Whomever designed this at Logitech didn't spend much time thinking about how the wiring will fit with a lot of desk units.
The speakers themselves are fine - just needed a set of inexpensive speakers for my office computer, and they fit that bill nicely, and sound decent.
However, I have a built in desk unit, and the cabling scheme for these speakers is very poorly thought out. The volume control, which ideally should be on the desktop, is hard wired to the Bass unit, which should ideally be under the desk. The volume control is too big to fit through the 2" cabling holes my desk unit has. Further more, the Left and Right speakers are wired together to the same plug that plugs into the back of the bass unit. Again, I can't place the Bass unit below the desk. They couldn't spare a few extra cents to make the plugs seperate to ease installation?
Bottom line - decent speakers if you have a desk you drop the cables off the back side of. For any sort of built in where you have to run the cables or wiring through holes, don't buy these, or plan to put everything on top of or below your desk.
Cons: just a few to many cords for me but not that bad.
I read all the reviews before I purchased these and the majority of them say they are bad speakers or sound horrible. I just needed some speakers for my laptop because my laptop speakers sound kind of tin can-y. I wanted something cheap but sounded somewhat better, and they actually work great. I don't and havent had any problems with them. The only con I see so far is there are quite a few cords which can get kind of annoying but then again, I don't have a set place or a computer desk for these speakers. If you have a set place and just want better sounding speakers for the price better than your laptops speakers, then this is perfect. I didn't give 5 stars only because i'm sure if you spend more money and get some other ones, they'll probably be a better quality because of the whole "you get what you pay for" motto. BUT... I have no regrets. Great price and great quality as far as I can tell!