Chinese audio manufacturer Edifier continues to impress with its audio equipment – and it’s done it again with its S2000 Pro active monitor speakers. They’re bloody brilliant.

I was only able to test out the speakers for a week but I was blown away by not only the styling and build quality (that wood finish is just gorgeous but it does make them heavy!) but the speakers blew me away with the sound quality, too.

Edifier says the S2000 Pro speakers are designed for home recording and mixing but you know what: They’re bloody good to play music on if that’s what you want to get them for. Edifier says the speakers are tri-amped at 124watts, and feature 5 1⁄2-inch aluminium diaphragm drivers and a set of planar tweeters which provide “great acoustic range”. Here’s a .pdf about the speakers: s2000proi and here’s a video (without commentary) of the speakers set up at home and me playing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

I thought a nice attention to detail was that each speaker has four brass feet which means the speakers aren’t resting on a surface (ie table), which in terms means there’s no unnecessary vibrations impacting on the sound quality. Edifier provides a 5m connection cable which means you can place the speakers where they best fit in your entertainment/game console set-up – or wherever you want to place them.

The speakers come with a pretty large, pretty uncomplicated remote which means you can sit back on the couch as you listen to your favourite tunes. You can also change the source using a knob on the left speaker but why bother when you’ve got a fully functional remote? The remote also has four EQ modes: Vocal, Monitor, Classic and Dynamic, which is ideal for gaming and movies (if I’d had the time or thought about it, I would have hooked the speakers up to one of my game consoles and really stirred things up!)

The S2000 Pro speakers can be connected to a sound source either by optical cable, RCA cable or Bluetooth, which is how I tested the speakers out, given the short time I had them. Connecting to the speakers was super easy and I tested the speakers on a variety of songs and soundtracks from my Spotify playlist, which included Paul Leonard-Morgan’s driving soundtrack to the movie Dredd,  a variety of 1979s and ’80s classics,  and one of my standard music testing songs, Queen’s legendary Bohemian Rhapsody. A classic if ever there was one.

The S2000 Pro’s ticked all the boxes when it came to sound quality and cranking them up, especially while playing, Bohemian Rhapsody (to the point of annoying family members who are watching TV in the next room), they fill a room with sound that didn’t distort the louder it got.

To be honest, I’d be happy tossing out our portable speakers and replace them with Edifier’s S2000 units. Sure, they’re not portable so you won’t be able to take them on the boat or on a picnic with your loved one, but around the home, these things punch well above their weight, especially for the price.

Talking of which, the S2000 Pro speakers will set you back around $600-$700, depending on the retailer, which for a set of speakers of this quality and ones that could easily feel at home in your main entertainment set-up, they’re a steal.

Look, if I had one complaint about the S2000 Pro speakers, it would be the plastic covers over the drivers. They just feels cheap, especially at the top. It would be nice to see a more substantial plastic used.

Once again, Edifier has impressed the pants off me with its audio equipment.