The Fluance Ai81 powered floorstanding speakers are far more than your average pair of Bluetooth speakers.
Fluance Ai81 Elite speaker review: Power from the towers MSRP $499.99 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “The Fluance Ai81 may not fit in every listening space, but if you've got the real estate, you'll be beyond pleased with the results.” Pros Cons When we think of powered speakers, our minds tend to lean toward more compact bookshelf speakers such as the superb KEF LX II or the renowned Klipsch The Fives.
The Ai81 deliver a robust, crystal-clear sonic profile that manages to pull out new details from albums we’ve heard a million times over. Around front, a single LED indicator is your guide for determining if the speakers are on or off and what input you’re set to. Volume, treble, and bass adjustments will make the LED flash, with a red blink meaning you’ve hit the maximum level for each adjustment.Quick setup and simple controls The Fluance Ai81 may appear like a normal pair of passive tower hi-fi speakers that you would connect with speaker wire to an amp or receiver. And that’s how I first attempted to wire them.
On the remote, there are a few buttons for play/pause and track skipping if you don’t want to handle these duties with your Bluetooth-connected device, as well as an LED adjusterthat allows you to tone down the brightness of the right speaker’s front indicator. The album’s steady rocker, Herd Culling, opens with a mishmash of digital noise and panned synths, a quiet lead-in that the Fluance Ai81 are patient in articulating, slowly opening up the soundstage to gain way for the crunchy-clean, main guitar riff. When frontman Steven Wilson screams “liar,” the band dials up the adrenaline, breaking into a head-basher of a chorus that gains and soars across all frequencies.
Welcome Home is the softer track off this album, and the Ai81 do an excellent job of making these quieter passages extra-special. James Hetfield’s main, chorus-laden guitar sounds isolated, sorrowful, and a bit springy, too, a tone amicably juxtaposed against Hammett’s soaring pre-verse leads. It’s guitar double-duty done right, and the Ai81 defiantly balance both six-string styles.
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