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Voix MPX 2.1 tower loudspeakers
In-spire-ing sound quality?
The speakers have a high build quality so you'd expect a decent performance. The aluminium cone drivers, partnered by neodymium magnets, produce very accurate sound and quick response times, particularly at high frequencies.
So everything about these products suggests they have been manufactured and tuned to deliver good sound for pop and dance music, so Status Quo’s Caroline gave us a chance to work out whether the speakers were more than a one-trick pony.
The speakers have to be mounted on cone-shaped, sub-woofer equipped bases
Sure enough, the sound is pretty good, with adequate punch, accuracy and layering to bring out the best of Rossi and Parfit’s blues juggernaught. Something completely different - a few tracks from the Orb’s Adventures Beyond Ultra World - confirmed what we had suspected: that the speakers are most at home when dealing with bass-heavy, quicker tracks yet with plenty of high frequencies for the unit to get its teeth into.
We have one reservation, however. The sweet spot is tight, so set up is very important. Sitting even a little off axis allows one speaker to dominate, with the effect being most noticeable if you edge towards the MPX.
Connectors and spaghetti a-plenty
Also we found that the equaliser setting on some portable players could introduce distortion in the playback, so it's best to stick to a 'normal' EQ instead of anything too esoteric. In addition, to get the best results, follow the manufacturer’s recommendation and keep any portable player’s volume at no more that 70 per cent and let the unit handle higher volumes.