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'Creative Inspire T10i | 
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| Brand: Creative
Category: CE
Buy New: £29.29
New (17) from £29.29
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 257
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.7
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.1 x 7
MPN: 51MF1600AA001
Model: 51MF1600AA001
EAN: 5390660145605
ASIN: B000WQIKJ0
Release Date: October 3, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 5 Watts RMS per Speaker | | • | 80Hz ~ 20kHz Frequency Response | | • | BasXPort | | • | Tone and volume control | | • | Magnetically shielded |
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Product Description
The Inspire T10 2.0 loudspeakers from Creative are compact, stylish and loaded with technology to produce Hi-Fi sound for your computer applications. They use separate tweeters, precision drivers and BasXPort for rich tones and deep bass no matter what type of music you're listening to, all without needing a subwoofer.The Inspire T10 are equipped with separate volume and base controls, a magnetic shield and an auxiliary input for connecting to an external audio player.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
A Fantastic Pair May 4, 2008
djw211
I was in need of a cheap, portable and good quality pair of speakers (which meant no subwoofer)to replace those excuses for speakers you get in laptops. After a lot of trawling and swatting up i decided on these and i must say im very impressed. For under 30 the range is great and the built in bass port does compensate for not having a dedicated sub. Distortion is minimal and they will easily fill an average size room, great for listening to music and watching movies too. Top job amazon and very quick delivery on super saver!
Wow! April 22, 2008
Mr. John K. Wells (Devon, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was in a dilemma. Having recently bought a Sony flatscreen TV and was both impressed with the picture quality and appalled with the sound, something had to be done.. My first instinct was a cheapish micro Hi-Fi system with an aux in but the cabinet was of a limited size and I was a little dubious of too small speakers and whether it could deliver more than the TV. Next thought was along the lines of a small HiFi amp separate and some proven quality speakers. Short of lashing out three figures there seemed little in the way of solving it via this route. Then I stumbled across the reviews for these little babies... PC speakers? surely not. The consistent reviews seemed to say it all and I could tell from their descriptions that these were discerning folk. I chanced it therefore, hoping that these would suffice.
It would be no exaggeration to say that this was probably the best 30 I had spent in years!! They are, as the reviews say, FANTASTIC. The punchy, loud and hi quality sounds that come out of these things is quite frankly amazing..
One small caveat though and I really am being picky here. As one reviewer points out that they do sound best when positioned a little below the listener's ears. This is indeed true particularly with reference to the bottom end bass sound which does change significantly depending where you are sat in relation to them. This however, in my case, should prove easy to remedy by placing them in the lower section of the TV stand recess. Either that or elevating the sofa by about 1 foot in the air would make the best sound even better. I think I'll go for the former option..
If you're thinking of improving your flatscreen TV sound then buy these. You WON'T regret it! (and I'm a fussy devil!)
Wellsyboyred.
These speakers have enriched my life! April 16, 2008
turkey_baster
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Without boring you with the details, I lost the stereo in the divorce and my PC doesn't have a great speaker built in (think tin foil covered comb) so it wouldn't have taken much to improve my musical enjoyment.
Having a very limited income at the moment (it gets worse doesn't it?) I couldn't afford a new stereo and my room is too small (not a dry eye in the house) for a stereo anyway so I decided to venture into a thus far unexplored world of PC speakers.
For 30 I really wasn't expecting much. Especially with my luck of late (I'm doing it on purpose now). I've been blown away by these little creatives. The quality and depth of sound is staggering from such small units. I'm listening to the Beatle's 'revolver' album at the moment and it sounds incredible, I'm sure it didn't sound any better on the 150 stereo which I don't have any more. Yellow Submarine is of course still terrible but the speakers can't make up for the crime of letting Ringo near the microphone.
So back to the speakers. I'm no expert, but I am fussy and I do love my music. To me, the bass is well balanced, not too weak, nor overpowering. Its also 'crisp' (which is probably the wrong term), not all sludgy and horrid. The middle and treble is well defined and overall the sound is rich and rewarding. Power wise they're more than adequate to fill my (small) room, not losing any clarity at higher volumes. I am staggered.
I'm going to scrape together a meagre meal for 1 now, and smile while I do it knowing my little speakers will be waiting for me when I get back...
Value for money April 6, 2008
R. C. Maxwell (UK)
They're not going to compete with a good 'two satellites and subwoofer set-up' or top-end sytems, but for everyday listening (or watching films or tv programmes) on a pc (or stand-alone player) in an ordinary sized room they are very impressive, compact and extremely good value for the money. No separate amp is needed. There's no speaker balance control (left / right speaker), but this can be set-up on the pc or tv. My only very minor niggle is that they have little synthetic material labels on each side of the speaker (a bit like labels on clothing) that look really cheap and tacky, but they can be removed with a blade (used carefully!).
Yup, they're great! April 4, 2008
A. Mutimer (Essex, England)
If you have small room these speakers are superb, the build is *far* more solid than it should be for this money and this build quality underpins the excellent sound.
I expect you have read the reviews below and they are all pretty much bang on. The guy who says they need 2 hours running in is dead right. But even before you do that the speakers sound great! I have them in a very small room and they fill it perfectly. What is so nice is that the sound is not aggressive, the tweater has been selected to deliver a cool, gentle and, dare I say it, accurate sound. There is no "tizz" here, just nice, easy, level treble. The mid is open and catches guitars and vocals very nicely. And now comes the freaky bit, these speakers have bass. Yes these tiny little things kick out appreciable and solid bass! 10 years ago that was not possible, but speaker design in plastic has come a LONG way since then.
So the sound is really great for speakers of this size, but of course it is not perfect. The bass on these speakers is made possible by use of a port which is on the top of the speakers and this port is "tuned". Many manufacturers who use ports in this way make a mistake, they whack up the bass at about 80Hz and what you get is a kind of a continuous thump in time with the bass drum which at first is very exciting but which very quickly becomes very annoying - not so the T10s! Creative have seen past this error and limited the port to the point where the bass enhancement is proportionate subtle and satisfying. I find that incredible for a manufacturer selling very inexpensive computer speakers and my hat is off to Creative for doing it. Despite this the bass has a slighly detached feeling to it and you will need to mess around with your graphic eq. a bit to even things out.
So folks the build and the sound are great but I do want to report two shortcomings both of which, sadly, were entirely avoidable. First the connection wire between the two speakers is short at a bit over a metre. That means you will need an extention to get them anythiung like a decent width apart. A longer wire would have cost another 5 pence and creative should not have made the economy. Secondly, and unforgivably, there is no provision for wall-mounting! A simple M8/M10 blind hole on the back would have made these speakers perfect for attachement to very small bolt-fixed wall-mounts and cost nothing at all to make, but creative missed it. On speakers like these that will often be used as satellites that is a big mistake. As it is, if you want to wall mount them, they will have to be supported from beneath and that is going to mess up their otherwise very attractive appearance.
Buy em guys, and be very happy. Just reckon on some messing to get them far enough apart and fixed on the wall, if that is your plan. Despite this they get 5 stars for just being so bloody good. Well done Creative!
Regards
Adrian
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