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I only had to crawl around enough to disconnect the volume control. Some cable swapping experiments eventually led me to the conclusion that the wired remote control had a bad/intermitting connection in the thin audio cable, or possibly a solder point inside the unit.At this point, I felt a little desperate, since I knew there was no way I was going to actually life the two billion bound subwoofer back out of its hole. It is gargantuan and came within an inch of not fitting in what I expected to be ample space beneath my desk.It isn't my goal to vibrate the neighbor's windows, I just wanted reasonably nice sound when playing music or games. They provided a ups mailing label and I have lots of little boxes.So it's back to them now, and I think they really are going to send me a replacement volume control.So it's probably premature to celebrate, but I just wanted to illuminate the turn-around in my mood from bleak to optimistic :)So, as to the speaker sound, I am satisfied, if not actually blown away. it sounded OK.But it did feel like something was missing. When shopping for a replacement speaker system, I ultimately selected this one based mainly on reviews.
The reviewers kept pointing this out, but I didn't believe them. And that, knowing myself, I was just going to live with it, and feel like an idiot (it wasn't the world's cheapest speaker system).So I wrote customer support a truly pathetic email, begging to get a replacement just-volume-control unit, feeling certain ahead of time that it would not be possible to do so and they would insist my mailing the whole thing back (and,of course, I don't keep the original packaging because it didn't even occur to me the unit would be defective)Anyway, after some initial interactions that sounded like the expected boiler plate "Have you turned it on." "is it plugged into your computer" comments, they surprised me by offering a replacement volume control. I wasn't too pleased with the wired volume control unit (I was used to the controls being on one of the speakers). At first I thought it was lacking in the mid-ranges (it might be), but eventually I noticed I just had no left channel at all. but as to the customer support, I am more than pleased.I do wish, as I think I have seen others comment, that they had spent the extra nickel to have the cables have connectors at both ends, instead of just disappearing into the block of plastic.But again, the subwoofer is monstrous, and the specifications I read didn't do that justice.Mine is: 16x12x12PLus one side is the huge speaker which you presumably want to not be driving right into a wall, and I am sure you need lots of thermal clearance as well. But once I had the thing installed, I found that I actually quite liked the concept of a volume control that could be closer to me than the speakers.The subwoofer is truly enormous though.
When I finally turned it on (did I mention it also weighs two zillion pounds).
Pretty much everything i wanted in a sound system.loud, distortion free, amazing bass.nothing to complain about.get one.
Great sound, no trouble yet.I would highly recommend. Bought this couple of weeks back.
I would say the harom-kardon sound sticks have a brghter,more natural sound but the logitechs blow them away at only 1/2 volume.Pretty bland in the looks department but function before form are what these speakers do best.An included bass level knob on the volume control is a big plus.overall huge value,big time sound and plenty of bass for under 150$shipped. With the exeption of fed ex losing my package(never had any touble with them before)it was a positive experiance.The set has very good sound and outstanding volume.
these things are freaking amazing. WHY DID I NOT BUY THIS EARLIER. i can not stop listening to itunes now-all my music sounds better.
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