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Klipsch - ProMedia 2.1 Speaker System (3-Piece) - Black

Use this Klipsch ProMedia 3-piece speaker system to enjoy brilliant sound when playing games, listening to music or watching videos on your computer.

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Great Sound, So So Features and Not Green!

on February 17, 2011

Posted by: STCBBreviewer

from St.Cloud,MN

I have owned these speakers for only a month and they sound great! Very impressed with the sound quality. A bit boomy at first, but I just turned the subwoofer volume down to my liking.

They have very good timbre (accurate tonal quality) for the price. They are $100 less than the Bose 2.1 system and IMHO they sound better too.

They sound the best with both volume controls on the right satellite speaker set to just below the suggested level indicator on the subwoofer volume control. Then I control the volume with the computer system volume controls (I have a remote volume control and mute button on my keyboard) Leaving the volume controls alone on the speakers should increase the life of the controls and avoid having some of the problems others are having with them.

I noticed no power on/off control on these so I assumed they included an automatic standby like most home theater subwoofers. Very cool, right?

Well, only if that was the case, but it is not. It appears Klipsch reduced their mfg. costs by eliminating the power switch and the external replaceable fuse so the system is now continuously on when plugged in with the green LED on the right satellite speaker illuminated. I decided to see just how much power is being consumed when these are plugged in so I hooked up to my watt meter and verified that the system does not shut down (monitored for 10 minutes) into low power standby as Derek Schultz of their tech product support team had told me "less than 1 Watt",(http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/p/134547/1363910.aspx) rather the system continuously consumes approx. 30 watts! At 8 cents per kW/h this $1.75 per month wasted electricity.

With all the "Green" hype lately this is very disappointing!

If you use a power strip to shut these down, not a problem.

Meanwhile I'll keep enjoying their great sound!

What's great about it: Sound more expensive than they are!

What's not so great: No automatic low power standby or on/off switching

I would recommend this to a friend!

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