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The FC360 Speakers from Microlab ship in a large white box, which is deceptively heavy for its size. Couriers had clearly decided to play football with this box.
The speakers are protected inside heavy duty foam packaging. The satellite speakers are on top with the user manual and all the cables needed.
The standard input cable which plugs into the green speaker output on a sound card or motherboard, and the red and white RCA connectors into the back of Microlabs amplifier/control unit.
Both satellite speakers are wrapped within a soft fabric bag. This will protect further against surface damage during shipping.
The bottom of the speaker is covered with a protective plastic strip and the cable is wrapped in a transparent plastic sleeve.
These satellite speakers are certainly not small and stand at about 19cm tall and are over 10cm deep. They are built around thick MDF and are coated in a matt black paint, which makes them look very smart and stylish. The cables for these speakers are not that long, but should be fine for a PC oriented desktop environment.
They look alright, bit cheap looking IMO, but cleartly the sound is alright.
They look ok, but I wouldnt buy a cheap paire of speakers like this because its a false economy. I bought a non name brand in pcworld last year and the sound was good for a week then the speakers starting doing weird things. The problem with cheap speakers which make you wonder how they release them at that price is because they use t he cheapest compononents inside. they are born to fail.
As the UK distributor of Microlab speakers, I am quite surprised to see the negative comments above. From the thousands of units we have put into the market, we have only seen 4 units come back as faulty so far. We have 4 sets of the speakers in house, and have done for months, with no issues. Also almost everyone within the business here has at least 1 set at their own homes, all with no reported problems. (Aside from one person that never took the plastic shielding off of the speaker cable and wondered why it wouldn’t work 🙂 ). Major resellers we sell to are not reporting any customer complaints to us either. So with a lack of returned product, and a lack of reseller complaints, I am truly not seeing the issues reported above.
Happy customer here. bought the 6C after the review last time and they have been great, much better than my last cheap set I bought locally. Maybe you got unlucky with a bad batch?
i got a set of these and think they’re great. lovely accoustics and yet very affordable. look great in my living room next to my samsung TV 😉
Is Dungeon Dogz website owned by you? I only ask as they’ve got your review (word for word – a clear copy and paste from your site) and your pictures (complete with your watermark) on their website: http://dungeondogz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/microlab-fc360-21-speakers-review.html – i would take a look – nothing worse than another review site stealing all your hard work….
Hi all,
I’d just like to add that I’ve been using these as my standard desktop speakers since this review (well over a month of getting used everyday for many hours – music, gaming, films etc), and are still very impressed with the sound quality they produce. They have a small desktop footprint and produce a lovely sound, what more could you want? On top of that, they match my LG monitor perfectly!
Have no doubt, that these are certainly several leagues above that of any ‘un-branded PC World products’, and are unbelievably good value for money.
Simon
I know this review is over a year old now but I’m interested in these but was wondering if you think these would still produce a good sound using onboard sound from my motherboard? The onboard sound is provided by Realtek, the model is – ALC 887.
Thanks.
got my hands on these for £50 from amazon and wow these were boss…. the bass quality and sound are good but try using some gold jacks to get the high def sound. i say 4.5/5