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Great Sound. Low Cost. A Steal!
Pros
Great Sound. Low Cost. Powerful Sub.
Cons
Will be expensive if you buy them new.
Recommended it?
Yes
These speakers are unbelievable overpriced, unless you can find a cheap place to buy them, and I know of a cheap place to buy them. These speakers are made to fit on the sides of your monitor. I didn't like that, I wanted them on my desktop but because of the way they are designed they look retarded sitting there on the desk, so I was forced to stick them on my monitor. They are very powerful speakers. I could turn them up loud enough for my entire dorm hall to hear it perfectly and there was no distortion. The sub is also very powerful. It is a little bit too large but it does pack a punch. I sometimes play BASS TECHNO music on them to impress my friends. The only reason it ends up sounding bad is because it rattles everything in the room, and in your neighbors room. This is not a problem though because the amount of bass is adjustable via a knob on the right side speaker. The treble is and amount of 3d is also adjustable. The "3d" knob is common on a lot of speakers today although it is a misleading name. First of all, SOUND can not be 3d. Sorry to disappoint everyone. What the "3d" knob actually does is adjust the amount of stereo. It can make it so that certain frequencies only play on certain stereo channels. So you get the effect of different instruments coming from different speakers. With the 3d knob all the way up, you might hear drums and trumpets coming from the left speaker while trombones and baritones play on the right speaker. It is a pretty cool effect but one I don't use very often because it actually hurts the sound quality.
Stereo is not the only option on these speakers. There is another button next to stereo button for "Surround Effect". This is were their "Virtual Dolby Surround" comes in. Remember that it is VIRTUAL. These speakers actually have 3 drivers on each speaker. With the sub that makes 7 drivers overall. When you choose the virtual dolby surround option, I think all it really does is split up the sound channels to individual drivers. It DOES sound much different than the stereo option, but it sounds no where near as good as real Dolby Digital. One thing you really need to remember is that it is an ANALOG wire going from the computer to the speakers, so there is no way it could possibly send encoded information. Therefore, even if you bought a dolby digital encoded DVD, you would hear nothing different on these speakers.
These are very good speakers, but not at all worth their $150 buying price at Fry's. Or the $200 price at CompUSA. (Note: CompUSA is a BAD store. They always overprice EVERYTHING). The thing is, I bought my speakers for $40. You can do this by buying them refurbished at an ONSALE.com auction. They aren't actually refurbished, they are just compusa overstocks. No one wants to buy from compusa, so compusa sells all its cr@p to onsale/egghead and they sell it on their auctions. Here is a tip when buying from Onsale/Egghead: They usually have the same products every day, so dont try and buy a product when you first see it. I saw these speakers going for around $60-$70 every day until one time they put 44 of them out on the auction. Since there were so many people bidding, the price didn't go as high and I got them for $40.
Happy Listening.
Stereo is not the only option on these speakers. There is another button next to stereo button for "Surround Effect". This is were their "Virtual Dolby Surround" comes in. Remember that it is VIRTUAL. These speakers actually have 3 drivers on each speaker. With the sub that makes 7 drivers overall. When you choose the virtual dolby surround option, I think all it really does is split up the sound channels to individual drivers. It DOES sound much different than the stereo option, but it sounds no where near as good as real Dolby Digital. One thing you really need to remember is that it is an ANALOG wire going from the computer to the speakers, so there is no way it could possibly send encoded information. Therefore, even if you bought a dolby digital encoded DVD, you would hear nothing different on these speakers.
These are very good speakers, but not at all worth their $150 buying price at Fry's. Or the $200 price at CompUSA. (Note: CompUSA is a BAD store. They always overprice EVERYTHING). The thing is, I bought my speakers for $40. You can do this by buying them refurbished at an ONSALE.com auction. They aren't actually refurbished, they are just compusa overstocks. No one wants to buy from compusa, so compusa sells all its cr@p to onsale/egghead and they sell it on their auctions. Here is a tip when buying from Onsale/Egghead: They usually have the same products every day, so dont try and buy a product when you first see it. I saw these speakers going for around $60-$70 every day until one time they put 44 of them out on the auction. Since there were so many people bidding, the price didn't go as high and I got them for $40.
Happy Listening.
