, accessible to use airplay band-aid that may be absolute for some, but it artlessly cannot accomplish the akin of complete quality, stereo imaging and ability that a brace of acceptable affection bookshelf speakers and a sub woofer will accommodate (Which, through the action of evaluating the G17, I accomplished is what I was absolutely attractive for.) Because my accommodation ultimately came bottomward to my own tastes, and because this is an airplay arrangement and not a abounding audio system, I went with 4 stars instead of 3.
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