Creative Stage Air V2 2.0 Portable Bluetooth Sound Bar Speaker - 10 W RMS - Black

Lots of strange reviews on this Blaster. The product is purpose built designed for one purpose. A below monitor, monitor. The higher voltage power supply adds headroom and girth where USB power is great if you have a C port delivering rated current power. But that's the problem, the C spec. can be a range where charging power is great but most notebooks are not at that rating. So, the soundbar doesn't distort and clip starved for power. That's a good thing. The lack of an analog input is common across the industry. You get much cleaner sound processing with an internal DAC vs amplifying a pre signal (with noise). The design is slick from the vol knob feel to the remote features and operation. The term sophisticated comes to mind using this thing. The dreaded banner 'item is often returned' is tagged on this unit. I think I know why. Out of the box, it's well, boxy. Two 'race track' oval drivers, a center diaphragm, and a side port that's flared to prevent 'chuffing'. What did you expect from a 16" brick? Seems kinda mid rangey, a tad nasal, basically a $25 squawker! Back in the box she goes! They missed the secret in the instructions. Download the Creative USB Host Driver. Once installed, go into Control Panel - Sound - Creative (tab) - select 'Wide Mode'. This opens up the stage and is very noticeable. Now poke the remote sound expansion button. The two effects combined change the 'box' to an EQ'd sound stage. Well worth the effort and rewarding to hear as definitely more HiFi. I normally don't like 3D Space Sound, but this one is a game changer. The design is for near field monitoring not a juke box for a room. A two inch diaphragm and 3/4 inch port ain't gonna pound you with bass. It is clear and doesn't suck reproducing audio. If you want a more open sound or boomy bass, get a 2.1 speaker pair (with sub). If you want desktop compactness and clear audio for YouTube reviews or instructional videos, here ya go. Don't think it's a party dance machine. For what it does, it does it well. But understand it's not ideal for music listening or bass rich gaming audio. Used as a portable outside could work, but would sound very thin compared to devices made for that use. It's simply to live under a monitor and what the design was all about. Is this better than a $30 USB powered soundbar. Yes, for the bucks it's well engineered, robust, sophisticated, and not junk. Unfortunately, others can have more bass, flashy LEDs and more stars. To me, for my use, those are disposable LED gimmick toys. Point - the SE is not marketed for teens or gamers. It's a tool more than show. Thus, 5 Stars.

Be aware, the sub isn't very powerful and the bass is mostly for movies orTV, not music. The speakers are alsodramatically better for tv and mobies than music. As a replacement for the tv speakers its amazing, night and day difference; its also good for using with my computer to play World of Warcraft. For music they are, and I don't say this lightly, profoundly underwhelming. But for the price they are very , not much better than he widest soundboard without a separate sun you can buy from Walmart as ONN brand (for music, not video or games); but I assume Creative will last better. For music that sound bar was arguably better with louder bass, for everything else this one is way better. Only other thing is that the cord for the sub should be longer. Super easy to install and connect to, super easy interface to deal with. The "surround" doesn't work like a full set of speakers but if you sit in front of it, it does dramatically increase immersion. The dialog setting improves the experience way more for video or games. The volume control is very easy to use and accurate (it doesn't get very loud, if that's important to you). Connectivity is great, super easy to connect to, sync to my router tv controller. Bluetooth works great with my computer. For the price, I'd buy it again, if it was for a space like mine. If you have a big room, want very loud noise, or are trying to get quality sound for music; spend more money and get something with more power and a better sub. Very good value for the money. But very lackluster for music. I think it would be a lot better for classica, jazz, or like acoustic music than hip hop/rap or harder rock, it's essentially useless for listening to electronic music. The less hard bass you want the better this system is. If you live in an apartment and want quality sound but don't want to piss off your neighbors, I'm not sure this could be beat. Which is my position currently. It's not too big, looks very clean, and unless you want to place the sub fairly far away it's easy to install.

Don't use the driver from Creative Labs, but instead use the driver that is built in to Windows, and then enable loudness equalization, and bass management in the Windows sound control panel. Then using the remote, enable surround sound and adjust the tone until you reach a level your ears can handle. This will produce better sound, for music and games. The driver from Creative Labs is pure junk. This way, the Creative Stage SE sounds like a more expensive soundbar, even though it isn't a more expensive model. This soundbar is a powered usb soundbar, and I really love it.

For the price, its great after trying out and returning a number of bars and speakers in the $100 range that had an AUX in. None of them have decent bass and this ACTUALLY does. It sounds great, looks great and is actually weighty, not a hollow plastic shell with 2 little dinky speakers hidden inside. No complaints at all. Not going to compare to far more expensive systems because that's silly. But in this price range, can't beat it.

Great little speaker, fits nicely under my monitor. Sounds excellent! Better than I expected and gets pretty loud too. Nice having the option of Bluetooth so I can put music on with my phone occasionally.

This soundbar is ideal for desktop applications, installed under the monitor. It comes with a remote control and it has the sound quality to be expected from Creative Labs...

No te vas a arrepentir, llevaba buscando éste producto por meses pero no estaba en Amazon de México, solo estaba el modelo versión 1, que también es bueno, pero yo quería el modelo versión 2. Cuando apareció por fin éste producto versión 2 aquí vi que tampoco era caro, incluso es más barato que en otros sitios, La batería es de mediana duración, tampoco la uso mucho, pero la batería es suficiente para mi, además, la puedes usar mientras se está cargando, yo la uso en mi PC, buscaba éste producto en concreto también por las medidas, ya que no dispongo de mucho espacio en mi escritorio y cabe perfectamente debajo de mi monitor, no suelo escuchar música a todo volumen, pero tiene un audio bastante potente, incluso la puedes usar en una fiesta. Tengo entendido que aún si se acaba la batería la puedes seguir usando conectándola a tu celular con un cable, como si fueran unos audífonos de cable. Muy buena calidad de construcción: Se me ha caído un par de veces y no se dañó ni las vocinas/sonido, ni la carcasa de afuera.

Do press "+ button" many times to increase volume. Quality is quite ok for watching movies on laptop.

Great sound bar as it price.