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

Fabulous sound that fills the room. Great speakers.

The sound is really sterling. This is my second pair. I returned the first because white doesnt sit well with my array of speakers. Still Im thrilled everytime I listen to my Triangle Borea BR03--and Ive auditioned a number of speakers recently, including the KEF LS50 Meta, before I picked these speakers as my choice. Triangle really nailed it.

Having listened to ELAC UB52, JBL 530, KEF Q150, these stand out as my favorite. I would be willing to recommend these without hesitation to anyone in the market for bookshelf speakers in this price range. I admit the KEFs and JBLs are great alternatives, and I imagine the KEF Q350 would match or exceed the triangles, but likely at a higher cost. Would not recommend the ELACs, which didn’t make sense to me and didn’t sound true to the music.

Out of the box....these speakers are not only alluring and modern....but they sound great out of the box....no break in time required...full bass...separation of instruments...you hear the details of the recording....over deliver for the price...these are now my favorite speakers...i have klipsch...b&w....and buchardts...I am an audio geek...pull the trigger on these....you will not be disappointed but amazed......a true French gem!!!

I have been a fan of home audio for decades and so sound of my systems are quite important with a dedicated system in virtually every room of my house. I wanted to upgrade the speakers in the living room which is a fairly low-usage environment although recently we have been using it more for entertainment and relaxation. I have a dedicated Mediaroom with a fairly high-end theater system so I have that as my standard. These BRO3 (yes bro 3) speakers blew me away, a huge upgrade over the name brand towers they replaced, brilliant highs, warm forward midrange and realistic but not overpowering bass is the sound signature. Coupled with a moderate but tight/fast sub they are amazing and I highly recommend them.

Sounds great and looks good. Not the smallest bookshelf speakers but a nice addition to any sound system.

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!

Great bookshelf speakers that sound amazing. I have these paired with an IOTAVX SA3 integrated amp. Room is about 12x12 and they have no issue filling the room with sound. They sound great, very well balanced, the trebles arent over accentuated and bright. Very well balanced. I wish they had a bit more staging, better imaging/detail, and transparency, but at this price point they are very fun to listen to and Ive spent more time just listening. I will be keeping these for some time, even if I do upgrade to a higher $$ loudspeaker. ***I did add a separate amped sub to fill out the lower bass frequencies, but that is somewhat to be expected with bookshelf speakers. That being said, I used them for a month without a sub and they were still very enjoyable. While these arent the speakers for everyone, Id gamble that the vast majority of folks will enjoy this speaker.

I purchased these speakers based on a review in a national publication. I think theyre absolutely incredible! I listen mostly to jazz and 60s rock. With these speakers, I hear details on many recordings that Ive never noticed before. I am playing CDs, Apple lossless streaming and Vinyl through these speakers. I use a Dragonfly audioquest black for the streaming. My amp is a Cambridge Audio AXA35--nothing fancy, but it certainly gets the job done! I have never, repeat never, heard speakers at this price point sound so good. Highly recommended.

This is not like a monitor, meaning, it will not make a terrible recording, sound like a terrible recording. I used it to play In Rock album by Deep Purple Mk.2, and Jesus Christ, I have never heard that terribly produced album with such clarity and detail. These are ROCK AND ROLL speakers if Ive ever heard one! It destroys anything from Rock, Metal, Jazz, Blues, it is simply phenomenal with music that has instruments and very dynamic sounds being produced. Now for a review of the drivers: It is a standard two-way driver, a one inch tweeter and a 6 inch woofer, tweeter is aluminum, woofer is paper, which is a nice bonus, gives it great bass and fuller sound, top to bottom. The treble is very slightly recessed and lacks the resolution of a true monitor, but if you are looking for a fun desktop bookshelf or a nice stereo bookshelf, you wont be able to tell the difference... Actually, you would probably prefer it, like I do. I dont need the treble shouting at me and piercing me ears, instead, this speakers treble is warm and smooth and still had good resolution, its still full HD, maybe not 4k UHD like a monitor, but most people dont need that. The mids, oh boy the mids, they are pretty much perfection for this price range, you wont find much better for the price, even up to 1000, unless you find a monitor that is mid forward. These speakers are very slightly mid-forward, this really helps bring clarity, imaging and soundstage to the midrange and sound reproduction of instruments. The bass is incredible, due to the paper woofer, you will get very good low end, and clean low-mids. I just love this speaker and I think the only upgrade to it for a reasonable price is the Buchardt S300. But there is one major downside to it... Although it has great French engineering, it is very unreliable build quality due to China. One of the corners on mines, looks like it is not attached very well, exposing the wood cabinet very slightly. Its not a deal breaker, but for $550, they could have done way better. I would have paid $100 extra if it came in a nice and sturdy black gloss, which is much better material and more reliable. I may get the S300 one day, but I have a very tiny room and even now I dont get the full experience from the BR03.