It's been I think close to 4 years since I bought my first speakers from Aperion Audio. I bought 2 532 lr's, when they released the HDx3 I believe. Anyways I purchased a 12 inch sub from them shortly afterwards and have been enjoying the stereo system for a few years. It has sounded great but I'm by no means an audiophile. My living room is 24 ft wide and 16 ft deep. And I also have a lot of open space going to the kitchen dining room and formal dining room. The 2 532's filled the the living room of course with the help of the 12" sub powered by my yamaha rx-v757.
Anyways I just purchased 2 5b's open boxed, and a 5c to finish out my 5.1 system. The biggest thing I noticed is that the 5b's are narrower than the 532's and I think the small woofer in it is slightly smaller than the 532's. I have the 5b's up front to match with the 5c. Also the color of the speakers is much more red and darker than my older speakers as I ordered them in cherry. Anyways I played the movie cars with my 5 year old son last night. I can say the sound fills the room even better and having objects feel like they fly through your room and move and come out of what seems to be nowhere adds such effect to a movie. Sound don't sound like it comes from speakers....but from all around. Needless to say my son's attention was fixed to the screen with his mouth dropped and when Frank came out of nowhere he ran out of the room in fear that Frank was coming for him too.
Needless to say I'm happy with my system and have many more movies to watch. I can't wait to watch some Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings....but I have not the time at the moment. I have to run and do some work in a little bit and then do family time stuff since those are the requirements of Family life. Thanks to Aperion who make such great products....oh and BTW I did have a problem with my sub in the past while it was under warranty. Aperion took care of it no problem....I had to ship it back but they replaced the amp in the sub and sent it back.....and has been great ever since. I give great praise to Aperion Audio. Oh.....one more thing I couldn't find any confetti on the packages when they arrived.