I've had these several months now and I'm not a hi-fi enthusiast, I just wanted some nice-looking speakers for my turntable that sounded good to an untrained ear and were loud enough to fill the room for a party. On those criteria, these are great. I'm happy with the sound and they look lovely—way more expensive than they are. The problem with them is that for some unimaginable reason the designers thought it would be a great idea for them to make a really loud, long, cheery series of blooping noises on switch-on and shut down. And also to have an automatic shut-down that kicks in after just a few minutes left idle. So if you don't leap out of your chair and flip to the B-side, your speakers will scare the crap out of you and anyone standing near them after a very short period of time—and then you will have to go switch the things on again, which means rooting around behind the speakers, pressing and holding down an awkward button until it makes that horrendous noise again, and then, if you have it wired up rather than bluetooth, pressing and holding the button yet again for a hard-to-determine but always longer than it takes for the first track to kick in amount of time until they switch to wired mode. Every time. This combination is beyond annoying and I don't think I'd have bought these if I'd realised I'd spend the next few years dealing with it, so I'll probably replace them when I can afford to. It's a shame as otherwise they're great for the money. But if this sort of thing is going to irritate you as much as it does me, I'd shop around.
