Reviews - Antec Soundscience Rockus 3D 2.1 speaker review

[HEXUS]

Antec tries its hand at PC audio. We go in for a listen.

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[krazy_olie]

Been keeping my eye on these speakers, they look like a decent set but they do seem a tad overpriced. There are a lot of speakers between 100 and 200, if you include active reference monitors there is a lot of choice so i don't think they'll be capturing the music enthusiast, but for someone who wants something that's decent at everything they could work

It's a shame the 3d doesn't seem to sparkle, especially as I imagine this is adding to the price considerably. There is a setting on X-fi cards called cmss which will do a similar job quite well, however it has the added benefit of actually being able to handle the surround sound output (in games you actually need to set speakers to 4 or 5.1), calculate 3d effects from that and down mix it to stereo.
Generating 3d effects on a stereo set from a stereo source has a fundamental flaw really.

Still... they look good!

[MonkeyL]

Overpriced and from a company with zero track record for audio products.

The review pretty much backs up my initial thoughts.

[Biscuit]

Yeah i was a bit shocked when you said the price!

Seems odd you find that the bass is overshadowed by mids as a bad point. Complete lack of mid frequencies is common in PC Audio speakers which is often compensated by extreme amounts of bass. I find this the most displeasing and quite frankly insulting type of soundscape for any kind of music so a speaker which has focussed on balancing it out all round should win mega point in my book.

[rob4001]

For that price much better of buying and amp and some bookshelf speakers, which will sound superior to any PC speakers.

[Biscuit]

For that price much better of buying and amp and some bookshelf speakers, which will sound superior to any PC speakers.

Agreed 100%

The only reason i can think otherwise is space restrictions and even then some semi-pro powered monitors would probably be better.

[MonkeyL]

For that price much better of buying and amp and some bookshelf speakers, which will sound superior to any PC speakers.

Yep, agree 100%. I'd be tempted to tell Antec to stick to what they know, but even that appears to have nose dived over the last year. They don't make anything worth a second look anymore (IMHO).