Harman/Kardon SoundSticks II

The first thing anyone notices about these speakers is what they look like. That could be said about most things, but in the Soundsticks it's a massive feature. There is one cool designer at the Harman/Kardon studio, and they'll looks perfect sat next to your shiney new mac. Both the speakers and the sub are decievingly heavy, which is nice as you know they want slide around or be knocked over easily. The volume is controlled with two touch sensitive pads on the front of one speaker, and the bass know is on the sub, which can be a bit fiddily to adjust. Sound quality, is great. The sub works best in the corner of a room, but I can't help put mine on ...  Read the complete review

---Brief--- I bought these speakers to replace an old aiwa 2.1 system for my computer. The speakers looked the part and i wanted to buy something that could equal the sound of my hifi system. The reason for this being that i now store the majority of my music on my computer and rarely use my hifi system. Sorting through albums and songs on something such as media player, is far easier than sorting through a big pile of cd's and ending up in a mess! ---Sound--- The speakers are strongly built and very soild. They sounded a little stiff brand new, but from experience with other speakers i expected that. I ran them at low volume for few ...  Read the complete review