I bought these speaker more then 1 year ago, I must say that I've been really pleased with my purchase, the kind of music I listen to is very bass driven, mainly electronic music with loads of sounds and deep pumping baseline, before deciding to buy the speakers I went to a shop to listen to them and was quite impressed, I then decided to buy them and never looked back, the price was decent, the style is great, and the sound is very good.

Firstly I'm impressed by the looking of these speakers, really quite nice! After trying the sound, it's not bad too, high/low pitch, bass all good, I especially love the way to turn it load, very beating. Then I decided to take it! Basically quite worth the money!

had these Acoustic Solutions AV120 speakers for six years and just like new. i paid 50 pounds from comet. They still are taking a pounding from my drum and bass collection - very cheap but well built great sound.

If you get the mk1s never let them go it will be your biggest regret I now have the mk2s but the mk1s are the best to have never sell them please don't do it i did and i regret it a lot.

I have had a pair of these AV120 speakers for about 6 years. I still have them! Don't get me wrong my home cinema kit isn't brilliant, I have a Sherwood amp and Celestion surrounds. These speakers kick some butt for the dosh. I have a reasonable sized lounge: 15 ft square, unless you want to annoy the neighbours I don't think you need a sub with these. The bass is loud and sounds good across wood flooring. I would recommend these to any student or lower budgeted sound listener.

Go on, buy some!

If you are skint , look no further. They are medium efficiency, so 30 watt per channel amps are minimum required to be able to crank up the volume without clipping.
Use a good front end and amp however and they perform way beyond the price on most music. Used this way they are a good choice for someone who has bought a high quality CD player, a good turntable ( yes vinyl still lives), with a mid to high end amp and run out of money. These will do fine until better speakers can be afforded.
Just like the Hi-Fi specialist advice that in the 80's paired a £600+ turntable tonearm, and cartridge a £400 amp with a £70 set of speakers, good advice that still holds true.
Speakers cannot reproduce what is not there, so the better the source the better the sound. This applies whatever the cost of the speakers. Put expensive speakers with a mediocre amp and front end big disappointment.

I bought mine 3 years ago and have used them with a Rotel 830 mk 2 and a Sony XE570 CD when I needed new bass drivers for some Bose 301's.
They are now driven by a Cambridge Azur 640C CD and a Valve Amp. They sound great with tight bass and clean and open mid/top, and will do while I save up for some better speakers.

When I saw these Acoustic Solutions AV120 stereo speakers over a year and a half ago for £50 in Currys they immediately caught my eye, mainly because I didn't think they would sell floorstanders in Currys!

I thought I'd give them a go anyway, I figured even if they were rubbish it's not too much money to loose out on.

To my amazement when I got them home and hooked them up to my amp (which was then a Sony TAFE 570) they really surprised me. The bass was punchy and loud, perfectly complimented by the crisp treble from the powerful tweeters.

Since then I have had 2 amps (Cambridge Audio Azur 540c & Technics SUV500) The Cambridge made them sound even clearer but because of the CAP5 protection system I could never really turn it up as loud as I wanted without the temperature sensor cutting in.

The Technics I have now is perfect and with a second set of speaker outputs I am tempted to buy 2 more and hooking them up to that.

The sound you want is basically the sound you get. If I want punchy bass then I just set the amp to play direct and slap up the volume or for the resonating bass just adjust the frequency controls and the speakers respond perfectly at low or high volumes. (I can turn my amp up to 3/4 without distortion and believe me this is pretty loud)

I can hear what other reviewers are talking about with the mid-range as sometimes you loose a bit but this is only an issue for some kinds of music and it's not too much of a problem, I think some other AS speakers have a tweeter bass driver and mid-range driver?

The Acoustic Solutions AV120 Stereo speakers perform well in the high and middle ranges, but the base is confused, with some irritating resonances and I am sure develops marked non-linearities at higher volumes. Never really creates a convincing base image. OK for some classical music but lousy for indie pop.

Yes there are better out there, but not for this money, the Acoustic Solutions AV120 are £49.99 at currys so I took a chance, ended up £39.99 at the check out.
Got them home hooked them up to a Dennon DCD 825 CD
Musical Fidelity Elektra E11 amp with a pair of Audio Henly Interconneccts, I know this is 4-5 year old kit, All I can say is after running in, is they kept up with Female Vocals, Said bring it on to Lenny Kravits, and kept up with Hard house& Psy Trance, Have not checked them out on any clasical, but from what I have had time to listen to so far, I expect to be pleased.