I just picked up the JBL Creature II 3-Piece Powered Speaker System from a local CompUSA which had a 20% coupon for the item. Although it’s made for the Macintosh PC, it will work with any system with a stereo out!

The packaging it comes in is completely sparse–just the necessary wires, a phono to micro converter, the two 8 Watt tweeters, a power supply, and the 4″ 24 Watt subwoofer. It sounds good and generally clear from a home user perspective, and definitely can get loud, but listening carefully to the sub with the bass up you can hear a whoomping sucking sound of a speaker inside some kind of strange container sucking too much air through. Another odd quirk is the touch volume control, which is hard to adjust and hard to get used to.

Those points aside, it’s far, far better than the laptop speakers I have, earbuds, or the little travel speakers my ex bought me for my birthday. These are JBL speakers inside Harmon packaging, and for $70 they really sing.

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