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Guide [SHOWDOWN] The Best Budget Speaker, For under RM 50 category

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TSKeyMochi
post Jan 10 2015, 07:42 PM, updated 10y ago

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Welcome to KeyMochi's tech showdown where every gadget that I put in the tech arena will fight to death to win The Best Piece of Technology title in their own class. So today I'm going to put 5 budget speakers and they all cost under RM 50. Let the showdown begin!

Sonic Gear Quatro 2

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This bad boy is just like other typical small speaker. It's ideal to replace your on the edge laptop speaker or simply to play your horrible songs you've been loop for 1000 times. It has a volume slider along with the cable. It is USB-powered so you can plug it to your PC/laptop and give it some noise. The main highlight for this bad boy is it has quad bass. For a price under RM50 this thing really takes the cake. As for the loudness, the speaker sure shouts loud enough without turning the volume too high. Be careful though. Since it's a budget speaker don't push it too far.

Pros:-

+Quad bass
+Nice and sleek design
+Loud

Cons:-
-Surface gets dirty easily


Price: RM 25

Logitech Z120

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Logitech is popular known for their quality products even for a budget speaker like this. It is also USB-powered and it has a separate volume control which also function as ON/OFF switch. One thing that I love about this bad boy is the cable management at the back of each speaker.

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This makes cable management a lot easier and your table will be cable-cluttered-free As for the sound quality, it's almost the same as Sonic Gear Quatro 2 except it doesn't have quad bass and the loudness is a bit disappointing. Its price also a little bit expensive. My advice. If you don't care about the bass and loudness too much or you're just a typical Logitech fanboy/fangirl, this one is worth it.

Pros:-

+Cable management
+2 in 1 volume control and ON/OFF switch
+Nice and sleek design

Cons:-

-No bass
-Not loud enough


Price: RM 49

Edifier M1250

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Edifier never never (yes I said never 2 times) impress their fans with their audio devices. They also one of the famous audio specialist brand who never compromise their products even the cheap ones. This one for example. If we look at the design it's just plain looking. The sound quality? +1 to that. The sound produce is crystal clear and it also has some bass. One thing that I notice at their right speaker is it has a headphone jack on it. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Headphone jack? OMG Edifier what is this for? It's completely useless. Hold your horses guys. Let's say if you're too lazy to unplug the speaker to use your headphone? Edifier is finally understand that you're too lazy to unplug the speaker and put a headphone jack on it. It also act as an extender to your headphone jack. Thanks based Edifier for helping these lazy bums with their complicated lives. Ohh before I forgot it's also USB-powered so don't worry. Plug it in freely.

Pros:-

+Headphone jack
+Premium quality sound

Cons:-
-Outdated design (LOL)


Price: RM 39

Iris-02

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Ok seriously I never heard of this product but for the sake of this showdown, fine. Surprisingly the design is quite attractive. Another shocking founding is the sound quality is almost identical to Edifier M1250 except this one doesn't have bass at all. This device is also USB-powered but here's the bad news. The volume controller is so stupid that I barely can change the volume. I have to use both hands to adjust the volume. Can you imagine how hard it is to use BOTH HANDS just to adjust the volume? Sigh....

Pros:-

+Nice and sleek design
+Good sound quality
+Lightweight

Cons:-

-Stupid volume controller
-No bass


Price: RM 30

Genius SP-A110

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Hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. This speaker is a joke, seriously. The sound quality is bad. Also, ALSO. This is the best part. IT USES 2-PIN AC PLUG!!! Look at this

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I'm not joking when I said this speaker is a joke. Although like that, if you really desperate in need of a very very very (3 times. You heard it right) cheap speaker, just take this.

Pros:-
+***UNDEFINED***

Cons:-
-Horrible sound quality
-Not USB-powered
-Expensive for this kind of speaker

Price: RM 29

The Best Piece of Technology

The award goes to...

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Congrats to Sonic Gear Quatro 2

Don't let the price fool you. Although it's very cheap but the quality is still superb. I like on how Sonic Gear still manage to squeeze quad bass in this small speaker. It also has a nice design too. Just one thing, I don't like how the speaker easily get dirty but I'll let it slide for now because it's cleanable. Kudos Sonic Gear rclxms.gif thumbup.gif
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post Jan 10 2015, 07:45 PM

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thumbup.gif informative review
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post Jan 10 2015, 07:48 PM

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any review units for sale? hha

TSKeyMochi
post Jan 10 2015, 07:52 PM

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QUOTE(mad093dean @ Jan 10 2015, 07:45 PM)
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post Jan 10 2015, 07:53 PM

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where u buy that quatro?
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post Jan 10 2015, 07:54 PM

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QUOTE(fivesouls @ Jan 10 2015, 07:53 PM)
where u buy that quatro?
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Sri Computer, Plaza Lowyat
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post Jan 10 2015, 07:56 PM

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QUOTE(DouchebegTan @ Jan 10 2015, 07:48 PM)
any review units for sale? hha
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I'll see what I can do tongue.gif
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post Jan 10 2015, 08:02 PM

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Whaaaaaaat? That audio jack on edifier is the most useful thing they put. I use it more often than volume knob. Imagine u speaker on desk and casing at bottom. Where u rather plug it?
Just my 2 cent. Nice review. +1 for Edifier M2150.
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post Jan 10 2015, 08:03 PM

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can you make chromecast-like gadget showdown? planning to get one.. tongue.gif
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post Jan 10 2015, 08:06 PM

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QUOTE(peja5081 @ Jan 10 2015, 08:02 PM)
Whaaaaaaat? That audio jack on edifier is the most useful thing they put. I use it more often than volume knob. Imagine u speaker on desk and casing at bottom. Where u rather plug it?
Just my 2 cent. Nice review. +1 for Edifier M2150.
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Haha bro I did mention that headphone jack on it is good. The first statement is just a joke tongue.gif
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post Jan 10 2015, 08:07 PM

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QUOTE(piupiupiu @ Jan 10 2015, 08:03 PM)
can you make chromecast-like gadget showdown? planning to get one.. tongue.gif
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post Jan 11 2015, 01:44 AM

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QUOTE(KeyMochi @ Jan 10 2015, 07:56 PM)
I'll see what I can do tongue.gif
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i need dem quatro smile.gif nudge nudge *puts 20 bucks in your pocket*
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post Jan 11 2015, 04:43 AM

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that's are really really nice pictures you shared.Thanks a lot
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post Jan 11 2015, 02:21 PM

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QUOTE(kamkaran @ Jan 11 2015, 04:43 AM)
that's are really really nice pictures you shared.Thanks a lot
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It's not that nice though especially Edifier. I only noticed the blur once I uploaded the pics into my image hosting site. Will try to get a better camera in the future. Thanks for the compliment though smile.gif
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post Jan 11 2015, 10:24 PM

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I vouch for the Quatro 2. Tested it myself.

http://www.goldfries.com/hardware-reviews/...speaker-review/

What KeyMochi didn't tell you guys is that this RM 25 speaker does output decent levels of mid-tones and some bass which is usually not found on budget speakers.

You know how budget speakers can be, some terrible treble and generally hollow sounding. biggrin.gif
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post Jan 11 2015, 11:38 PM

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Looking at how short the cable is on the quattro, i think it is made for notebooks rather than desktops. Doesn't make sense if the volume control lies midway through the table.
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post Jan 12 2015, 12:39 AM

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Small desktop area would be ok, like say one end of the monitor to another.
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post Jan 12 2015, 03:32 AM

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QUOTE(goldfries @ Jan 11 2015, 10:24 PM)
I vouch for the Quatro 2. Tested it myself.

http://www.goldfries.com/hardware-reviews/...speaker-review/

What KeyMochi didn't tell you guys is that this RM 25 speaker does output decent levels of mid-tones and some bass which is usually not found on budget speakers.

You know how budget speakers can be, some terrible treble and generally hollow sounding. biggrin.gif
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Thanks for the clarification. Missed that part tongue.gif
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post Jan 12 2015, 03:39 AM

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Both our findings back-up each other. biggrin.gif

I'm blown away by the quality of Quatro 2. Build quality nothing special but sound is really outstanding for something at RM 25.
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post Jan 12 2015, 03:51 AM

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QUOTE(goldfries @ Jan 12 2015, 03:39 AM)
Both our findings back-up each other. biggrin.gif

I'm blown away by the quality of Quatro 2. Build quality nothing special but sound is really outstanding for something at RM 25.
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Yeah I was very skeptical at first. They really did a great job on Quatro 2 rclxms.gif

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