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

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!

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.

Amazing soundstage! Incredible detailed speaker. Solid bracing. Perfect speakers for all music genres. Getting another pair for my folks for Christmas!

Comparada con las bocinas que usamos los pobres, esta es simplemente una de las mejores, mejor que Polk Audio, mejor que Boston Acoustic, mejor que otras marcas que he utilizado en pareja de bocinas de estantes por debajo de los 800 dólares. Mi parecer sobre el mercado de bocinas sobre el precio de los 1000 dólares, es que tienen muy poco que aportar, aparte del estatus de tener algo caro que otros no pueden tener. Es como la comparación entre un Toyota Camry y un Mercedes Benz, simplemente el estatus de quien lo usa, pero la usabilidad diaria para transporte de un ser humano común, ambos son iguales. La calidad del sonido de estas bocinas es genial, muy detallado y los bajos hay que decir que son potentes y ajustados, ayudados por la versatilidad de que tienen el puerto de refuerzo de bajos por delante y lo tienen doble. La mayoría de la gente de este post que habla tan bien de este par de bocinas, no puede estar equivocada, valen cada centavo por ellas.

I auditioned a pair of BRO3’s for a couple of weeks and I wasn’t impressed with their sound. They’re not a bad pair of speakers, but they’re not a great pair of speakers, either. Ultimately I paid a bit more for a pair of Elac UB52’s and I couldn’t be happier with their performance at roughly the same price point. The UB52’s offer stunning mid/high resolution without sounding metallic or shouty like the BRO3’s. The Triangle’s can sound veiled at the expense of midrange detail. They’re a weirdly inconsistent speaker… In addition to their superior detail retrieval, the UB52’s have an incredible ability to soundstage from all corners of your listening space. It’s almost as if sound emanates from 3-4 speakers instead of two. long story short: If you’re willing to pay an extra $100-$150, you can find a few other options that offer FAR MORE detail and sophistication.

I was worried when I first got these that I would need a subwoofer, but with proper placement you dont need a thing! Just hook these bad boys up to your amplifier, sit in the middle of them and enjoy! Incredible sound staging for these size speakers, great detail and not lacking anywhere that I can find! They also look fantastic without the grilles on! Well worth your money if you want something sleek looking and with a fantastic audio quality. Tested on multiple amps and all ranges of volumes, they have yet to fail me in any way. If youre unsure, try them out. Return them if you dont like them, but Im sure you wont! Whether or not you believe burn in ( I dont ) I found that with multiple listening sessions on these guys gave my ears plenty of time to adjust to the treble forward sound. These are extremely detailed and work well with all types of music, from classic to modern rap, these handle it all with ease all while looking great!

Evaluated Triangle BR03’s against KEF Q150’s, used ELAC Uni-fi slim 5. Each speaker had its strengths and weaknesses - to me, the BR03’s had the most balanced and well-rounded sound. Since I was pairing the speakers with an inexpensive class D, integrated amp, I was concerned that the Aiyima T9 could not drive the ELAC. The Triangles are simple to drive and sounded surprisingly transparent and clear without the sharpness, treble forwardness of other speakers. Additionally, they make even poor recordings sound compelling. Highly recommend.

Spotted the black cabinet versions on sale last month. Adorama on Amazon is the real deal! Very pleased with the pair of Triangle BR02s I already had. I didnt need another pair of bookshelf speakers, but thought I could return them if they didnt sound any better than their smaller siblings. Set them up in the same room/position as the BR02s for comparison without any run in. At first they sounded thinner than the BR02s. However, within 2 hours the BR03s started to sound WAY better than the BR02s to my ears. More detail, definition, bass, bigger soundstage etc. I realize much of any speakers performance has to do with room size, furnishings, placement yada, yada, yada. However, in my 16 x 23 main listening area the front ported 6 1/2 woofer BR03s sounded more in control of the situation than the smaller rear ported 5 1/4 woofer BR02s. They do sound very similar. However, the BR03s are more to my liking in a larger room. I moved the BR02s to a secondary system in a 12 x 13 room more suitable for their capabilities. The BR03s are a great sounding and excellent value when on sale for $300 or less. Try them out. Youve nothing to loose! February 25, 2023 Update - I A/Bd the front ported BR03s directly with my long time favorite sealed enclosure NHT SuperOne 2.1s in the same room position on 24 stands. Each design features a 6.5 paper midwoofer and 1 fabric/silk dome tweeter set in a shallow waveguide. The presentations are REMARKABLY similar. Tough call to say which one sounds better than the other. They both sound good to my ears. BR03s seem to be more efficient if youre concerned about that. The NHTs bass extension does seem slightly smoother and deeper but a bit quieter than the more abrupt bass drop off of the ported BR03s. A tough choice between two high value speakers.

The Triangle Br03 are incredibly good speakers for the money. The highs and lows fill the room such detail and sound staging is very good. The quality of the speaker is very good as well. The only thing I can hope for is that they last for many years.

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.