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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and today we're reviewing some speakers these are the GX gaming SW - G 2.1 2045 watt speaker system speakers and that's that's sort of the name there's a lot more words but that's the gist of it and these are made by genius which is a an Asian company that is beginning to venture into the US market with gaming it did so with the Gila mouse and with the death whatever death taker Mouse and we reviewed both of those when they shipped probably about two years ago now but this is their speaker setup and the speakers are pretty straightforward it's - satellite speakers and a subwoofer and then it also includes a sound mixer so that's four total components and it's got all the cables that you need of course the the hard specs are this the satellite speakers use 3-inch high excursion metallic drivers so that's fairly standard drivers for a budget class budget class speaker setup like this one three inches though is about 76 millimeters and your average headset drivers may be about forty millimeters so it's a little bit bigger than a headset driver almost twice as big the subwoofer uses a 6.5 inch pressure driver and that's pretty darn big it's not maybe the 8 inch drivers you'll find in some cars but for a cheap 96 dollar gaming PC setup it's pretty good so that's just the driver size the frequency response is fairly average nothing to call home about it's 25 Hertz to 20 kilohertz again pretty average there the output power is measured at 45 watts total RMS standard measurement and the subwoofer is 29 watts each satellite speakers eight watts ish so that's sort of the the power output the drivers and the frequency response there are four total components as mentioned and it retails at 96 dollars this makes it a budget-friendly speaker system and the mixer makes it appealing to HTPC audiences now let's put my reviewer stance into perspective because audio is more subjective I personally use a set of the the Corsair speakers that are $230 the pretty high-end PC speakers and they're very good quality for music and for gaming the GX gaming speakers are a bit more tuned for the gaming side of things they're not really advertised as music speakers but obviously they will play music just fine just it will be a bit more tinny in my experience so in testing the genius speakers they had a bit of a 10 on hi-hat heavy songs or on songs that had harsher vocals so not perfect but pretty good for $100 I would call it above average for the audio quality with regard to music with regard to gaming the base is very boomy it sounds great with explosions in games like Battlefield and in more cinematic games like Skyrim where you will probably be playing that type of game in a living room environment and the reason I mentioned that is because I think these speakers are sort of the ultimate option for a semi complex home theater PC setup if you don't want any other mixers or if you don't want preamps and amps and all that stuff if you kind of just want one solution to plug into the PC and go this is a good place to start the mixer will accept three total inputs plus a line in and it's got a 3.5 out as well so you can actually set this up as a PC and one of the spots they call it a turntable or record player and another one you can plug in your mp3 player into the line-in and then use a source button to toggle the mode to jump between each of these devices and it is highlighted with an LED so it's very user friendly now you won't get as full of a sound with this type of speaker in a living room environment because these are really meant to be about 18 inches away from your ears and more of a desktop PC environment but the mixer does make it very tempting to put in a multi-use setup especially if you've got two computers or something like that audio quality on the whole is fairly good I would say that if you've got two times the money the Corsair speakers that I that I use are really pretty amazing they're two point one setup as well if you don't want all the mess of a five point one set up it is called the SP 2500 and the Corsair ones do ship with an equaliser so that you can actually mix the audio little bit more accurately depending on what you're doing if you're just looking for something affordable that can be used to a versatile end in a complex environment at about a hundred bucks I would suggest the GX gaming two thousand speakers that were reviewing here they they really are very easy to set up and use sound quality is decent I have complaints about the tendinous in some music in the games the bass is fine and music the bass sometimes feels a little bit muddy and kind of washed out but in games it sounds just fine for your average explosions and dragons and things like that so that is the genius 2000 2.1 speakers you can check the link in the description below for the full review and an article if you want to read more of my thoughts and I will see you all next time peace