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Edifier MP300 Plus 2.1 laptop speaker system

Awesome audio

That tubular aluminum sub-woofer produces a solid, punchy and tightly focused bass wholly devoid of overload rumble or resonant boom. The satellites manage the higher frequencies with aplomb. No matter what we played - and no matter how loud we played it; this thing can pump out some serious volume – we didn't even get a sniff of distortion or break-up.

In fact, such is the volume of the MP300 that you need to be careful you don't have it - and whatever noise making application you have running - set to maximum. When we inadvertently fired up the Runrig track Alba with the volume of our MP300, PC and iTunes all set to max, the cleaner had a heart attack, the office cat turned suddenly tartan and the windows blew out. OK, that's a slight exaggeration but you get the idea. It was a definite Maxell moment.

Edifier MP300 Plus 2.1 laptop speaker system

Testing caused a little disruption in the office

Thankfully, the MP300 comes with something called EIDC - Electric Intelligent Distortion Control, which, according to the user guide, “automatically adjusts and protects the system from input overload”, which is nice to know.

By way of a test, we listened to the best of Swedish electro-pop on Robyn's self-titled 2007 album, Bruckner's ninth and Rammstein's Mutter, all played though iTunes on a Dell Inspiron 1525 channeling the sound signal through a USB audio adaptor.

All three albums sounded rich and colorful, with plenty of detail. Even the second movement of the ninth - always a good way to separate the men from the boys, especially with the Vienna Phil. and Carlo Maria Giulini giving it an almost physical energy - thundered out clear and composed.

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