My niece gave me these nice old Creative computer speakers with a woofer. Although they don't beat my good old phonograph sound system's speakers, they're still pretty good. Just got to make sure the volume ain't up too high or else my neighbors across the woods will hear me log on to windows.
I love the windows 98 log on sound, I've found the kids laughing when logging off a little weird though.
I've got three sets of originally-supplied-with-PMPs Creative earbuds. Aside from the fact that they're earbuds (which makes them pretty awful in form alone), they sound..."acceptable".
Pretty poor bass but the quality is there. Limited distortion, they play whatever you want them to, they simply don't put out much bass at all (in the sense that it simply won't be heard, rather than being turned into a nasty distorted vibration like other cheap sets).
As for their better headphone products...couldn't tell ya.
HA! That's why I've been using my Creative SBS20s for 8 years, they're TREBLE. I hate bass, it's stupid. BOOM BOOM BOOM. Boom your ass! It's crap! Treble is where all of the melodies are. Get angry at me if you want, but music consists of treble and MELODY, not noise, repeating drum loops with obnoxious vocals.
Bass is good if you're listening to chip tunes... yeah... because they can't even use bass, they're all 8-bit treble sharp goodness. None of that muffled crap they call "music".
I should add that you need a LITTLE bit of bass, 100% pure treble is even a little bit too much, although it's worthy to note I can turn all of the bass off on my SBS20s. Yeah... you can actually control the bass, treble, volume -- even has a mute button. Most of the minimalistic crappy speakers today only have a volume button -- um... WHAT IF I WANT TO CHANGE SOME PARAMETERS?
