My wife bought me a pair of these 22s for my birthday. Which was great because we need no speakers, but she knew I'd been wanting them just to play with and hear. So I've been listening to these instead of my Fortes for a few days now - and will continue to do so until the banana connectors I ordered arrive in a couple more days or so. Amazing speaker which I am using with my subwoofer, and it sounds great.
So Christine's laughing when she heard them, "You really didn't expect these to sound as good as our big ones, did you?" In her opinion they were obviously inferior to the Klipsch; attempts on my part to explain that I heard a couple things I thought the Pioneers do better than the Klipsch met only with doubt and scoffing. Further explanations that some people hate Klipsch and would actually prefer the little Pioneers also failed to be convincing to her, and she was totally convinced that such a claim had to be based on nothing other than sour grapes. She thinks we already have the epitome in quality sounding speakers in our living room, which is fantastic in my book because when we first got them (thanks again, Michael) she kept saying they were too big. And I love the Klipsch, too. They aren't going anywhere. That said, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Pioneer for the things they do well - a smooth frequency response, sparkly highs and good imaging - but look forward to getting those nanner plugs in and reconnecting the Klipsch.
For sale prices of less than a c-note and free shipping, I don't believe you can do better for new transducers.
or about a hundred maybe less for the Allison
