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

Name: Edifier R1280T Active Bookshelf Speakers - 2.0 Stereo Near Field Monitors - Wooden Enclosure - 42 Watts RMS - Ideal for Studio Monitoring
Item: Edifier R1280T Active Bookshelf Speakers - 2.0 Stereo Near Field Monitors - Wooden Enclosure - 42 Watts RMS - Ideal for Studio Monitoring
Rating: 4

October 17, 2022

The product is of good quality, there is only one minor defect.

If you are a fan of bass, not so that the windows ring, and not so that it thumps, namely, normal, deep, clear bass, without thumping and without panes flying out of the windows - you need to look for another speaker system. I chose between the Edifier 1290 and 1700, but since the woofers are the same size there, I took a slightly cheaper version to check, because I could not believe in the bass (as some colorfully describe it here). In fact, it was not there, and therefore it is unlikely to be in the Edifier 1700 - nevertheless, the size of the speaker plays an important role here.
Bottom line - if you just need small speakers for your TV and computer, without pretensions to deep bass - they will do it quite well. If clear and deep low frequencies are important, you need to look for other speakers. Or buy a separate subwoofer for them.

Pros

Not expensive, in general they play normally, but there are no revelations.

Cons

Bass - I don’t know who writes that there is a lot of bass or enough, I don’t know who resonates with the bass of these speakers, but there is almost no bass in them. More precisely, it is weak and strongly raised (under 100-125Hz), because it is more of a thump than a bass. In principle, it is foolish to expect more from such small speakers (and there are really tiny ones). For comparison - I have a microlab solo2, there were microlab pro 3 - these are, of course, larger speakers with a large speaker - but there is something similar to bass. Well, the complete cable is terrible or I have a defective one, every time you touch it, the speakers "grunt".