Review on 💻 Black Creative GigaWorks T40 Series II Multimedia Speaker System with BasXPort Technology - 2.0 for Enhanced Multimedia Experience by James Parker

I wish I'd paid more attention to the minority of poorly rated reviews that clearly identified the problem. For your purposes this may not be a problem, in which case you can consider them 5-star speakers. So I'll start with the good points: they have great sound quality for the price. The front headphone connection is practical. The bass/treble controls work well. The stands on the bottom make them fairly stable but take up quite a bit of space (my cat loves to tip things over but they stay put). And then a fatal error: There is an optional and very poorly implemented energy saving function. The speakers turn off if they don't receive a signal for a while. Then when they receive a signal they turn back on, but with a delay of about 4 seconds before you hear a tone. This leads to an annoyance and a big problem. You'll miss the first few seconds of a song or video you're watching when the speakers are in silent mode, which is annoying. The big problem is that you miss notification tones. Working from home and getting pinged by a co-worker? Received important mail? Bad, no sound. I usually try to select devices with power saving features, but this one is just lazy and there is no way to turn it off. I got them by the way because I already have another pair of similar, slightly smaller creatives. Speaker. They are very good and don't have the same error: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B001RNOHDU/. But they don't have a stand at the bottom. These are the ones my cat keeps tipping over, but even after dozens of falls, they still work perfectly.