Treated my kids to a pair of these, £126.50 from Amazon, for their studio/bedroom, to replace their trusty Active Diamond 7.1s which are on their last legs.
Kids will be using them as monitor speakers for their music creation, but tell you what, if you've got e.g.: a laptop, not much money, but you want to get into HiFi sound, I reckon you could do FAR worse than go down this route. Excellent balanced sound, bi-amped with proper active crossovers (as opposed to being just powered speakers), easily go plenty loud enough. Strangely they have the air-ports at the back not the front, which is not very desirable for studio monitors because it makes them more position-dependent, but as hifi components, just shuffle them around on some 24" inch stands until you're sorted.
They also have jack inputs, XLR inputs, a switch to boost or cut the treble (not the bass, unusually), and an input trimmer, all of which IMO are best left in their zero positions.
Negative comments: none for the price, other that the fact they don't have grilles so their looks are not the last word in pleasing-aethetics.
Even plugged into e.g. an iPhone headphone jack, no [new] amp and speakers for this combined price will come close, even assuming you can find some. They've even got me looking at my Alesis 520USB speakers in a less than satisfied way, and they set me back nearly £200 some years ago.
Kids will be using them as monitor speakers for their music creation, but tell you what, if you've got e.g.: a laptop, not much money, but you want to get into HiFi sound, I reckon you could do FAR worse than go down this route. Excellent balanced sound, bi-amped with proper active crossovers (as opposed to being just powered speakers), easily go plenty loud enough. Strangely they have the air-ports at the back not the front, which is not very desirable for studio monitors because it makes them more position-dependent, but as hifi components, just shuffle them around on some 24" inch stands until you're sorted.
They also have jack inputs, XLR inputs, a switch to boost or cut the treble (not the bass, unusually), and an input trimmer, all of which IMO are best left in their zero positions.
Negative comments: none for the price, other that the fact they don't have grilles so their looks are not the last word in pleasing-aethetics.
Even plugged into e.g. an iPhone headphone jack, no [new] amp and speakers for this combined price will come close, even assuming you can find some. They've even got me looking at my Alesis 520USB speakers in a less than satisfied way, and they set me back nearly £200 some years ago.