Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I genuinely cannot understand how anyone who listens to music is giving these speakers anything beyond a single star. Here are my problems: 1) You can fiddle with the bass all you want, but that won't change the fact that the mid-range frequencies - which carry sounds like human vocals, guitar, and most piano and string instruments - are barely audible. And the frequencies that do come through are all jarbled together and impossible to distinguish. I get more clarity from an old $15 iPod dock, which is pretty pathetic. 2) The controls on the speaker are conveniently located in the back of the speaker. That means you have to physically pick up the speaker and turn it around (hard to do with multiple cables attached to it) to adjust the settings. 3) The speakers arrived with a horrific smell that filled my entire apartment in minutes. 4) The RCA cable included with my speakers makes a static sound when plugged into devices unless I twist it just right. AKA, the cable they sent me is actively defective. I'm a professional musician, and have been buying computer speakers mainly for music for 20 years. It is one of the only products that, somehow, seem to get worse over time. These speakers are a stunningly disappointing example of that phenomenon.