Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2023
These speakers, for £25 (or £17 when I bought them on sale), are great and cheap as chips as well, however there are a few issues that could be addressed.
I’ll start with the pros:
• They are cheap (obviously)
• The sound quality, in my unprofessional view, is very good and doesn’t distort at high volumes
• Very small and handy, the RGB lights look cool
All that would bump this review up to 5 stars, however I will now address the cons:
• The RGB lights, first of all, are not timed correctly and so after the first few minutes of use become out of sync with each other - annoying, and secondly only have one colour for the kite shaped light, which is not what is on the box and advertisements. The speakers also have an illuminating light tucked under the lip of the kite shaped thing, which is irritating because that is ALSO out of sync!!
• The lights (and speaker) remain on after the PC is turned off, then eventually turn off with a relatively loud pop, like twisting the aux cord. These speakers also never turn off if the PC is sleeping, meaning after use you have to unplug them (I also hide them away). In my, again, unprofessional opinion, I believe this could be down to a dodgy capacitor which constantly draws as much power as possible from the power supply.
Those are, really, the only cons I could think of. Another aspect I thought I should mention is the volume adjuster thingy. That is very handy, however I saw another review mentioning that theirs got very hot after prolonged use, but mine does not do that, so I can’t say anything about that, but yours might be different.
Here’s the really strange thing though. When the product arrives, in the box and on the back of the speakers there is a text box saying email the address to get a lifetime warranty for the speakers.
oh yeah - side note, I saw another review mentioning that they could not get through to the email address and so the lifetime warranty was useless and I don’t know if that review was old or what, but the very kind operator responded within hours, so I can’t back that up.
Anyway, the lifetime warranty is great, no doubt about that. So I emailed the address saying please can you activate your warranty, they said yes - just give the order number - I gave that, they activated it all within a couple of hours (even though the email was sent in China with totally different time zones to me, in the UK, now that is dedication).
Here’s when things got a tad peculiar however. The operator, after activating my warranty, asked me if I could put a 5 star rating on amazon and she would then give me a £10 amazon voucher. As much as I would love a voucher, I wanted to give a fair review to amazon, so I kindly declined the offer. They then emailed back saying no worries, but then they asked if I would like a brand new microphone to give a review on free of charge for, if I could send a 5 star review and a picture. Again, in the interests of being fair, I declined the offer. Now, I don’t want to say anything bad about the marketing strategies here, but that seems a bit odd, and so people who may want the £10 voucher will 5 star review the product, so if I were you, I wouldn’t trust some less intuitive reviews.
Was that waffle? I feel like I waffled way too much. I don’t know.
Also, in terms of reliability, I have seen reviews stating that they have had poor reliability with the product. I have had this for a week now (as I wanted to get this review out of the way ASAP) and absolutely nothing has gone wrong, however, I will always make sure to update this review if anything does happen.
Overall:
Great performance (for price), easy to use, good size, looks good, if a bit strange in some ways and very weird (maybe even dodgy) marketing.
7.85/10