Infinity TSS-500CHR High-Performance, 6-Piece Home Theater Speaker System (Charcoal Black)

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 45 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 49 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000K1XWFO
• Item model number: TSS-500CHR
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,382 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #66 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Stereo Components > Speakers > Speaker Systems

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Infinity TSS-500 - Precision Sound at an Affordable Price

Advancing the Science of Sound for 40 Years
Are you passionate about good sound? Infinity is. With groundbreaking technologies, revolutionary materials and advanced manufacturing techniques, Infinity loudspeakers have set new standards for performance, simplicity and style for 40 years. Since Infinity was founded in a California garage in 1968 by engineers passionate about music, its critically acclaimed loudspeakers and design leadership have remained unchallenged. Through the years, state-of-the-art engineering facilities and unmatched resources have allowed Infinity manufacturers to design and develop innovative loudspeakers and loudspeaker technologies that push the limits of accurate sound reproduction.

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Hear Your Music and Movies the Way the Artist Intended

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Stiff, Lightweight Speaker Design for Fantastic Sound
A well-engineered loudspeaker should be like a window into an artist’s soul, meaning that you hear exactly what they intended without changes or alterations. Unheard of at its price point, the Infinity TSS-500 speaker system does just that by using speaker cones that are both incredibly stiff and lightweight. Using satellites that feature a 2-way design with 2-1/2” drivers and a 3/4” tweeter, the TSS-500 speaker cones are able to reduce distortions caused by bending or flexing of the cone while remaining lightweight. The light weight of the cones helps the TSS-500 reproduce detail from your music naturally and effortlessly. The center speaker uses two of the 2-1/2" midrange drivers to step up the sound even more. And with the added 8”, 100-Watt powered subwoofer, low frequencies are deep and tight. The result is performance that rivals speaker systems that cost many times its price.

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Exceptional Sound Anywhere in the Room

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Superior Engineering Resources Guarantee a Quality Listening Experience
Many loudspeaker manufacturers are actually loudspeaker assemblers, buying parts off the shelf from different companies with the goal of assembling them into a final product. While this system might help to keep costs down, it does very little to guarantee how the speakers are going to sound. Infinity manufacturers design, engineer and build all parts of the loudspeaker. This integrated process allows Infinity to control all aspects of speaker creation, and results in smoothly engineered loudspeaker systems that sound great in any room.

Optimized to Ensure Great Sound, No Matter Where You Sit
The place where you sit in a room as you listen to speakers can have just as great an effect on what you hear as the speakers themselves. Though you might try to sit in the “sweet spot,” sometimes it just isn’t possible.

So what if you want great sound anywhere you might sit? To make sure that listening to the TSS-500 is a great experience everywhere in the room, Infinity speakers use a proprietary waveguide. This conduit confines and guides electromagnetic waves around the tweeter, ensuring a wide dispersion of high frequencies throughout the room--all while keeping them both accurate and natural sounding. The result is an incredible sound experience throughout the entire room, even if someone beats you to the best seat in the house.


What's in the Box
This package includes four TSS-500 satellite speakers, one TSS-500 center speaker, one TSS-500 subwoofer, brackets for all five speakers, and speaker wire for convenient installation.

Product Description

TSS – Complete Movie and Music Loudspeaker system with Powered Subwoofer. Realistic surround sound, deep, powerful bass and clean dialogue reproduction will entice you into enjoying your favorite movies and music again and again

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The good and the bad., January 24, 2011

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This review is from: Infinity TSS-500CHR High-Performance, 6-Piece Home Theater Speaker System (Charcoal Black) (Electronics)

First the good.

Attractive/different looking that everything else.
Easily wipeable to clean.
Speakers don't sound like anything special individually, but all together they are pleasing.

Now for the bad.

(wall mount only) Speaker mount nut is burried between the wire posts which is in a 3/4" deep recess.
The posts are very close to the nut which makes tightening them impossible. You can't use a wrench
or a socket. I ultimately used a large pair of pliers with a side cutout that cleared the ball on the post.
I would imagine that they get speakers back all the time with broken wire posts.

The nuts that are used to secure the speakers to the wall mount break easily if you try to make the speakers
feel "secure". I broke one.

The sub looks nice, but its about 1/3 larger than it needs to be for the output.

Also if you wall mount these you must use their included brackets, other ones won't work due to the crazy design.
(I tried others when I broke the one and there is now easy way.)

If you don't need to wall mount, these are all non issues except for the size of the woofer.

I had a hard time deciding between these and Polk RM705s, and knowing how difficult the wall mounting would
be I definitely would have chosen the Polks with a wall mount bracket set.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars These are OK for compact speakers, July 8, 2010

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This review is from: Infinity TSS-500CHR High-Performance, 6-Piece Home Theater Speaker System (Charcoal Black) (Electronics)

I purchased these from Costco for way less than anywhere online. I have the predecessor to these as well, which I like better. The 500's are compact and lightweight, but the center channel makes voices sound somewhat hollow. The subwoofer is decent, and in 6 channel stereo mode on my Yamaha, the sound is very good. In normal pro-logic mode, the sound is lacking compared to my full size Infinity speakers, but I did expect that going in. I was looking to replace my failing speakers and save some space. I ended up using my old 15" subwoofer for very low frequencies and the packaged Infinity woofer doing the mid bass. This way, they have more punch and it helps fill in for the small satellites. Overall, these are good, especially if you pick them up for $250 as I did.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Speakers!, January 12, 2010

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Samuel A. Munoz (Lebanon, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infinity TSS-500CHR High-Performance, 6-Piece Home Theater Speaker System (Charcoal Black) (Electronics)

I have these speakers connected to a Pioneer VSX-919AH-K 120 Watts A/V Receiver with Full Color GUI/OSD, Advanced MCACC and Analog to HDMI Up-Conversion (Black) You can hear all of the notes distinctly and was a vast improvement over my older Sony htib speakers. The subwoofer is a bit big, but you'll be very pleased with the quality of the bass. One of my major concerns was speaker size since my living room is not very big. These speakers fit easily on a end table, lamp table and along side my flat screen. I am quite impressed with these speakers and do recommend them.