Pebbles "X", "Pro" and other compact speakers discussion

[Santy]

I want to get good looking, budget, portable speakers for home. I have tried the Pebble V3 and Edifier G2000. V3 - has a terrible sound quality, it feels like there is a barrier between me and the sound, as if the sound is coming from a box. G2000 - much better sound, but still not clear enough for me, it's like the bass and low-mids is taking up too much attention, I can still feel a slight "barrier" effect between me and sound.

I'm thinking what better to get - Pebble X, Pebble Pro, Microlab M-110, Logitech Z533 or Trust Yuri 2.1. Can anyone give some advice which one of these sounds cleaner or maybe some other little budget speaker recommendations (height should not be more than 19 centimeters)? I've watched different reviews and comparisons of the Pebble's X and Pro, and I feel like Pro sounds cleaner in comparison videos. X has frequency control in the Creative App, but I'm not sure how well that works. Microlab M-110, Trust Yuri 2.1 and Logitech Z533 made this list because they were recommended to me by a friend and they compact enough and good looking for my taste. Unlike the Pebble's, these have a separate subwoofer, so maybe that will give me the sound clarity effect I'm looking for.

 

[AnalogSteph]

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Creative Pebbles V2, V3, Pro, X and Nova

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The thing is, good, small and cheap just don't really go together at the same time. If you are pic.king a fight with physics in the first place (Hoffmann's Iron Law applies: small, deep, loud - pick any two), not having a decent budget is not going to help. Having speakers directly on a desk also tends to create kind of a phasey mess, even if those angled upward would be mitigating this to some degree. I have traditionally had best results with them being raised to ear height.

(Note that some speakers like the Pebbles - minus the Pebble Nova - seem to be tuned to take boundary gain from the desk into account, and would sound thin when raised.)

Do you reckon the budget could be massaged to extend to Edifier M60s? Those are still half the price of what normally goes for a good 3" class speaker set around here, and I find it hard to recommend anything much cheaper if you really need speakers this compact. I am quite happy with Edifier's somewhat larger and less fancy MR3s in the kitchen, and they even acquit themselves quite decently while placed on my "proper" monitors (K+H O110) for a laugh, although I wouldn't want to swap either.

A 2.1 is a fundamentally sound idea and would give you better bass coverage at least, but that doesn't make the satellites any better in this price class. I can't consider the systems you mentioned anything more than consumer crap. 2.1s with hi-fi ambitions aren't that cheap either.