Acoustic Solutions DS133

Author's product rating:   

Sound Quality	Good
Bass Quality	Good
Treble Quality	Good
Look & Design	Excellent
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	good sound quality, cheap, durable
Disadvantages:	default rear speaker volume is low

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

A friend of mine origianlly brought this 5.1 system from Argos for around £60 a good few years ago now. He purchased some better speakers and sold these ones to me for £30, i am have had them just over a year now and am very pleased with them.

There are 5 speakers and one bass cabinet.
Bass cabinet size (W)27, (H)17, (D)32cm.
Speakers size (W)11.5, (H)15.5, (D)8cm.

The speakers can either be used in 5.1 or 2.1 and has a little switch at the back of the box to toggle between the two modes. The speakers are connected with normal speaker wire, the positive wires have a black stripe along them. The speaker wires plug into the back of the box and all of the connections are colour coded and labelled. The speakers are also colour coded. You are supplied with leads to connect using 5.1 or 2.1. It has a 60 watt RMS output

The instruction manual is easy to understand and has diagrams of where to put all of your speakers around the room and how to connect all of the wires up.

I have the speakers connected to my 5.1 card on my computer and mainly use it for music, the subwoofer gives good clean bass untill you turn it up extreemly loud and it does sound quite distorted. The speakers sound good, there is no crackling when they are idle or when sound is playing. I only use the 5.1 surround sound feature when playing games, it is brilliant to play games on 5.1 because you can hear which direction everything is coming from, i think these are perfect for use with a computer as they are quite cheap and give good sound quality.

On the front of the subwoofer box there is 4 volume controls, Master, Bass, Center and rear. I find that the default volume for the rear speakers is too low and i have to turn them up everytime i turn the speakers on.

The speakers look very nice they are silver withthe "as" logo at the bottom, they have the two clips on the back for the positive and negative speaker wires and a hole so you can put them on a screw in the wall, they also have little rubber feet so they can be stood on a surface rather than on the wall.

The remote control is about 12cm long 4 cm wide and 2.5cm thick, it is black. It has 4 buttons, master volume up and down, and bass volume up and down. I think it would be really useful to have center and rear speaker volumes on the remote aswell to save you gettin up and pressing the buttons on the subwoofer box.

They are very durable, i have taken the whole set out of my room and taken them round a mates house many times, i am forever knocking the speakers off of the table and kicking the subwoofer box (by accident) and it still functions as well as it did the day it was brand new.

This is a very good set of 5.1 channel speakers for any purpose or size of room at a great price and gives out good sound quality.