( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Jan 16 2009
Nice looking I thought...taking them out of the box (and they were FREE with a Pinnacle Studion 12 upgrade offer). I plug them in and they sound very decent...then I start trying to unplug my left ear. Nope. It's the speakers. If I switched the RCA L n R jacks same thing. The right speak is TWICE as loud as the left. Since they were free, I will adjust the balance on my soundcard output and keep them on my desk...they do sound decent for desk-jockey music. Please don't consider paying any money for these, though!!!!!
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 6 2009
By no means, am I an audiophile. I was looking for a good pair of speakers for my computer. The Advent speakers I had, would no longer power on right away, but they were 3 computers old (10+ years) and perfect for me: clean sound at a volume loud enough to hear in an adjacent room should I need to leave the computer, good bass vs. brightness, and lasted a helluva long time for about the $70 bucks or so I paid at Fry's in the 90s. I was looking for something similar sound, price, and durability: balanced sound, 50-100 bucks and last over 5 years. Given the reviews of the AV 40 I had read, and the discount available on the AV 20, I got just about what I paid for, in sound: bass and volume. They look and feel great, and will presumably last a good long time, but a heavier gauge, longer speaker wire may be required. Ultimately speakers are about the the sound and these didn't cut it for me. They are good enough I won't mind "re-gifting" them, but if you work at M-Audio is that what you really want to hear? The instructions were a little dubious, it was unclear if there is a true left or right,I figured the on/off/volume control was meant for the right since that is most folks mouse hand. The Amazon picture I am looking at, has it currently on the left; I found a song with clear left and right channels, played it on the mac's internal speakers to determine left and right, and then set the speakers to match. Little bothersome details that would not be there if they were written in the writer's first language. I probably paid about the right price for these speakers, 45 w/shipping, but felt gypped and wanting more.
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Posted: Oct 6 2008
My husband bought me these speakers and I really like them. They are a great size and produce a very nice sound.
