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while powered speakers have been part of professional audio for decades it's a concept that has only started to appear in consumer gear in a big way in the last couple of years and mainly as desktop speakers the $599 clips are 15 PM is an attractive set of power bondas that are one of the first to make the move to proper stereo speakers for vinyl enthusiasts you'll be pleased to hear there's a dedicated photo preempt on board in addition there's USB Bluetooth and an optical input to connect your telly to it also comes with a remote the speakers are well built and the onboard 100 watt amp is housed in one speaker powering the other with a simple speaker wire the clips is based on the company's RP 150 passive speaker though the ones we're looking at today are smaller in size and offer a less sophisticated tweeter array cell quality is better than you expect for the size bass can get down to 54 Hertz though for better sounds you can connect a subwoofer the Sonics may be a little bright for rock but not unpleasantly so and with a project turntable or similar connected it's especially sweet the only downside is that because everything connects to one speaker it can make hiding cables a little more difficult than most setups in although an intriguing alternative to a sound bar or receiver and speakers you