Rubber feet keep the pair of speakers steady on the desk, although I could have used the included wall bracket if I wanted to. Checking out the back finds slots for attaching a power cord and RCA cable from the PC’s line out, as well as a set of controls for adjustments based on the acoustics of where it’s placed. This is serious stuff - I mean, when was the last time you saw reference frequency response charts in a PC speaker manual?
Taking out the techno speak, bottom line is that they should be aimed so they converge at ear height and are at about the same distance from one to the other to you. Plan on spending some time adjusting their response using the controls on the back, because this is where it gets personal (zero them out and start with the settings the manual suggests). In my case, I ended up adjusting the “Level” trim to three-quarters full (to match the sensitivity of the DVDs and CDs being played), and put the Desktop nub to OFF and the Bass Tilt at -6dB because the desk was so near the wall.
Of course all the tweaking in the world doesn’t prove anything - like most folks, I judge the quality of audio based on what it sounds like and not from some audio measuring meter. So I popped in the DVD of The Dark Knight and navigated to the scene where the Joker’s smoking the streets from a 16-wheeler. The strength of the sound was awesome - the bass was like a hammer as the helicopter smacked into the side of the office building and then crashed to the pavement. I also tried listening to the cars zooming around the tracks in Speed Racer - the speakers articulated details that frankly I hadn’t heard before when listening in my home theater (of course I was a lot closer to the audio but that’s what this speaker’s designed for after all).
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