I am not so good at writing my thought on the pmc twenty three speakers but I will give it a go.
I am also not a hi-fi buff but I have been in the hobby for 20 years I am mainly into home cinema.
The speakers were delivered from my local shop a few days before Christmas so as you can guess I was very excited on Christmas morning.
The speakers are well packed nice plinths and instructions with warrantee card.
I attached my chord epic twin speaker cables to them and grabbed my cds turned on the amps server etc and thought write here goes I have blu rays cds flac files lets see what these quite small speakers can do .
The music consisted of heavy rock to classic a bit of every thing .
So the amps are warm its nice a quite lets try the everlast album ( white trash beautiful ).
Hmm they sounded flat bass-less and withdrawn,, it was like listening to them with an over coat draped Over the speaker , as you can guess its Christmas morning and I was not a happy chappy , lets try some other stuff 10 cd and 20 flacs later still the same , my thought were is this the best I can get from a speaker that I have heard so much about ,
Well I left the room with the parasound and onkyo on 30 vol and left the room to prepare the Christmas dinner
I went back into the room around eleven so the speaker had been on from 6 am .sat down to look at my email's when all of a sudden at 11.15 the dances with wolves cd went from disappointing to holy sh*t what happened these things came alive it was like a tap that went from 10% to 100% they where unleashed the high end was rich and amazingly accurate , the drums in track 7 just rolled of the speakers and pocked u in the face ,
These pocket rockets came alive and I smiled again .
The finish 5/5
First class finish you can even smell the oils used to treat the wood when u unwrap them, the grills and terminals are fist class
For home cinema use 4/5
very accurate in music scenes for films they would be great for rear speakers but as a driving force then no unless you have a room around 4m x 4m
no substitute for bypole or dipole speakers IMOA
realism 4/5
does it sound like you are there with the artist in your room ?,I guess all these ratings would change depending on your equipment and to get the true artist sound it will cost a lot more money and demos.
sheer pleasure 5/5 thats the look the sound the pose value with some tilting speakers etc 
Drive 4/5
This is a difficult one the volume I normally listen to music at is around 30 with these I need to be on 70 on the onkyo , this is with the 250w parasound a51 punching its way to the speakers .i think with something like a 100 to 150w amp you would not get the best out of these speakers
Its still early days with these speakers and this is only my point of view on them
And it's only been 60 hours with them and I am finding it difficult not to compare the with definitive technology towers next them with built in active subs which are quite a bit more money than the 23s
Depth and sheer energy 5/5
Well these do punch above their weight they make a sound that is amazingly large and spacious
Its a bit like Barry McGuigan punching like Tyson lol. if you close your eyes the sound field is massive. Any type of music would sound good on them.
My next move is to get some 500w mono blocks to see if this will help with my over all view on them ,it seems one minute I am happy the next I am not the main reason I have they need to be warmed up allot I cant just turn the system on and 15 min later enjoy it .For me at the moment they need to be driven and warm to get a sound out of them that I like , this could be that they just need more time to loosen up its been about 60 hours so far .
The system I am using is.
Naim cd5i
Oppp bdp 95
Parasound a51
Onkyo 5508 processor
Chord indigo xlr s
QNAP server
Isotek main conditioner
Conclusion
I still have a love hate relationship with the speakers maybe it's because they are quite a bit of money and I normally go for speakers that have no fancy looks to them but they just sound great , these do sound great in fact they will rock your boat , any music you throw at them will sound truly amazing ,
Just remember to drive them with a good amp ,
If youre looking to upgrade through the pmc range I think you should,take a demo and I am sure you will part with your pennies.
Total conclusion with the cost /looks/ sound etc 4.5/5
SORRY ABOUT THE SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION , I WAS LISTENING TO MY HIFI EQUIPMENT WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT SCHOOL 
I am also not a hi-fi buff but I have been in the hobby for 20 years I am mainly into home cinema.
The speakers were delivered from my local shop a few days before Christmas so as you can guess I was very excited on Christmas morning.
The speakers are well packed nice plinths and instructions with warrantee card.
I attached my chord epic twin speaker cables to them and grabbed my cds turned on the amps server etc and thought write here goes I have blu rays cds flac files lets see what these quite small speakers can do .
The music consisted of heavy rock to classic a bit of every thing .
So the amps are warm its nice a quite lets try the everlast album ( white trash beautiful ).
Hmm they sounded flat bass-less and withdrawn,, it was like listening to them with an over coat draped Over the speaker , as you can guess its Christmas morning and I was not a happy chappy , lets try some other stuff 10 cd and 20 flacs later still the same , my thought were is this the best I can get from a speaker that I have heard so much about ,
Well I left the room with the parasound and onkyo on 30 vol and left the room to prepare the Christmas dinner
I went back into the room around eleven so the speaker had been on from 6 am .sat down to look at my email's when all of a sudden at 11.15 the dances with wolves cd went from disappointing to holy sh*t what happened these things came alive it was like a tap that went from 10% to 100% they where unleashed the high end was rich and amazingly accurate , the drums in track 7 just rolled of the speakers and pocked u in the face ,
These pocket rockets came alive and I smiled again .
The finish 5/5
First class finish you can even smell the oils used to treat the wood when u unwrap them, the grills and terminals are fist class
For home cinema use 4/5
very accurate in music scenes for films they would be great for rear speakers but as a driving force then no unless you have a room around 4m x 4m
no substitute for bypole or dipole speakers IMOA
realism 4/5
does it sound like you are there with the artist in your room ?,I guess all these ratings would change depending on your equipment and to get the true artist sound it will cost a lot more money and demos.
sheer pleasure 5/5 thats the look the sound the pose value with some tilting speakers etc 
Drive 4/5
This is a difficult one the volume I normally listen to music at is around 30 with these I need to be on 70 on the onkyo , this is with the 250w parasound a51 punching its way to the speakers .i think with something like a 100 to 150w amp you would not get the best out of these speakers
Its still early days with these speakers and this is only my point of view on them
And it's only been 60 hours with them and I am finding it difficult not to compare the with definitive technology towers next them with built in active subs which are quite a bit more money than the 23s
Depth and sheer energy 5/5
Well these do punch above their weight they make a sound that is amazingly large and spacious
Its a bit like Barry McGuigan punching like Tyson lol. if you close your eyes the sound field is massive. Any type of music would sound good on them.
My next move is to get some 500w mono blocks to see if this will help with my over all view on them ,it seems one minute I am happy the next I am not the main reason I have they need to be warmed up allot I cant just turn the system on and 15 min later enjoy it .For me at the moment they need to be driven and warm to get a sound out of them that I like , this could be that they just need more time to loosen up its been about 60 hours so far .
The system I am using is.
Naim cd5i
Oppp bdp 95
Parasound a51
Onkyo 5508 processor
Chord indigo xlr s
QNAP server
Isotek main conditioner
Conclusion
I still have a love hate relationship with the speakers maybe it's because they are quite a bit of money and I normally go for speakers that have no fancy looks to them but they just sound great , these do sound great in fact they will rock your boat , any music you throw at them will sound truly amazing ,
Just remember to drive them with a good amp ,
If youre looking to upgrade through the pmc range I think you should,take a demo and I am sure you will part with your pennies.
Total conclusion with the cost /looks/ sound etc 4.5/5
SORRY ABOUT THE SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION , I WAS LISTENING TO MY HIFI EQUIPMENT WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT SCHOOL 
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