Amazon.com: Customer reviews: VIBE VS-521-SW Subwoofer Speaker System (Black)

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2016

no problems works well

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Frank Kowalski

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2013

These speakers are the same size as the Gearhead brands, (subwoofer about 4 inches), but the Gearhead brands cost $20.00. These are generally $10.00, so for a cheap set of speakers, I would steer you in this direction. However....Limitless Creations X643 is $29.99 for a better sound, and Cyber Acoustics model 3550 is altogether about $40.00 and sounds wonderful! Cyber Acoustics CA-3488 should also be considered. CA-3550 are much bigger, so you have to have the room. Insignia brand PCS21 for $20.00 sound has much much better bass than a Vibe, or Gearhead, but not a X643 or CA-3550. The Insignias sound great, but the plugs are cheap and break, and to top it off, if they break inside your computer jacks you have a huge headache, so beware! Hope this helps your decision.

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Frank Kowalski

Good value? Read below....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2013

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A. Keen

You are being warned

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2015

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Ouch. Should have looked at the reviews before I bought these. Tried on two computers in my household and neither worked. The power cord is short so you a limited where you can place the speakers. Ditto on the wire to the 3.5mm plug. Unless you are someone who likes root canals, skip this one.

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David Sullivan

Dont buy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2015

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Do not but my phone alone is louder. Waste of money.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2016

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no problems works well

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Speakers of broken dreams.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2013

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My fiancee bought this for me as a Christmas gift. We were both so happy, being poor, to have found something he could afford.
I plugged it in, and my phone has a better speaker system than this thing does. Why does it have a "subwoofer?" there's no bass, and the treble is tinny and distorted.

I was using a JBL Creature, for so so many years, and replaced it with this when the right speaker died.

I'm going to put the JBL back now. Even missing a speaker, there is far more depth to the sound than this thing has.
The cords to the speakers are also so short that they have to go behind my monitors, on their sides.

Honestly, why even bother? Better to go with onboard sound than this. :p

And now I feel guilty about returning my fiancee's gift. So, thanks for that.

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Teleosus

Not Worth It,... Even For $.99

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2013

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First, they are not stereo; second,they sound horrible; third, the manufacturing quality is shoddy.
I bought this cheap set specifically because I wanted to take it apart and use the amp portion for a simple speaker system. After listening to them, terrible sound, I took it apart. I noticed the volume control was not fully soldered to the circuit board. The circuit board has a lot of unused places on it, as if someone had changed their mind and left out the rest of the circuit. The amp is a 1 watt stereo IC but the line input is combined at the stereo input plug making all signals mono.
After repairing a few things I found on the unit, it still sounds like crap. Do yourself a favor spend at least $25 i.e. Logitech LS21 2.1 Stereo Speaker System 2.1

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