About Cyber-Acoustic CA-3080 Speakers…
My wife really loves JBL’s Creature speakers and has wanted a set for her iMac. Since she’s really into making music with her machine, she really needs some nice speakers. The Creature speakers sound pretty nice and look cool. My only gripe about them is they perform best at moderate volumes and can’t really crank up very much. I had a set I bought for my own iMac, but I had moved them to the Windows machine once we decided to move it into the guest room. Since the Windows machine had become primarily a gaming and entertainment station, I was content to give her the Creature speakers and see what I could find to replace the ones on the Windows machine without spending too much. Ideally, if I had to spend more than what I paid for the JBL’s, it made more sense to buy her a new pair of Creatures.
I took her across town to do some shopping at Coldwater Creek and then stopped by Microcenter after she was done. We wandered through and looked at their Macs and then stopped to listen to various speakers sets wired together in a bank. As we listened, I was particularly struck by speaker sets from Cyber-Acoustic. The company had flat panel speaker sets available at both the $19.95 and $29.95 price points, and they sounded as good as systems costing four times as much! After listening to a bunch of them, I decided to buy the $29.95 Cyber-Acoustic CA-3080.
I brought it home and set it up on my Windows machine. Near their highest volume setting, the speakers exhibit a hissing as the computer is booting. Turning the volume down a little mostly gets rid of the problem and doesn’t seem to affect the overall volume much. General sound and tone is as good as the JBL’s, though the bass is not quite as deep, and there is no way to adjust the amount of bass or treble as there is on the JBL’s. The on/off switch is on the front of the right speaker, very convenient compared to the on/off button in the rear of the Creature’s dome shaped subwoofer. The little subwoofer that comes with these speakers is not magnetically shielded so it must be located away from your monitor, but it’s small enough so that locating it on the floor is not a problem. The label ensuring you know this is a very nice touch. It’s apparent that even though I only spent $30 with them, Cyber-Acoustics wants me to come back.
Overall, the CA-3080 seems to be quite a bargain.
I took her across town to do some shopping at Coldwater Creek and then stopped by Microcenter after she was done. We wandered through and looked at their Macs and then stopped to listen to various speakers sets wired together in a bank. As we listened, I was particularly struck by speaker sets from Cyber-Acoustic. The company had flat panel speaker sets available at both the $19.95 and $29.95 price points, and they sounded as good as systems costing four times as much! After listening to a bunch of them, I decided to buy the $29.95 Cyber-Acoustic CA-3080.
I brought it home and set it up on my Windows machine. Near their highest volume setting, the speakers exhibit a hissing as the computer is booting. Turning the volume down a little mostly gets rid of the problem and doesn’t seem to affect the overall volume much. General sound and tone is as good as the JBL’s, though the bass is not quite as deep, and there is no way to adjust the amount of bass or treble as there is on the JBL’s. The on/off switch is on the front of the right speaker, very convenient compared to the on/off button in the rear of the Creature’s dome shaped subwoofer. The little subwoofer that comes with these speakers is not magnetically shielded so it must be located away from your monitor, but it’s small enough so that locating it on the floor is not a problem. The label ensuring you know this is a very nice touch. It’s apparent that even though I only spent $30 with them, Cyber-Acoustics wants me to come back.
Overall, the CA-3080 seems to be quite a bargain.
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