Product Description

Personal Mini Stereo Speaker System

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30445 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Silver
• Brand: Coby
• Model: CS-P14
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 3.00" h x 2.00" w x 3.00" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• High Efficiency Mini Stereo Speakers
• Lightweight and compact for easy carrying and space saving
• 3.5 mm Mini Plug for all types of portable audio use
• No external power adapter necessary

Customer Reviews

Good for iPods
This is an okay product if you want to have speakers for your iPod, but don't want to buy the more expensive stuff. You get good sound quality, it's cheap, and it's very portable. They're very quiet though, so you won't quite rock the house, but you'll be able to hear it.

Lame--avoid
I bought these babies concurrently with the battery-powered Coby CS-MP23 and a similar generic version from Walgreens "GoStereo" brand, all for the same price. At the electronics store, I noticed at least two, possibly three, packages of this model (CS-P14) which were obvious returns, which made me leery. Mine certainly became the third or fourth to be put back on the shelf... and they WEREN'T "defective"... just a "bad design", I told the customer service counter.

So getting to try two "mini" but battery-powered versions, along with these hugely larger yet unpowered speakers, side-by-side, was eye-opening, if disappointing. Believe it or not, these speakers were the quietest of the bunch. However, the volume of all 3 models were in similar range. These CS-P14's were worst in terms of sound, though--quite a disappointment. I would think that unpowered speakers which nevertheless had a decent amount of surface area, would be the best performs in terms of straight fidelity, if not volume. Nope. Sound was, well, VERY muddled. Voice (the primary usefulness for a product like this) was not clear. Voice through this model was the most difficult to understand of the three (add that to the lowest volume, too, and we have a clear loser). Highs just weren't there, I mean almost at all. And "bass"... well, you know. Not enough to make it in any way make up for its deficiencies.

The product packaging advertises how the speakers can be put together (as if "kissing") for more compact transport, but the way it is illustrated, with the speaker wire wrapping around the bases to keep the pods together, the laws of physics don't work that way; the wire wrapped at the base would actually serve to pull them apart like a clamshell. I envisioned a way that, with a slightly better design, that this would've been a possibility, but these speakers were just an exercise in lackluster design all around.

The speaker cord length is adequate; that's about the only positive thing I can say. With a complete redesign, and some battery power (goodness knows there's plenty of space in there), these things could have promise, but as they are, are losers all around.

Little speakers for little electronics.
I just connected these to an MP3 player and they work great. They are loud enough and I bought them for $2.00. I probably wouldn't use them for a laptop or computer, but they are perfect for my little MP3 player and work great. Plus, they are a super cute desk accessory for my little cubicle. :)