triangle Borea BR03 Hi-Fi Bookshelf Speakers (Black Ash, Pair)

Beautiful , reasonably priced.

Very good

Fabulous speakers. Combined with Rotel A12 Integrated amp, I have been nothing short of astounded at the angel trumpets I am hearing. Seems to shine on any type of music. Exceptionally smooth and transparent. Im over the moon frankly

I am running Tidal through a Topping DX7 Pro DAC through my 300B Tube Amp and into these. All I can say is, HOLY S***! I sold a pair of RP-600Ms last week and had my eye on these. Dont get me wrong. The 600Ms were nice. Just a little shy on the bass. A lot of online reviewers suggest a sub with these as well. Not needed. Not in the least. They are dual ported on the front and you can hear it. This amp is pushing maybe 5 clean watts per channel and sitting 6 feet away I dont need the volume past 9 oclock. The BR03s are 90 dB sensitive. Everything is crisp, clear, and probably as good as you can get for under $1k / pair. Maybe a bit more. Oh, and, they are gorgeous! At least the Light Oak model is.

Very pleased with the sound quality of these speakers when driven by my Marantz.

After reading countless reviews and watching y/tube videos praising these speakers I bought these from adorama over b/friday. They sound good but nowhere as good as I was led to believe. They image fairly well and Im sure most people will find them to be adequate, but they just didnt do it for me. I found them lacking in weight in their sound signature and sounding hallow. I have the Klipsch RP600Ms and the Studio 530s and after A/Bing both, preferred them both over the BRO3s. In another room I have the Polk RTIA3 and though the BRO3s offer a pleasing sounding high end, in the end the lack of bass response made me gravitate toward the Polks. So maybe Z was right after all. Theres something not quite right about these speakers. Either a defect or something that only some people experience because it seems a majority of folks seem to love the BRO3s. In my case, I was happy to bear the cost of return shipping to send these back. For me to keep them, they would have to be discernibly better than what I have...and they were not.

I’ve had these for over two weeks now and they seem to be getting better as time goes on. My previous bookshelf speakers were Kef Q100’s, which were nice but I needed something better. After doing some research I settled on these, without being able to listen to them first (it was a gamble, but with the 30 day return I thought I’d give them a try). First thing I noticed was the bass/midrange is so much more than the Kef’s. I do have a subwoofer, but to tell the truth I really don’t need it for music. One thing I was concerned about was that some reviews thought it might be to “bright” for some, at first when I listened them I was having a tough time not hearing much treble, but as I’ve had more time with then the sound is coming through balance and the treble comes through when it’s suppose to. The soundstage is great! It sounds like a concert going on right in your room. The main vocals is front and center, backup singing has its place depending on the song, and the instruments come through and compliment the vocals. One of my go to songs for instrumental is Michael Hedges’ Aerial Boundaries, it sounds amazing. Just one guy play a guitar, an amazing guy RIP, and it sounds great. One other thing of note is you will begin to hear things you never noticed before in some songs, or movies for that matter. My primary speakers are ESS AMT 1b, they’re old but I wouldn’t trade them for anything. The reason I bring that up is I think when you’re use to a curtain sound from speakers when you listen to new one’s they sound odd at first because you have expectations, however these Triangle Borea BR03 offer great sound at an amazing price. If you want some bookshelf speakers that sound better than some that cost twice as much these should be high on your list. Happy listening.

I’ve always been a music fan….But, I just recently began the journey of building a home system. After months of research and educating myself, I chose the Triangle Borea BR03. I was looking at Klipsch, Polk, Dali and Paradigm. I chose these for the following reasons: Size of my listening room Front Bass Port Price Reviews And my gut. Lol Man, I am super glad I pulled the trigger on these. After a 5 hour break-in playlist, these are by far the best sounding, wide-range listening speakers I’ve ever heard. They are being pushed by a Denon AVR760H.

I own pairs of each of these: ELAC Uni-Fi UB5 Klipsch RP-600M ELAC Debut B6.2 ELAC Debut B6 Theyre all AMAZING speakers that sound fabulous at twice, three times, and even five times their price tags. None of them is anything less than superlative. Indeed, reviewers have run out of superlatives to bestow on all of them. The original Debut B6 is the all-time, possibly never to be dethroned, bang-for-the-buck audiophile speakers. If you dont have at least one pair of them, you havent lived, my friend! For $279, they simply turned Hi-Fi upside down, utterly reshuffling peoples expectations for affordable speakers. They were easygoing. Laid back. Powerful in the lower octaves. They make every recording sound great regardless of source material or amplifier. Im still speechless at what they did for THAT kind of money. It made EVERY other speaker company up their game. Dramatically. We owe a LOT to those speakers. The B6.2 had a bit more grown up sound. Simple as that. Lots of goodness there, and a bit more classy. And easier to put closer to the front wall because of the front port. The Uni-Fi UB5 brought affordable Hi-Fi to a whole nother level again. A true 3-way speaker with a coherence and holographic soundstage that leaves you breathless. Just make sure you have a GOOD, powerful, high-current amp to drive them, as theyre not sensitive, and theyre 4 ohm speakers on top of that. Theyre a glass of Châteauneuf-du- Pape, for ones who appreciate perfection and class. They never put a foot wrong. They point their pinkies. Theyre accurate. They have a pinpoint accuracy in the soundstage. But it takes a LOT of clean power to get them to drop the classy act and just light the place up, which theyll do if you ask nicely. And give them gifts. Known as high-wattage amplification. You dont get the most beautiful date to settle for beer and McDonalds, nor can you feed that to these speakers and get away with it. Bring out the Porsche, the medium rare filet mignon, and a Vega Sicilia 1989, and youre golden. (You also get rewarded with ludicrously low, detailed, and powerful bass.) The RP-600M killed all the preconceived notions that horn speakers are shouty and harsh. Good GRIEF, did they ever! And they did it with ANY amplifier. And they are always ready to have FUN. So engaging, refined, and...LOUD. Not very much bass, but did I mention that theyre fun? Id say theyre a really fine tequila. No salt or lime (or courage) needed. Plenty of flavor. Very effective. Lovely to sip in small amounts. But its ALWAYS ready to join you for five more shots, get crazy, trash the hotel room, and jump from the balcony into the pool WHENEVER you say the word. (In an experiment, I ran just the pair of them in my theater room, which is 35x15 feet. I set them on top of my main towers, told nobody that it was ONLY them playing, and they practically flexed the windows with output. Nobody believed me when I told them that I was only running a pair of bookshelves, until they walked over to them. Stunning. Ludicrous. FUN.) Enter the Triangle BR03. Put simply, its basically ALL of the best attributes of the others, but with little no none of the drawbacks. It makes recordings bring you to tears if theyre great, but doesnt punish you for bad recordings. Its presentation of the soundstage is in front of the speakers rather than at or behind them (but not as far forward as the Klipsch), and startlingly real. Its almost creepy. Like you can reach out and touch it-kind of realism. Not quiiiiite as shockingly real as the ELAC UB5, but close enough. Its got class in spades, AND it can party like a rock star. It can play as loud as you want, and it doesnt demand fancy components. There are 2 caveats. To wit: 1) A new pair of loafers needs to soften and mold to your feet. The engine on a new Audi RS7 needs the right number of revs for the right period of time, in order to have all the moving parts get bedded in and seated in their permanent operational positions. A new house needs furniture, beds, and pictures on the walls (and time) for it to feel like home. These arent imaginary concepts. These arent magical, esoteric fairy tales. These are facts. The same is true of the moving parts of a speaker. Trying to reduce it to mere test numbers on a graph doesnt measure what your ears tell you. So, back to the BR03. Right out of the box, they are BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT, and the bass is merely good. This is not only fine; its also as normal as can be. Put on some good source material with plenty of vocals and cymbals for the mids and highs, crank it up, and give them 2 or 3 hours of a good workout. No, you dont need 100 hours. Yes, theyll continue to sound better, warmer, fuller, and less brassy the longer you play them, but 2 or 3 hours of loud-ish vocals and percussion will get them to open up to where you can get the proper idea of how these sound. This brings the brightness down to a still airy, but revealing and beautiful level...and it sends the bass into the stratosphere. I turn off my subs for music listening, and I had to go check the power switches on my subs. TWICE. Its ludicrous what these speakers can do down low. Youll be dumbstruck. That, or youll laugh like a right bloody idiot. Or both. For the woofers, instead of playing bass-heavy music that I find disgusting and repugnant, I skipped the middle man, and I dialed up a test tone of 25 Hz, turned the volume DOWN, then slowly adjusted it to where the woofer cone was giving me about 8-10mm of excursion, and MOST CERTAINLY NOT bottoming out nor making ANY type of untoward noise. I did this five times, at one minute each time. Again: DO NOT do this at high volumes. The result? Ooooooooh MAN. So very, VERY sweet. And POWERFUL. So DO NOT judge them on the very first notes that come out of them. Even just half an hour makes a difference. The first full week you have them, theyll transform from great to AMAZING. 2) Play with the placement. If you do it correctly, youll have a perfect sweet spot that spans the entire sofa (not just the middle seat), and the best part is that THE SPEAKERS WILL COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR. You wont be able to discern ANY sound coming from either of them. Ill tell you how I achieved that. Ive got two wonderful children, so I HAD TO put them on actual bookshelves, right up against the front wall. Everybody will tell you that this is the wrong place to put your speakers. And they would be right. Generally speaking, your speakers are at the front of the soundstage and the front wall is the back of it. Spatially, thats how it sounds. In a perfect world, you should have these on stands, roughly 2 to 3 feet out from the wall. But I couldnt do that. Also, the bass gets radically stronger the closer they are to the front wall. These are so bass-rich, it might be too much for some people. You can fix that with a little bit of EQ. I myself dont mind at all. The key to this all...is toe-in. I learned from The Legend himself, Mr. John Strohbeen (and from New Record Day on YouTube, which has a speaker placement and soundstage tutorial that is amazing) that you can make a HUGE, wide sweet spot where the speakers vanish and all you hear is music happening in your room...with some radical amounts of toe-in angle. So Ill make this quick and easy: put your speakers 9-12 feet apart, and angle them in at 45 degrees. Yes. You read that correctly: 45 degrees. First, try your speakers firing straight out into the room. Theyll sound great, but the sweet spot will be in only one seating position, and youll likely still hear sound coming from the speakers. But angle them in at 45 degrees, and hold on to your hat, because itll be blown off. Along with your brain. So buy a pair. Let them get a little exercise. Warm them up, so to speak. Then set them up correctly, put on Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat or Lyle Lovett Joshua Judges Ruth, and be amazed. Believe the hype. Today, in September of 2020, these are the best affordable speakers on the market. p.s. If you want the single best system tweak I (or my favorite reviewers) have EVER found, get a vacuum tube preamp. But not just any. Get the iFi iTube 2. Its a REAL Single-Ended Triode (SET) AND a Class A Push-Pull preamp (and classic Class A) tube preamp, all in one housing. For $399. Youll never again be without it after youve tried it. Get $10,000 dollar sound out of your existing amplifier. Genius. Hope this helps!

I love these speakers. Theses speakers sound great ! Great separation, the instruments never sound muddled. Nice clarity. The mid range is prominent but does not get in the way or overpower, it enhances the listening experience. The treble is smooth, never bright. I am not a bass head and for me the bass is nice, its strong but not over powering. the bass, treble and mid range all blend evenly but each is distinct. I dont think you could find a better sounding or more enjoyable speaker to listen to for $549.00. Adorama shipped them very quickly. I ordered them late on Thursday and they were delivered on Monday morning. Great service. Excellent speakers.