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Built in subwoofer gives these speakers great balance in overall sound.Perfect upgrade for any notebook/home use. This product is a great buy. Single piece construction, high quality sound that projects extremely well. What makes this great is the price.I paided under $37 with S/H INCLUDED.
I bought this speaker for my wife after having bought her a new laptop whose only limitation was a very week internal speaker. It's got good bass and a clear sound. But, for a $20 speaker, it's all she wanted and more. I found this one at Amazon for $20 on sale. The only comments that were negative seemed to be from people expecting a $100 speaker. It fits easily behind her 15" laptop screen.As others have said, this speaker is not the most easily portable, but, paraphrasing Barack Obama at an early primary debate with Hillary Clinton, "You're portable enough." She can take it in her bag to school, where she teaches, and take it home with little difficulty.It makes her happy and does all she wants with all the quality her ears need to hear.Marc
But I haven't really had to look because the default setting sounds good enough.I have already recommended these speakers to others, and if you're looking for something under $40, this is the way to go. Look carefully at the user-added pictures, it is a pretty bulky speaker. I have two negative critiques: one minor and one probably my own fault. Also included are three USB ports in the back. Couple this with $19.99 from TigerDirect and this is a great deal. If you have a room or apartment, this is more than enough to fill the place with sound. These are great speakers, and for the price, it's hard to beat. No distortion or buzzing at loud settings either.The built-in sub is small, but if you're close to the speakers there is enough bass.
Although this isn't a problem for me, others may find it a bit larger than expected. I have this in my bedroom, and I can be two walls and about 30 feet in away in my kitchen and hear the music just fine. First, the size. Second, there is only one manual control, and that is volume.
The price of those two extras alone would probably cost 1/2 the price of this system. So even though it takes up one USB port on your computer, you get two more. I keep mine on my desk right behind my laptop, and it's really fantastic sound. And it includes a USB extension cord.
I haven't found a way to adjust the bass, but then again, it could be doable through Windows and it's my own fault for not exploring more carefully.
I bought them so I could play tunes from my laptop in a small living room. I did not realize, though, how underpowered they would be. At maximum volume, it is about half the volume I would have expected. The speakers have an attractive design. If I walk across the room, the music is barely audible. Now I bought them through an alternative seller [.]., so this still strikes me as a reasonable deal. If I had spent the $[.].
If I am sitting at the computer, i.e. From the size and reviews I expected clear sound without a lot of bass, which is indeed so. within a couple of feet of the speakers, the sound is fine. or so that they typically cost, I would have sent them back and continued looking for a better option.
So if you have a larger screen it may block the speakers. This is possibly one of the best add-ons i can think of for a laptop. If you have a widescreen laptop, which means any AR past 4:3 you may be S.O.L. My 15" Inspiron 1525 fits by a margin of about 1/4 of an inch per side. The speakers on my Inspiron 1525 were poor at best and were just barely good enough for Youtube videos. However one word of caution before buying, Logitech advertises this as being able to expand outwards to accommodate screen sizes up to and including 17". So today i said enough was enough and what i find but the Audiohub.
All in all if you're disappointed in your laptop speakers output you shouldn't be reading this review you should be checking out already. Highs and mids are perfect, bass could be a bit louder if you ask me but you can expect much from a 3" driver. At this price I didn't expect much but WOW, these babies can blow. By all means these are no Studio Monitors but for a semi-portable system the peaker system with comparable sound is the Bose® SoundDock® Series II digital music system for iPod® - Black and we can all see the price difference, not to mention the fact that it's not for laptops. Other than that I cant say much else negative about this product.
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