Corsair SP2500 2.1 Gaming Speakers Review @ Techgage

Wait!?! what? Corsair is making speaker systems now?  It might be hard to believe but Corsair has been branching out in an attempt to expand their product line and diversify the portfolio. 

I did get an introduction to these speakers at CES and while the display demo sounded great it wasn't until I started talking with them about actual speaker specs and design that I realized Corsair had done their homework.  Sadly doing your homework is sometimes only part of the story.

With the launch of its HS1 headset last fall, Corsair proved that the audio market wasn't one it was planning on jumping into without first making sure that its products would impress. But what about those gamers that don't like to use headphones? The answer is the SP2500, a speaker set with a unique design, and a lot of power.

Do check out the review at Techgage while I finish up this news post with a little rant of my own.

The one thing that Corsair did that really disgusted me was when they called their subwoofer system a "4th order".  Anyone that knows anything about speaker box design knows that "4th order" was a marketing term created in the early days of car audio (I believe by MTX) to describe the more technical term of "Single Reflex Bandpass"  Ie a subwoofer placed in an enclosure where the back of the speaker is sealed (with a tuned volume) and the front of the speaker is facing another sealed enclosure with a tuned vent.

The reason for this is simply to tune the subwoofer to a certain frequency and make that limited range very efficient.  Sadly the problem associated with this kind of enclosure design is limited bass response due to the non-tuned frequencies being muffled and basically filtered out.  Yes you get hard hitting bass but not fluid base response. 

Then again it is more about what the end result, and it would seem this is what Corsair bought in to.

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