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 Big sound, small price, and nice looking too. September 5, 2010
Kenneth Chen (Los Angeles, CA)
These are attractive, compact, silver-colored speakers that can complement your brushed aluminum computer, like the Mac. They are very reasonably priced and, more importantly, they sound great! They don't have a bulky subwoofer to take up space. This is a great buy.
 Sound fine, annoying buzz, volume knob difficult to turn September 3, 2010
Evan Kuhn
So for $50 speakers, what do you expect. Plug them in and they play sound. Kind of hard to mess that up, right? My gripes are twofold, however:
1) The volume knob is the ONLY thing on the speaker that you ever need to touch, and yet they've made it incredibly difficult to turn. It's tiny, slippery, and basically requires two hands to turn (one to hold the speaker and the other to grip the knob *really* hard and turn). Maybe I just got a bad pair, but you'd think they would make that ONE single thing easy to use.
2) There's definitely a buzz coming from the speakers. I can hear it right now. It's not loud, but loud enough to hear in a quiet room. bzzzzzz....
They seem minor, but I find both of those problems to be increasingly annoying. In fact, after a few months of using these speakers, I think I want to replace them. I'm surprised that others liked them so much.
Works. But poor sound quality. August 20, 2010
Randy Kirsch
I am a bit of an audiophile and have had tons of different home, car and theater speakers over the past 10 years. This pair was not meant to be anything special. It was only meant for occasional use with my laptop (which has an X-fi soundcard and sounded fine with my old speakers).
Unfortunately, the speakers sound awful. I would be upset if I paid 10 dollars. There is no depth to the sound and I have heard better sound quality from speakers that come free bundled with desktops. I wish I wasn't too lazy to return them, but alas, I am.
Amazing bang for the buck! August 20, 2010
kpg
We've been using these as our 'surround sound' system for our projector, and they provide amazing sound. Can't believe how cheap they were! Totally recommended..
Superb Sound! August 5, 2010
J. Palmer (Milwaukee, WI United States)
Wow. I just got the JBL Duet speakers and they're phenomenal. I have them hooked up to my iMac at work (took about 2 seconds to connect them), and I listen to music all day. The sound is full, rich, clear and vibrant. Exactly what I was looking for. I'm not a sound engineer by any stretch, but I do test the speakers in different ways. Every way the sound is terrific. I pull in XM radio online most of the day and the sound is superior. I switch to my iTunes if there is something specific I feel like listening to, and its terrific as well. But where I get the most out of them is listening to TV/radio commercial mixes. I'm in the ad business and we're constantly working on audio for new spots. I can decipher all the different tracks our engineer puts down, from music, voice to sound effects, and I'm able to evaluate them right at my desk. And at $37 for the pair, they are an incredible value.
5 stars on all counts for the JBL duet speakers. I highly recommend them.
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