MTX Audio MONITOR5i 5.25" 200W 2-Way Polypropylene Bookshelf Speakers | Wired Home Theater & Music Speaker System with RCA Input, Black

I picked up a vintage pair of MTX AAL 124s from St Vinnie's a while back. I was super suprised by how good they sounded with just some basic modifications. While trying to figure out the specs on the 124s I discovered that MTX was still in business building mostly car audio equipment, and to a much lesser extent home audio speakers. I took a gamble on these MONITOR5i kind of hoping they were built similarlly to my much larger AAL 124s. And wouldn't you now it...Pretty much the same box construction. Out of the box, these speakers sound good. But add $10 worth of Bonded Dacron dampening to the inside of the box (mind you keep that bass reflex port clear!) and they sound even better. Replace the janky input clips with $7 worth of 5 way binding posts (you can get a set of two, 49mm diameter here on Amazon), and we're really talking. Two simple teaks, and these speakers sound a perform as well as a pair 2-3x their price. I have them paired up with a AIYIMA T9, and they sound great!

Amazing for solid bass from a modest sized 5 1/2 inch main speaker that does not muddy up the super clear mid range with a wonderful natural sounding high frequency tweeter. Ultra cheap price with what one should experience as being a very expensive "type" premium performance. These are definitely top performing compact bookshelf speakers and should be capable of favorable audio comparison to similar sized bookshelf speakers costing up to 6 times more. One of my top 10 all time bargain audio equipment purchases. Excited to be a new proud owner.

We all want great sound but let's face it we also want a good value. I use these for rear surrounds on a 5.1 setup including a Denon receiver, JBL HLS center,JBL 3 way towers and a Polk sub. I am very happy with my purchase I can hear a Lot more detail with these compared to my old surrounds. They have good bass and crisp highs. You could compose a decent surround system using 4 of these with a decent sub and a Good center. I think that they are a good value and I would highly recommend them to a friend.

this is great speakers but these tweeters loudness is soo low they can’t be heard so this means the MTX MONITOR5i tweeters is a placebo so all the treble sound from this MTX MONITOR5i is coming directly from the 5 inch woofer speakers entirely also the max frequency response of this MTX MONITOR5i is 103Hz to 20kHz

I'm using these on an electronic organ to get the sound close to the console. The main speakers are at the other end of the church. I have 4 of these little speakers (I needed 4 channels) where I can hear the organ without drowning out the congregation.

I have been in the audio business for over 30 years and have tested many speakers and amps. I have heard speakers that cost way more then these and I must say these MTX are amazing. These have great sound, powerful deep bass and clear highs. They have a great frequency response too. They handle my 120 watt RMS per channel Kenwood amp with ease. Not sure about the one & two star reviews, maybe these people need a more powerful amp with an EQ, not a 20 watt class D amp. MTX makes great quality speakers and for less then $100 dollars it’s a no brainer !!!

At first I was concerned because they were light weight, but they had a nice looking finish and grill. Bought as an inexpensive compliment to the ridiculously make-shift system I put together in my shop/garage. It consists of old pieces of equipment nothing remotely matching. So I thought for so little money these might work as a somewhat near field monitor, at least when I'm at my work desk. First impressions hooked up to a cheap class D no frills(used to add blue tooth on the cheap) amp was not good, like at all. But I thought I would let them break in as the woofer is very stiff, the bass went from shallow into distorted while the highs were ridiculously harsh. I started to think I would just use them as stand alone mid-tweeters. (I had used this small class D amp to power several types of speakers with various results, but never one that sounded like this) typically the smaller, the better. But I have to say when I hooked them up to either other older class A/B amps from an old Harmon/Kardon to an old cheap Pyle it was night and day! They were slightly bright, but full and just much much better sounding everywhere.

They sound great!! Actually you can hear bass without a sub which is rare in today's world. I don't need a sub for a small bedroom. That's for sure!! I have these hooked to a stereo amp (Mini Bluetooth Power Amplifier, FisherMo Wireless Streaming Digital Class D 4 Channel Hi-Fi Amplifiers Audio Stereo Music USB SD Player FM Radio Receiver for Cell Phone PC TV Car) I bought from Amazon. They sound better than ALL I have heard at 3x the cost for one bookshelf speaker. JBL, Klipsch, Dayton Audio, Sony and others!! I did order a sub but I will use it in another room because these sound great alone!! At the time when I purchased these, they were $51 a pair. Now I see they have gone up, but I would still buy them!! Update, I like them SO MUCH that I just ordered a 2nd pair!!!

Son pequeñas, en la foto parecen mas grandes, pero se escuchan bastante bien, bastante potencia con un amplificador de 50w a 4ohm, tienen graves bastante decentes para el tamaño, si las vas a usar para una habitacion no mañor a 4x4x2.5m van excelentes. Si puedes complementar con un sub, para iniciar con audio de calidad no se me ocurren otras mejores.

Se escuchan bien, se ven bien de acuerdo al precio el único inconveniente que les encuentro es que me mandaron una nueva y una usada con raspaduras en la tela que las protege me imagino que es para que compres otras y tengas un par nuevo y uno de segunda.