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Creative's Inspire M5300 is a 5.1 PC speaker set. At a very affordable RRP and with respectable audio quality, they're quite good value. Powerful bass dominates their audio range, while treble performance is their weakest area. By no means a high-end audio product, they're nevertheless well suited to basic music, movie and gaming use.
The M5300 delivers clear audio, with a minimum of distortion at reasonable listening volumes. As mentioned, however, treble is their weakest area, with a lack of definition and general flatness in the upper ranges. Bass is powerful, and although it tends to be slightly slow at times, for the most part it's well defined. Long, rumbling explosions and thumping music should be well handled by these speakers. The mid-range is clear, although along with treble it is sometimes overpowered by the dominant bass.
The volume levels are quite good, and we found a comfortable listening level at around about 30 to 40 per cent volume. We did encounter distortion at the highest levels, but realistically these were too loud for most use. Bass volume is adjustable via a knob on the back of the subwoofer, which can be somewhat hard to reach if the sub's positioned on the floor, but otherwise gives a good range of bass levels. Again, we encountered some distortion at the maximum volume, however, we found this to be too heavy anyway, and found a comfortable bass level at around 90 per cent. A small, handheld volume control plugs into the back of the sub, and is an easy and unobtrusive way to make quick adjustments.
The speakers' design is quite basic, with detachable stands for when the user wishes to wall mount. The black plastic finish looks a little tacky up close, but as a package they present a reasonably attractive aesthetic. The speakers themselves are quite lightweight, and we did notice that they were fairly easy to topple, although this shouldn't be a significant concern for most.
Overall, Creative's Inspire M5300 speaker set is a great value product. It doesn't have the best quality audio, but its powerful bass and clear mid-range make it a good choice for gaming, as well as casual movie and music use.
Creative Inspire™ 5.1 5300 Speakers
This time, we want to say something to the requirements on the surround sound and also mention possible solutions for its right functionality. This all is required by demanding users for so-called home theater ( Dolby 5.1 Home Theater), quality music listening and new experience of playing games.
Requirements on right functionality of Dolby 5.1
Speakers set and its right placing in the room - at the tested set, placing of particular speakers is marked in the manual and on the back part of the subwoofer. All the speakers are equal, they only differ in the length of cables. Then, everything depends on right installation of all parts to the back part of the subwoofer. In the room where the speakers are placed, you should sit in the middle of the circle formed by the speakers. Rear speakers should be placed behind your back at your head height, the front speakers in front at head height, as well. Subwoofer should be placed on the ground on the level of front speakers or in the corner of the room.
Sound card with a 5.1support - e. g. Sound Blaster® Live! 5.1 or Sound Blaster® Audigy. Connection of all 3 connectors required (4 sound channels). The green connector is designed to lead to the front channel, the black one leads to the back channel, the orange one is here for the middle speaker and subwoofer.
Creative Inspire 5300 Spec
Software support - in Windows and in most games, this support is present thanks the built-in standard support as for Direct Sound 3D (part of Directx), A3D (from the Aureal company), EAX (from the Creative Labs company). And the result? Nearly reality and the feeling of 'being in the center of action'.
PC-DVD™ - besides the sound card and speakers, you must also have the support of 5.1 sound output with multi-channel support to be able to view films - if the support is missing, you can utilize the function for modifying the analogue stereo signal to 5.1 signal. The Creative company calls this function 'Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS™)'.
TV - connection of classical DVD player with stereo output for the 5.1 analogue signal
Creative Inspire™ 5.1 5300 Speakers
This speakers set fulfils the requirements on 5.1 providing a quality sound for a good price.
You can control the volume in several ways. You can: 1. control the volume and the turning on/off the speakers by help of a remote control connected to the subwoofer, 2. adjust the bass emphasis on the subwoofer, 3. control and set up the volume and other features through the operating system and extension software.
Technical Specifications
Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Manual
Satellite power: 6 watts RMS per satellite (5 satellites)
Subwoofer power: 18 watts RMS
Frequency response: 47Hz-20kHz SNR: 75dB
Contents
Two front satellite speakers (2m kabel)
Two rear satellite speakers (5m kabel)
One center channel speaker (2m kabel)
Heavily reinforced, cube-style wood subwoofer
Ergonomic wired remote master volume control
Power supply adapter
Quick start guide
This product is protected by a 1 year limited hardware warranty.
Review
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