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These speakers are awesome. Couldn't get a better sound for the buck. The bass is incredible.
To top it off the first pair I bought had a loose connection. These are the worst speakers I have ever bought. The high's are flat, the sub is muddy. They sent me a replacment, but that one every once in ahwile will create a buzz. Waste of my time and my money.
I bought this item directly from altec lansing by $33.00 and free shipping. This speaker's bass can blast any people standing in the front of it. 2, to turn the bass to lowest volume. This speaker may have some defeats in design. I am serious.
1, to turn it on and keep it on high volume, and play no music. (Hope the website manager would not delete my post since I just want somewhere to post my review to this item, so that more people can buy it based on other people's experience). As you may have read them from other reviewers, the most trouble one is definitely, for a customer like me, the boring low frequency noise. What you need to do is just to find a proper position to place it. Well, I should explain this.
If you are looking for a regular speaker, think before you buy it by the normal price $60-70, since you may haveother options on this money level. I think most of the 2.1 speakers have such trouble, the bass or low pitch sound is so loud and not clear that you can hardly get the mid-range, not mention that mit-range is a natural defeat of 2.1 system. Just put the bass box or the so-called subwoofer to somewhere far from you, and, use a heavy clothes to cover it, or even place it in a box. There are two possibilities for it to produce such noise.
I have no idea if this has anything to do with integrated sound card on my computer. What a pity. At first I have to claim that I am not a native English speaker, so I may use some descriptive words unproperly, sorry for that.You may feel strange why I gave a "disputable" stuff a five star. Trust me, though this speaker's mid-range is not very ideal, it is totally acceptable, in particular if you are just looking for a "not bad" speaker. What you need is only to make the volume a little higher, and block the shocking wave from the subwoofer.If you are an ear-sensitive listener, of course you should buy a 2.0 system, or a high-quality headphone, such as beyerdynamic.If you are looking for a speaker for gangsta rap or party music, go for it. If you find a nice deal as I found, do not hesitate. But I have to keep the bass in a very low level in most of the time so that I would not experience a heart attack by simply playing some pop music. By the way, its mid-range is mostly from the bottom of satellites, but it does not matter too much since there is an angle between the bottom and the desk.
That is incredible price for this speaker I think. Now I put the satellites on my desk and the subwoofer near the corner, with my poor clothes:) It works perfect for me and the control panel on satellites is very convenient, since the subwoofer is covered. (Please be careful, in some cases, not necessarily my case, the low frequency noise is made by the low-quality sound card). Anyway, there is a very easy solution to this issue. I saw many people placed their bass box near the monitor and complained its sound is too heavy. :p
It should not be too hard to build a woofer so that it is relatively modular. I brought it back to Best Buy to see if they could scrap out the remains of the cable plug in the receptor but they could not.
However, I was ok with it. I read through some of the reviews - the speakers do emit a hum.
I found to my dismay that the woofer is built in such a way that it cannot be repaired. But one day I tripped over wire plugged into the back of the woofer and the cable plug broke off in the receptor.
I tried to scrap it out but could not. The back of the woofer says that the unit can not be serviced.
I gave it a star since it is decent for its price, but I can't use it now.
I bought this set a long time ago and I am not happy with it.Way too much bass. even when I put bass low and treble almost max the sound is way to low in frequences.another problem is if you shutdown the bass there is a noise background.a cheap set but not great. I'll not advise you to buy it.
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