Corsair SP2200 Pro Reviews

Overall, I really liked the SP2200 system. It was definitely designed for gamers, though. What I mean by that is that for the price bracket Corsair had to make choices. Would they rather have larger satellites to instead make a better Mid to High range or would they rather have a powered sub with the system to give Gamers that boom they want when they are playing the latest and greatest first person shooter?

Corsair's SP2200 is its first venture into desktop audio, and it's rather average. There are a few things things I think could use some fixing. First, the size of the drivers that the satellites use is very small at 2" across. This size of driver is more suited to reproduce treble and very upper midrange but these small drivers are being asked to cover not only that, but the entirety of the midrange down to mid-bass. This makes for a somewhat honky sound signature. Second, the subwoofer potentiometer should only control the volume level of the subwoofer and not the bass output of the satellites. Although this abnormality ended up working in favour of the SP2200, that's just not how it's supposed to work. Third, the tolerable variance between drivers at 5dB is very high, and in the case of the sample I received, very noticeable. This had the adverse effect of making low level listening and gaming very difficult since the volume must be increased to mitigate the obviousness of the channel imbalance.