Product Description

GigaWorks T40 stereo speakers will fascinate you with their impressive audio delivery. Combining premium components with Creative's many years of leadership in world-class audio, each satellite delivers spacious, balanced sound, thanks to the potent combination of two high-performance midrange drivers and a dedicated high-end tweeter in MTM (midrange-tweeter-midrange) configuration, plus BasXPort technology for strong, dynamic bass without a subwoofer. The midrange drivers have woven glass fiber cones for warmth and stability, while each tweeter has a cloth dome for crystal clarity. Front mounted controls for power, volume, bass and treble, plus a versatile adaptor, made these speakers great partners for DVD players and televisions as well as PCs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #903 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: 51MF1585AA001
• Original language: English, French
• Dimensions: 12.90" h x 6.10" w x 10.40" l, 11.24 pounds

Features

• Product Type - Speaker
• Localization - Eng/Fr
• System Components - 2.0 Speaker System
• - Dual woven glass fiber cone
• - Cloth dome tweeter

From the Manufacturer

"If you're obsessive about music and movies, these compact speakers deliver audio that rivals most entry-level 5.1 setups." -- Computer Shopper

"With powerful bass and crisp audio, Creative's Gigaworks T40 redefines what small speaker systems are capable of." -- Computer Shopper

Professionally designed full-range speaker system for acoustic audio performance and bass

Redefine your audio listening experience with the Creative GigaWorks T40. This new class of performance desktop speakers features a three-driver design for audiophile-like audio that injects new life to your desktop music-listening experience. Like the GigaWorks T20 the Creative GigaWorks T40 features the same hallmark of quality the GigaWorks series of speakers is well-known for--guaranteeing you a rich and defined performance. The GigaWorks T40 features Midrange-Tweeter-Midrange (MTM) driver configuration that improves the overall audio balance with deeper and richer bass effects, giving you music that sounds fuller, warmer in tone and closer to the original audio.

With quality components, such as the dual woven glass fiber cone driver, the cloth dome tweeters, BasXPort technology and the convenient control and entertainment extension, the GigaWorks T40 truly delivers its promise of acoustic audio quality with a style that complements any setup.

	Desktop power redefined Trendy and elegant, this 2.0 designer speaker system is slim and compact even to put on your desktop! With its distinctive industrial aura design, this is one classy speaker system you won't want to hide under your table.
	Listen to the detail The new Midrange-Tweeter-Midrange (MTM) audiophile design delivers smoother performance for your enjoyment. Create the audiophile experience at your desktop today.
	Dual woven glass fiber cone Experience natural and accurate lower frequency response with all your music.
	Cloth dome tweeter Enjoy clear, accurate highs. The cloth design provides better resistance to humidity and temperature changes.
	BasXPort The BasXPort is acoustically engineered to enhance the lower range by efficiently channelling sound waves from the inner chamber to the soundstage.
	Convenient access Get the bass, treble and volume you want with the easily manoeuvred controls.
	Hear it on the big screen Connect the speaker system to your TV or gaming console and enjoy solid audio entertainment.

Customer Reviews

Fair
These are ok speakers but they can't come close to others that have a bass unit. I was given a Altec with a bass and was surprise to find the quality difference. Once you use the quality type you cant go back to the others...

Great speakers!
After doing some research on speakers that were not too bulky I bought these for my home PowerMac, to listen to iTunes and such. They are great! A few weeks later I bought another pair to replace an again pair of generic speakers for my PC at work. Great value for the money!

Pretty dern good, for the size.
My four-star rating is an average between 4.5 stars for the physical package, which is solid, good-looking and relatively compact, and 3.5 stars for sound quality, which is pretty dern good but leaves a little to be desired.

Initially, I wasn't too happy with the sound coming out of these speakers, though it was wildly better than from the cheap Radio Shack speakers they replaced. The T40's sounded boxy, seemed deficient in the bass end, and a bit shrill in the high range. I went to work with the graphic equalizer packaged with my Creative Labs notebook sound card, and managed to trim them out so they sounded quite impressive, depending greatly on the program material of course.

I tried a lot of different music, from rock to organ to classical chamber music, adjusting the graphic equalizer for what sounded like reasonable balance amongst the lot.

Then I connected a test oscillator to the input of the sound board and swept through the audible range, adjusting the equalizer so that the subjective sound output from the speakers was constant over the whole range. At age 64, my hearing is good up to about 8 Khz. Above that, no guarantees.

For the technically inclined, here are the equalizer settings I settled on:

31 Hz = +9.7 db
62 Hz = +5 db
125 Hz = -2.7 db
250 Hz = -5.9 db
500 Hz = -3.2 db
1000 Hz = -0.5 db
2000 Hz = -3.4 db
4000 Hz = -2.5 db
8000 Hz = 0 db
16KHz = 0 db

These settings agreed very closely with the settings I'd made with music. The boxy sound is due to a resonance at around 250 Hz. Because of the small size of the speakers, the bass response drops off rapidly below 100 Hz, hence the big boost at the lower ranges. The speakers respond reasonably well to 48 Hz, but below that there's hardly any output, even with the large, nearly 10db boost from the equalizer.

Of course, individual tastes and the sound qualities of the room have a tremendous effect on subjective sound perception, as do differences in the way individual music is recorded. Still, I believe the settings above are a good starting point if you want to get reasonably good sound from these small speakers. For their compact size and moderate cost I can heartily recommend them.