triangle - BOREA BR02 Hi-Fi Bookshelf Speakers - Power handling 80W - Output 89 dB/W/m - Versatile Music and Home Cinema - 176 x 310 x 274 mm - Light Oak (Pair)

I've been a fan of Triangle for a while, but normally their offerings came at a much higher price tag. The new Borea line is disrupting the "entry/mid-level hifi" market segment providing some incredible quality at this price point. There is a very airy sound, which is something I like about the silk dome tweeter and natural paper woofer cones. These speakers do a great job of putting you 'inside' of the music. The sound stage is incredible for 2 5" bookshelf speakers, I've owned floor standers that could not provide this dimension of sound stage in the past! Truly impressive. The quality of the enclosure/finish is top-notch as well. The white vinyl wrap with the black driver trim/phase plugs and white paper cones really give this speaker a modern look that was easy to sell my wife on. Overall, I think for the price this is a solid bookshelf speaker for home theater use. For a true upgrade to this you would easily spend double the price or more. Great value proposition here from Triangle and I am excited to see what will happen when they refresh this product line.

My favorite bookshelf speakers so far. I have many budget bookshelf speakers, powered and passive, but none of them sound as good to me as the br02's. Piano sounds more like a piano and so on and so forth. I have the walnut ones and I think they look great without the grills. Set up properly they sound great. Not fatiguing to listen to like most budget minded speakers. I do prefer them with my powered subwoofer. I can listen to a live concert recording and get thru the entire show without fatigue. Excellent sound stage and imaging. They respond to better gear tremendously. More so than any other budget speaker in my collection. They shine on speaker stands atleast 2 meters apart towed in away from the walls. Not earth shattering bass, but good accurate bass. The subwoofer takes care of 60hz and bellow. I do want to upgrade the components in the crossovers to see just how much these speakers will improve. After all no budget speaker has good crossovers stock. Not so much change the values of the crossover components like Danny does, just greatly improve them. Will double the price of these speakers, but people who have done it to these br02's say it was worth the effort. Even my multi thousand dollar floor standing speakers sound better with better crossover components.

I have previous model Focals and Triangle speakers. I received an open box speaker and thought to give it a try. When I first hooked it up it was a wow moment. These do play like a larger speaker but after continued listening I felt the tone was off just a bit and these are definitely a bit veiled in comparisons which is expected at their price point. The Borea 2 sound nice enough but I think the older Color series in gloss finish and the more budget appearing Plaisir Zetas are better performers. I have the Plaisir Zetas and they give more detail and resolution IMO plus a more musical, ethereal sound for music and movies. If you can find these mentioned speakers used for a fair price buy them. There's something about todays' budget speakers that they appear to show competence in a particular area or two but falter in other ways. Tried many and felt this way about them. Can't fault Triangle for the effort in the Borea series. How should I rate it? A 3 should reflect average, 4 above average and 5 representing competence for the price point. I wouldn't give the Borea 2 a three or a five. For the sale price of 349 or lower, a four for value. Overall SQ, a 3.5 as they do sound a bit bigger. Yes, these do have a noticeable midbass hump. Decent sensitivity counts. But the tone seems off a bit as well as having less detail and resolution, as many others display at lower price points. Somewhat exciting sound at times, not laid back. There are worse choices and others give a more competent performance in other areas and less so in others. For the discounted price point, it approaches four out of five. What's a five at their price point? Not too sure. Alot of budget options with alot of flavors today, better in some ways, worse in others. Sending these back because they can't outperform what I have now and it is a budget speaker. Still, the Borea 2 is a nice enough budget speaker. I repeat, a budget speaker offering decent performance, above average in sounding like a larger standmount speaker in comparison to others. That's my take.

BR02 is a pair of serious HIFI speakers, smooth mid-range, warm bass, clear treble extension. The sound quality is much better than my expectations, The size perfectly fits my IKEA shelf. Couldn’t love this beauty anymore. Pros: - Very neutral sound signature, no color added to vocal - A bit warm at low-mid range, good quality for music listening - 5' woofer, 12" tall, but sounds like floor standing speakers, not thin at all, impressive! - Nice modern looking, fit my IKEA shelf very well - Easy driving, works with my Denon S950H receiver flawlessly Cons: - No complain at all, the bass can fill the room at reasonable volume More: Compare with this French beauty, the overrated Sony CS5 sounds colored and small

Forget the overpriced DACs, Cables and Magic Crystals! This *THIS* is what you should spend your money on and then pair them up with a nice solid amp. Done. They don't require exotic components to tease out the sound or "fix" anything. They sound excellent at low volume as well as high volume (many speakers can't achieve this). They image off-axis like a good speaker should with little to no loss of quality. Walk into another room and you can still hear rich detailed sound. Build quality is good but the vinyl does seem to scratch easy so be careful. Triangle has a new fan. I can only imagine what their high end speakers sound like.

I wont go into to much detail, but imagine this, Music, Gaming and TV that's sound 100% better than any sound bar under £1000. The mids are crisp and precise, the bass drop to 51Hz, very deep for a speaker of this size, and the overall sound stage feels big. Centre image is perfect and the off access sound is outstanding. I doesn't matter where your sitting, these awesome little speakers sound incredible in any room you have and you can be walking around and not hear any difference in the sound. I have two sets of these speakers they are that good. You can sit right next to them or be 12 feet away. I makes no difference at all, and they dont care what electronics you pair the to. These were valued at £499.99 last year, if you pay less than that now, its a bargain. I cant recommend these enough, there better than the bigger version the BRO3 everywhere except bass. Highly recommended 👌

Nice speakers for desktop use, nearfield in a small room 15m², they play with aa NAD C316Bee amp and a SMSL D6S dac. The sound is great, big sound stage, great sound image, full of dynamics, clarity is very ok and bass is deep enough for me who I don't want much kick punch. Awesome midrange and deep bass, nothing to complain special in nearfield but ... ok the highs aren't so much fidelity but they are budget bookshelf's, don't wait the performance of the next level speakers (>500€). Τhis being said I have to emphasize something very important, voices (vocals) are amazing, women or men singers are very realistic and clear, was tremendous surprise!!!

Pour le prix triangle nous fournit du bon matériel le son est ok sans être vraiment incroyable mais pour leurs taille et leurs prix c'est vraiment un bon produit. Les finitions sont exemplaires

Casse semplicemente fantastiche Le ho scelte per due requisiti essenziali che sono l'alta sensibilità per via dell'utilizzo con un amplificatore di bassa potenza, e la qualità del suono in quanto stavo cercando anche le massime prestazioni in fatto di qualità ad un prezzo ragionevole e devo dire che hanno addirittura superato le mie aspettative. Oltre a ciò sono anche molto belle da vedere e pratiche con la copertura magnetica. Il mio amplificatore è da 20 watt ma di qualità alta e queste casse sono perfette. Riescono tranquillamente a riempire tutta la casa di musica. Nella foto sono a fianco a quelle di uno stereo Sony compatto un po' datato.

Que buen par de bocinas, las he probado con varios integrados y tiene mucha facilidad para crear sinergia, particularmente me gusto con NAD y con Marantz. Bajos claros y suficientes para mi. Ampliamente recomendable para un espacio pequeño. En resumen, ME GUSTA: a) su facilidad para hacer sinergia con diferentes integrados, conectalo a uno decente y disfrutaras tu música; b) la música no muy bien grabada se escucha mejor con estos altavoces; c) los postes de unión se notan de mejor construcción que otras marcas, d) bajos controlados suficientes para mi que escucho a bajo volumen, e) las rejillas tienen un imán que las mantienen pegadas con fuerza al bafle, no se caen como con otras. NO ME GUSTA: a) siendo muy exigente, el vinilo que los viste, pero es aceptable por el precio. Actualización. Muy buena sinergia con PM6007 de Marantz. Suficiente para que este combo se quede en mi habitación por varios años.