Roxel RBS 300 Bookshelf Speaker, Wood Effect Cabinet with 4 inch Enhanced Carbon Fibre Woofer, 1Inch Silk Dome Tweeter, Detailed and Refined Sound, Deep Bass 150W RMS (Cherry Wood)

My expectations were low. Very low.I purchased these as a stopgap solution whilst I save for a pair of AE100 Mk2s.Initial impression upon opening the box were of a fairly heavy and well finished speaker. The cherry wood vinyl wrap is not objectionable and the drivers are very neatly rebated into the baffle. The grilles are neatly made with stainless steel mounting posts.Visually they are perfectly acceptable with the chamfered corners, and the carbon fiber woofer looks a million dollars. The 1 inch silk dome tweeter sits in a nicely done, if rather shallow, wave guide which should help with treble dispersion. The socket head screws securing the drivers are a nice touch.The cabinet is 18mm MDF throughout, and being of such a small size there is no need for internal bracing with such thick panels and indeed there is none. The internal wiring is exceptionally tidy and is formed into harnesses using cloth tape. An unexpected feature at this price. There is also some cabinet damping by way of polyseter acoustic wadding, again not what I would expect for the price.The crossover is the most simple of first order designs consisting of just an electrolytic capacitor on the tweeter, with the woofer left to roll of by itself. I suspect that replacing the cap with an audio grade polypropylene component would be beneficial, and i's a very easy DIY task.The sound is, quite simply, phenomenal. Don't forget these are £50, they are speakers for people who can't even afford speakers, and I found them astonishing. I genuinely cannot pick any serious faults with them, especially given the price.Bass is deep, strong, and tuneful. Midrange is communicative without being "shouty". The treble is somewhat veiled and I suspect this is due to that electrolytic cap in line with the tweeter. In room measurements show bass down to 38Hz which is ridiculous for a box that cannot physically accomodate a pair of my shoes. In room measurements also show the treble rolls of sharply at 19.5khz, which I am certain is a function of the cheap electrolytic cap used as a crossover.I am feeding them from a Fosi Audio ZD3 DAC and ZA3 amplifier. The DAC is running off a linear power supply and the two are linked in XLR mode. Primary source is a Dell laptop feeding the DAC via USB digital audio out at the highest available sample rate. This is a front end that is almost certainly way above what Roxel would expect for a £50 speaker but in this company they absolutely shine.It's quite astonishing that anybody can make, ship, and sell a speaker for £50 that sounds this good and make a single penny of profit. Absolutely remarkable. Give them a quality signal and they will step up to the task.There's no way I cannot recommend these speakers at the price. I would have been happy if I had paid 3x the cost.Disclaimer: This is a genuine independent review from a satisfied purchaser.

Cannot believe how well these sound for such a good price.I got mine from the warehouse but they arrived as good as new, I assume people will buy these not reading that they are passive and then return them - To be clear, these are not powered - they require an amplifier to work.They are solid as a brick and really heavy, beautiful build quality and look great on my bookshelf.The sound is brilliant - clear, good level of bass response and very balanced.Fantastic addition to my turntable and amp setup.

These are great sounding speakers for the size, they are after all 75watts each, which is a lot more than most of the passive speakers on Amazon at this price range. Unfortunately the speaker posts on the back of my first pair were going round like Dogual from the magic round about, they also had caps in place of where the banana plugs go so if you wanted to use them these would have to be removed, my subsequent 2 pairs never had these plugs and the posts were solid, I have a feeling they were seconds however as I got them before Christmas I thought I would give them a chance as Amazon extend the warranty so I have been using them, then all of a sudden the right speaker started flapping and it sounded like it had blown even though I never had them anywhere near full volume. This happened over a certain volume although even on low you could hear the difference between the two, I got some replacements and admittedly it’s taken me a while to change them over. Though now I have, the difference is night and day, also I should say that when I removed the front grill which protects the speakers from damage I noticed a load of what looked like polystyrene balls, they were 1 to 1 1/2 mm thick white balls and they were about ten of them, I rubbed them off the grill and the tweeter which is where it looked like they had come from although the flapping, sounded like it was coming from the main speaker. I’ll never know what happened to make them go like this apart from as mentioned I believe they were recons and I only turned them up after I had run them in, as I ran them in appropriately and never gave then any volume until they had been worn in properly so they should not have blown, so I was a bit gutted when the flapping started, I did give Roxel another chance though, again being the most powerful speakers on Amazon at this price point and I have since not been disappointed and was so happy with the sound I purchased another pair to use as rears. So I know Amazon says these are an item that are often sent back and I believe that if their were better QC as in making sure the 7mm bolts were done up properly on the back of the speaker posts, more people would keep them as I see them as a much better option than a lot of other similar speakers that are twice the price by so called audiophiles, or should I say sheep because as one says something then they all join in. Where as I am giving you a genuine review from someone who enjoys music and is a musician, plus I do not confess to being one of those so called specialists who really specialise in copying other peoples reviews and opinions. I say yes buy them if you have a decent enough amp to run them and for this I would recommend the FOSI BT30D, this way you have room for a passive sub and also either a powered sub or another set of powered speakers using the pre-out, and if your choice is the latter you cannot go wrong with the powered Roxel Active Bookshelf speakers. I say this as both of these sets of speakers, as in the Roxel speakers are true HiFi Speakers and are not near field technology that you have to have at a certain height and a certain angle and be sitting in the middle of a triangle to gain full benefit from. No they are not monitor speakers, the Roxel Speakers are true HiFi quality room fillers and would benefit from a decent amp and a bit of TLC from the manufacturers before shipping as in QC. I would personally recommend them and have them as my front and rear TV speakers and they sound amazing.

For the £50 I paid, these are great speakers. OK, they are not as detailed, and do compress the sound compared to my main speakers, but they cost over £350. For me, these are great in a 2nd room (I run them in my kitchen/dining room for music while I cook and eat), as part of an "introductory " separates system, such as for a teenager who looks at your HIFI with misty eyes, or for rear surround speakers. The front firing bass ports (none on the back) should also make these speakers less picky regarding placement. I wasn't going to, but I am going to run these speakers from a DAC to get that little extra detail out, and to open up the sound stage a little. To my shock, these £50 speakers deserve the little extra a DAC can bring to the table. If you want to spend more then I have always found JBL Control 1's to be great, but the law of diminishing returns defiantly applies, as they tend to cost twice the price, and I doubt you would get twice the enjoyment out of them.