Thread: Philips MMS460

Philips, not so much a regular in the PC speaker market, but nonetheless, the brand is respectable in all their endeavors, thus we gladly accepted this model of theirs for scrutiny. It's clearly the most uniquely designed piece out of the bunch. The five satellites are globular, like half ellipsoid, with the driver jutting out of the cross section-it looks like the thrust nozzle of a spaceship. The silver accented drivers are 4 inches in diameter, and there are no tweeters in the system at all. The sub is medium sized with slightly more depth than usual, with connectors at the rear. The unique thing about this system is that the satellites have a common connector, thus no mixing up can happen.

The center speaker also acts as a control pod, with buttons on top. Once on, we figured out that the bass wasn't the most powerful in the group. It extends low, but its lacks that thumping quality. The response of the system is more refined rather throughout the spectrum, with no real spiky levels poking out in any frequency range.

The highs are clean and clear and the loudness of the system is decent. It does not distort at high levels, but at the same time it's not all super loud.

FOR: Very good looks, doesn't distort at high levels.

AGAINST: Bass is not powerful enough.