These speakers are a joy. I use them in my living room. Just put on some good music (jazz or classical) crank them up and smile!

These are not the best powered speakers I've heard, but definitely the best I've heard around $500. When on sale these should be a no brainer for a smaller room or desktop. It has smooth highs, full midrange and punchy bass.

These are forgiving speakers; bad source material won't sound terrible and great recordings will not sound fantastic. Everything I've listened to sounds good.

I also bought the Kanto Tuk to compare head to head. Joe N Tell called these "mini Tuk." That's a good moniker. As one would expect, the Kanto, at 3x the cost is the Tuk is the better speaker in virtually every respect, but the MM-5R are no slouch. I would not hesitate to purchase there's again

These speakers are so incredibly better than others I've listened to in their class (size and price) that they've made me realize how much I'm missing out on through the other various audio solutions in my house.
I have acquaintances with $20k plus sound systems and I've always kind of rolled my eyes at them. After listening to these for awhile I'm kind of starting to understand. These speakers sound great but highlight a few issues that I now want to delve deeper into my budgets to solve. They are fairly directional, not the best solution to fill a small room evenly with their great sound. They are punchy but lows don't come through as dynamically as in a full 2.1 system. They translate what I send to them so accurately that the difference between 192 and 320 kbps is obvious. Thankfully, I have some other quality bottlenecks to sort before I go spend thousands on stereos.

I have a decent speaker setup and decent receiver, and these speakers blow them out of the water. I used to think that the Monoprice headsets I use gave a good rendering of music, but compared to that they don't. I don't know what it is, whether it's the speakers really or whether it's because their stand points them right at my ears, but the quality is the best I've ever heard. I listen to music pretty much all work day now, they're that good. And now I wonder why Monoprice does not use ribbon tweeters in their most expensive monolith speakers. I don't get it. Anyway, get these on sale if you need desktop speakers, they're awesome.

Amazing sound quality for a discount price. I have them paired with a small monoprice sub and I?m very happy with the sound.
Not as good as my awesome home theater but for an office these do the trick!

I have into high end audio all my life. I have had M&K, Canton, B&W, & Sono Faber speakers in my house. Have always been very particular with my listening taste.

When I needed some new speakers for my computer at work I looked around and decided to give these a try. My expectations weren't very high as I have never really found anything for a computer that I have really liked previously. However, I do like to listen to music while working.

These speakers are amazing! You will have to hear them to believe it but they sound better than most speakers costing up to a $1000 a pair.

They create a 3 dimensional soundstage when placed about 5 ft apart. Vocals appear to be right in front of you with guitars and instruments on the left and right. The treble is clean and spacious highlighting the subtle sounds that most speakers simply can't reproduce.. Great speakers can make you hear things in songs that you never noticed before and pick some of your favorite songs and these will do that.

The bass sound leaves something to be desired. Sounds like is is crossed over at about 80-100hz which is not uncommon on a bookshelf speaker. It is clean just not very low at all. However, with the sub out simply adding an 8 inch sub will give you a very high system for around $500. i added the monoprice 8 inch sub and it more than adequate.

These speakers are not super loud and if you are looking to blow the doors out than these may not be the best fit. But if you are looking for a good clean almost audiophile sound for under $500 these are the best thing out there.

FYI I did have the faint humm/buzz people complained about with the 3.5mm jack. However, using the USB connection the sound is perfect complete silence between songs.

I think it would be hard to find something else in this range that brings more value. They easily compete with speakers 2-3x as much that I auditioned alongside. In total I listened to 6 different powered speakers, including from Monoprice, Kanto, Vanatoo, Edifier, and Q Acoustics. There are differences, but they are subtle in most cases. While I ended up opting for another brand with ever slightly more critical listening capability, you really can't go wrong with these. They are a touch warm, and the ribbons sometimes will emphasize poorly recorded (think old rock and metal albums) or sibilant high hats, crash, and ride cymbals. They also require a little more thought in setup because they tend to be somewhat more directional/narrowly focused with less lateral dispersion. But they are fantastic speakers. Superb bass for their size. excellent mid. they are budget friendly Kanto Tuk's imo. Input options are plentiful. Can't beat them bang for buck.

I'd had my eye on these for a while, having always had good experience with these folded ribbon/AMT tweeters....what I wasn't expecting was the depth of bass response. As it happened, I first fired these up next to a full THX-certified studio monitor setup with a sub the size of a coffee table, so it was quite a surprise to have these bookshelves covering the audible range of most music, and one of very few speakers I'd be pretty happy to use without a sub (action movie no...music yes).

There's a lot to like: very well-behaved, smooth, just ever so slightly light on highest end (which is often perceived as less fatiguing) but with eyebrow-raising amounts of detail and no standout box resonance or other problem areas. The bass/treble controls sound to me like high/low rolloff and are thus pretty useful in tuning the sound to your liking without creating harsh side effects, and can be adjusted via remote FROM YOUR LISTENING POSITION instead of fumbling behind the speakers themselves. The huge array of inputs, rock solid bluetooth performance, surprisingly nice matte finish (I was not expecting seamless corners) and thankfully subtle branding all round out this package as very likely the best Hi Fi system you're gonna find anywhere under $1K, and certainly the most capable all-in-one solution I've ever heard. And Hi Fi these are - they are not as brutally honest as a studio monitor, but rather more flattering, with just a little extra punch that combines with the buttery smooth and endlessly detailed high end to make you fall in love with all your music all over again.

Oh yeah...and they go to sleep; the standby mode (rare these days, especially with a real amp bypass relay, which you can heard if you listen close) means you really never have to manage these; they turn themselves on when you play something, and back off 10 min or so after you're done. Perfect for smart assistants

The speakers have a clean and sharp sound. The tweeter array provides a clean and detailed depiction of instruments and vocals. If one listens closely you can hear the detail of the instrumentation within the scope of a tune....very nice.
It seems that one must listen to hear the mids, they're there but seem a bit under welming Overall a GREAT setup for the price point of $299!!

The MM5Rs sound great! Awesome theatre, gaming, and music speakers imo. The remote gives you bass and treble control but a better EQ would be ideal for lowering the bass response without killing the midrange. Flat response on these make them sound the most spatial and lively to me and I use a dedicated subwoofer for the low end. They get pretty loud and the usb input works great, no hum at all. Heavy as well.
The warranty service is great as well, 5 years no questions asked replacement.

That brings me to my gripes...

Stop marketing the speakers as biamped tweeters and woofers separately! That is simply not possible; advertise that part correctly please.

Use tiffany style rcas jacks and raise the price 10 bucks or something as mine broke once since they are held in by a weak solder joint. (Monoprice replaced it for free but in the time i sent it back and got a replacement I had no set up for a while)

Lastly, and maybe my biggest disappointment, why even include a headphone jack... I mean it is the most crap amplifier I have literally ever heard in my life... The speakers are so good and then this headphone amp is the one thing that you just have to avoid and not think about because it is SO USELESS. My Oneplus can power my headphones with more power... That is a cell phone... Point being it is literally unuseable, quiet and so muffled.

Love the speakers! Would buy in a heartbeat when on sale! Also consider listing the DAC details please!