Majority DX10 & D40 PC Speakers Review

pczone.co.uk:

Speakers would not be high on anyone’s list of the important kit to pick for your latest and greatest PC build. Once you’ve finished your epic machine and don’t fancy don’t want to use some coloured plastic monstrosity of a headset to hear the cries of the Chinese kids you keep gooping in PUBG, an elegant and affordable speaker set-up may be right up your street. Especially if you blew nearly all your cash on that ridiculously overpriced graphics card.

This is where Majority comes in. They’re a pretty new company with big aspirations in the sonic space. Their plan to stick out among the thousands of PC audio peripherals is to offer solid build quality, a broad feature set, and good sound at a very affordable price.

Have they really pulled off the too good to be true phenomenon though? To find out I was sent two sets to review – the DX10 PC speakers and D40 bookshelf speakers.

Let’s start with the cheap set, the DX10, and boy is it cheap!

Model No. DX10-SPEAKER-BLKDimensions 9 x 11.8 x 16.5 cmPower DC 5VWeight 0.75 kgSpeakers StereoHeadphone Jack 3.5 mm

First things first, these speakers retail for just £16.95, which is really inexpensive. With that in mind, I’m going to judge them based on their inherent value for that price.

They’re USB powered so all I had to do was mash the end into a spare port, along with the audio jack. A third cable goes to the left speaker and is a decent length so it was easy to keep them well apart.

A simple volume wheel controls the output, with a click at the leftmost twist to turn the speaker on or off. Dead simple.

As you’d expect, they’re super light and have a very attractive shape that incorporates a raised stand front and back. The build quality is decent considering the obvious lack of hefty