#cheap speakers

When it comes to speakers, I bet the very first thing that comes to mind for most of you are the likes of JBL, Sony, or Bose—usually the popular ones. Aside from smartphones, in case you didn’t know, Xiaomi also offers a wide variety of consumer tech products, including some portable loudspeakers like the Xiaomi Sound Party. That said, does it offer a sound quality that’s at least near to what you’d get from premium speakers out there? For something we got at around Php2,700 (retail price is PHP 4,699), the sound quality here is legitimately impressive, and what surprised me most is that it never gave off that “pwede na” kind of experience that budget speakers usually have. If I have to choose, would I pick this over premium JBL or Bose speakers? But considering how much cheaper this is, the Xiaomi Sound Party gets uncomfortably close to making that comparison valid in the first place, and I think that says enough. Could this be the cheapest locally distributed laptop ever? Runs on a VIA C3 (Nehemiah) 1GHz, 128MB DDR SODIMM, 14.1" XGA TFT LCD, built-in graphics with up to 64MB shared memory, 40GB HDD, built-in speakers, modem and LAN, 4 USB 2.0, 1 VGA out, 4-cell Li-Ion pack battery. Read more in our articles including "Xiaomi Sound Party Review: Premium-looking yet affordable" and "ECS G320: Cheapest Laptop ever?".