Philips MMS 430

I connected this system to our Audigy 2 Platinum sound card and tested it using our test sound tracks ranging over different genres, DVD clips and game demos. Like its elder bro, the highs were excellent and higher mids were pretty decent too. However, the reproduction of lower mids was poor and lacked depth. Certain spectrums of low frequencies sounded a little muddled. The subwoofer gave an impression of being powerful, but the bass lacked tightness. As I like to put it, it had more of boom than thump. The subwoofer volume needs to be set around 60% to 70%. Anything beyond that invites a lot of distortion in sound. However, the master volume can easily be cranked up to ...