Your specialist dealer stocks a mountain load of different speakers. Here’s a guide to the most common types.

Satellite Speakers

Small speakers designed to be stand-mounted or placed in a bookshelf usually having two drivers, a tweeter for high frequencies and a woofer for midrange frequencies. But they need a sub-woofer to produce ample levels of bass.

 Bookshelf speakers
Compact loudspeakers with a similar driver arrangement to satellite speakers and usually are designed by specialist brands to work in smaller rooms.
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Floor standing speakers
As the name suggests these larger speakers look as if they are standing on the floor but usually have a set of spikes that elevates them above floor level by an inch or so.
They come in a huge range of sizes and can have multiple drivers. Larger floorstanders typically produce a fuller sound than a compact.

Subwoofer
A dedicated bass speaker than can be active when it’s powered by its own built-in amplifier. Or it’s a passive model when it doesn’t have the amplifier.