Creative Pebble Plus 2.1 USB-Powered Desktop Speakers with Powerful Down-Firing Subwoofer and Far-Field Drivers, Up to 8W RMS Total Power for Computer PCs and Laptops (Black)

I wrote a pretty positive review a few days after getting these, but as I've lived with them a little longer and really thought about it, I'm not as happy with my purchase. If you're looking for speakers that are clear and just want something with good volume and clarity, these are great. They are decent enough and have *some* bass to them. Read below if you plan to listen to music and care what that experience is like. I do suggest scrolling down to the bottom where I've added pros and cons.Every review you see of these sings their praises. Don't get me wrong, they sound "good". Certainly better than the extra-tinny, clearly "there-so-they-could-put-another-feature-on-the-box", sad excuse for speakers that came built into my monitor. But they aren't great. Just good. For $50, I think I could have found better. Speakers have come a long way in the past decade. Your run of the mills bluetooth speaker in the flavor-of-the-week isle at Aldi has passive base reflex and have good bass response. These do not.The little woofer is more of a mid-range speaker with the two satellite speakers acting as tweeters. The sub does not thump or boom. It does a decent job filling out the sound, but there's no wow factor and deeper notes are lost completely. And I'm not even talking about edge cases. I like a song called "Daylight" by Watchhouse. It's a folky countryish song. So it has that classic BUMM bumm BUMM bumm bass line that many folky and country songs have. While these speakers play it, it's subtle to the point that you notice and miss it.Another thing that annoys me more than I thought it would, is that there is a good 4 second delay between the moment you turn on the speakers to the time any sound comes out. This seems minor, but I work from home and listen to music while I work. I get frequent work calls and since I'm logged into a remote computer, cannot easily mute the music with the computer, so I turn the speakers off. Maybe I'm being a bit nit-picky, but waiting for the music to start playing so I can set the volume drives me nuts.PROS* Look good* Clear sound* Good volume* Not "fake bassy" like many cheaper speakers (not muffled or muddy sounding)CONS* Utter lack of real low end* 4 second delay from the time they are turned on to the time they start playing audio* Wires are *just* long enough to reach from the top of a desk to a computer on the floor directly below. If you have a non-standard setup, you may need to get a headphone extension cable

No complaints from me so far, owned it for two months and not a single issue, it does come with a lot of wires so it can be a bit of mess if you can’t cable manage well. Bass is great and Musi is overall very nice. Base box is not too large either

While the price to performance ratio of this item is essentially unbeatable, giving you a subwoofer and speaker combo for an incredible price, I am a bit disappointed with the limited cable options. As in, there are none.The two pebble speakers themselves are hard-wired together and cannot be disconnected or extended, meaning that, with how small the cable size is, they will only be able to fully wrap around 1 monitor. If you want to run a dual monitor (or more) setup, one of the pebbles will have to be partially obscuring the screen since it just lacks the couple extra inches needed to wrap all the way around such a setup. I don't understand why they made the cables so short and also have hard-wired them in with no options. It's a baffling choice to me when the subwoofer's cable IS longer and can be disconnected.The audio quality is good, but not great; it does all it can be being so small and sleek, but there is of course a limit to what can be achieved with such small hardware. If you're expecting this to compete with a full-sized soundbar+subwoofer or surround-sound setup, don't. It can't and that isn't really its purpose.What it can do is be easy to setup (for single-monitor setups), easy to connect thanks to its USB power enabling the back of most PCs to both power it and output audio, and provide good quality sound for an unbeatable price. Don't expect the world, but if you have $50, want the best bang for your buck, and are OK with a couple limitations, this can't be beaten for that use case.

These speakers are pretty good! The sound quality is pretty solid for the price, and the added passive subwoofer is a nice touch. They get fairly loud for their size, and look really cool on your desk. The bronze-on-black reminds me of the classic Klipsch styling, which always looks sleek. I actually caught a painted version of these in the background of Jenna Ortega's dorm in Beetlejuice Bettlejuice which was cool to see, so set designers seemingly like the look too.I bought these as a gift for my girlfriend who had only been using headphones, and she's a fan. While I haven't been the main one using them to really test them out, they sound good to my ears and are definitely good enough for her needs. As somebody who does live sound for my job, I would personally buy something a bit bigger/louder, but for the average user who just wants to watch YouTube and play some games, these work perfectly fine.The subwoofer definitely won't blow you away (it doesn't even have a volume knob), but it does really help to fill out the lower-end of the sound. Just be careful where you put it - put on some bass-heavy music when you're setting it up and move it around to a few different spots and see where it's the loudest. It seems like it gets the loudest in corners, but it'll vary with your room design and floor materials.The cables connecting the speakers could be a bit longer to space them out, but they work for most standard desk setups. I just wish I had more to work with in terms of cable management, but it's not that big of a deal.Otherwise, they're really simple to set up and get running, it's pretty much plug-and-play.My one complaint is that they do not have an integrated headphone jack on the front of the speaker like some others I've used. I had to purchase a 1/8" splitter to have headphones and speakers simultaneously hooked up, which was a cheap fix, but an additional jack would be convenient.Overall, these are really nice computer speakers for the price. Yes, there are plenty of cheaper ones, but if you want some that are small and look nice without compromising on sound quality, these are a great choice.