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Wharfdale Diamond - Pleb Audiophile speaker?

Looking for people opinions in Wharfdale diamond speakers, I live in a small town with one only okay stereo/ audio dealer, he was attempting to tell me what wharfdale diamond speakers are excellent, better than B&W CM series. Upon inspection of the speaker the appear to try to ripoff the woven Kevlar look but it appears the wover pattern looked like embossed plastic rather than a woven material of any kind.
Had a listen and the treble was dull and the bass was boomy.

I would never consider buying these, they struck me as over hyped general consumer quality surround speakers rather than 2 channel listening speakers.

what does anyone think, are they good? kind of good? or is it just a big advertising campaign to sell dressed up whitevan scam speakers legit to unsuspecting punters?
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I own a pair of Wharfdale Diamond 9.1 speakers, and they are a decent value for what they are, inexpensive bookshelf speakers that I use as rear speakers for home theater. I listened to them when I first bought them years ago, and thought they sounded pretty good considering the price (I think I paid $175?). I would not consider them as main speakers in a musical system though.

As Realremo also noted, I did hear a pair of Quad bookshelves later that I thought sounded better, but while I can't recall the price, I didn't think it would be worth the time/money just to upgrade some rear speakers for HT. The Wharfdale's that I have do fine for that.
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