Review on Edifier R1280T Active Bookshelf Speakers - 2.0 Stereo Near Field Monitors - Wooden Enclosure - 42 Watts RMS - Ideal for Studio Monitoring by Virot Phumsiri ᠌

They look prettier in the photo - like themes with wood, in fact, the top of the speakers and the grids are light silver - see the real sample if you choose by design. In terms of quality, I think the speakers are overrated. After SVEN SPS-820 with a subwoofer, which costs 1.5-2 times cheaper than these, the sound here seems somehow "flat", not alive. In addition, the bass is not even felt if you unscrew the bass knob to the full. Ordinary speakers without a subwoofer from a 20-year-old Sony tape recorder, IMHO, play deeper and more beautifully, especially the bottoms, and the singing is clearer there. Mids and highs play well. The cables are of poor quality - thin, the plug in the laptop creates a crack at the slightest wiggle of the wire (I immediately replaced it with my high-quality cable and the problem disappeared). The volume control does not have a lock in the extreme positions, so it is impossible to even roughly estimate what volume the amplifier is set to (to understand this, you will first have to turn the volume to full, which is not acceptable everywhere). A big plus for me after sven is that in the absence of sound, background noise at low and medium volumes is almost inaudible, although it appears if the volume is above average, and is quite well heard at full volume. In fairness, it must be said that Sven had much more problems - although he played the bottoms vividly, he didn’t have tops in principle, in silence he had such annoying background noise from both the sub and satellites that he had to pull him out from the outlet, when I wasn’t listening to music, well, it took up a lot of space, but there is very little of it, which is why I now bought only 2 boxes instead of three. In principle, this thing will fit like computer speakers, but, to be honest, after rave reviews on the Internet, I expected a better sound for the money. There is also the level of conventional speakers, which can be bought at half the price. For 3 thousand, they could at least add a headphone output and balance adjustment, but there are no features other than an unnecessary remote control . IMHO, such speakers should cost half as much.