Inside the large box you get 2 x front speakers, 2 x rear speakers, 1 x center and one wooden subwoofer.

In total you have 150watts of RMS output power, this is divided into 15watts for each of the 5 separate speakers and 75watts for the sub, it’s not a massive amount but the speakers do perform relatively well considering their low output (plus each speaker is housed on a rotating stand).

To go along side the speakers you have five bare wire to bare wire signal cables of various lengths, we had enough cable to reach our back speakers which were positioned in a room approx 10ft in length (and still had spare).

So there is no problems with rigging up the speakers at all, installation was straight forward.

You also get 1 x 6 RCA to 6 RCA cable, 1 x dual RCA to 3.5mm cable and 1 x dual RCA to dual RCA cable. Then you have a small remote control and a user manual to finish off.

The build quality of each of the smaller speakers is reasonably ok, though the 1" dome tweeter and 2" full range driver have not been finished off properly and look a touch cheap.
The Subwoofer is made from wood and its build quality is slightly better, with the speaker housed on the side.

At the back you will find a range of inputs for DVD players, consoles, stereo system (Audio Left/Right) and of course your PC, which is the method we used to test the speakers. There are no digital outputs to be seen, so it’s not completely ideal for hi-fi enthusiasts.

Before we move on we need to mention the controls at the front of the device, these are also controlled via the supplied remote control.

You can select your input device (DVD, Aux1, Aux2, 5.1CH/5.1CH Mix), so if you have more than one piece of EQ attached to the speakers you can select the device without having to unplug anything.

You can then adjust the front, center, surround and subwoofer individual volume controls and the large volume wheel will control the overall sound.

At first we were initially impressed with the speakers with regards to playing games, the base gave off a nice resounding boom when we fired a rocket or gun in Quake 4 and the overall quality from the individual speakers was good.

However overtime we felt that quality was not as good as we first thought - for listening to movies or music especially - the base was flat/hollow and seemed to drown the treble out, we couldn’t get the balance between the two the way we liked it.

Adjusting the sound cards volume seemed to have more of an effect on the base than the volume controls on the unit and then if you put the base up to high the speaker has a harder time of coping with the extra volume.

Overall though we have to say that - given a month of use - we became used to the speakers and our opinions of them kept changing as each week went by, they are not bad, but we feel that for £150 they could be a lot better.

Oops we nearly forgot to add that occasionally the speakers did not remember the last saved setting, so when turning off the speakers at night - from the front switch - the next day we would have to re-set all of our input and mode settings - this can get annoying, but it did not happen that often (thankfully).