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tSc - TSS DiPolar Surround Sound Speaker (pair) | 
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| Brand: The Speaker Company
Category: CE
Buy New: $169.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Color: Black Woodgrain
Shipping Weight (lbs): 26.5
Dimensions (in): 4.5 x 14.3 x 12.5
MPN: TSS
UPC: 891680002824
EAN: 0891680002824
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 5.25" Aluminum Woofer | | • | 1" HiCell High Efficiency Tweeter | | • | Sold as Pair | | • | 80 Hz - 20 kHz Frequency Range | | • | Sensitivity 89 db |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
If you're a movie fan looking for a high quality, low cost answer to your surround speaker needs, the TSS dipolar loudspeaker may well be the end of your quest. Compact yet efficient, the TSS features two HiCell tweeters and an aluminum cone midrange/woofer for transparency and detail. Complete with convenient wall-mounting hardware, the TSS is voiced to join other T-series speakers to create a seamless sonic illusion that will take you wherever the movie director wants you to be.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Fairly Good Speaker for the Price November 15, 2008
Build quality is solid and the finish is decent. You get a matte finish in white which can easily stain if your hands are oily and dirty.
The woofer's cone is constructed from reinforced aluminum and the suspension edge is made of butyl rubber. A combination like this would insure better longevity than the paper cone and foam edge materials which fatique over time from exposures of UV, light, changes in humidity, etc. The material of the tweeter's cone is questionable; it appears to be made of fatique-proned foam.
Performance is fairly good but not outstanding. There's a lack of bass response below 100Hz due to the small enclosure volume. I also found the box to be overly stuffed with damping material. This stuffing is supposed to extend the bass response to lower frequencies and to smooth out mid-bass peaks. But overstuffing can reverse this purpose. You can correct this problem by removing some of the material by 25-50%.
The speaker is in a dipole configuration where one of the tweeter's polarity is reversed so that the two tweeters are out-of-phase. This creates a null sound so that the audience cannot pinpoint the exact location of the rear speakers, and the in-phase sound would appear to come from along the walls where the tweeters are aimming. This is a good concept to envelope the audience in surround sound for 5.1 format. Make sure the tweeter that is in-phase is pointed towards the front (where the TV should be). There's a sticker behind the speaker that will indicate this.
A dipole configuration generally don't work well in a 7.1 format, which is what I have. The result is inconsistent treble response that varied depending on where the audience sits. There were multiple null areas that caused more psychoacoustic confusion than good. I was very unhappy and my heart almost broke because I did not want to return these speakers. For a 7.1 format, you're better off with a bipole instead (where both tweeters are in-phase).
Unfortunately these speakers don't have a toggle switch that lets you choose between dipole and bipole (Polk Audio and a few other brands have this switch). So, I took apart the out-of-phase tweeters and reversed their polarities, which changes the configuration from dipole to bipole. Now the 7.1 sounds a lot better.
Now that both tweeters are in-phase, a new problem: the treble response is too strong and didn't match the weak bass response of the woofer as described earlier. A preamp tone control setting of +4 for bass and -2 for treble corrected the problem.
I don't recommend taking the speaker apart and doing the modifications as I did. If you cannot undo the changes, it can void the warrantee and the 30-day return policy. Good luck.
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