Mackie CR2-X Cube Speakers Review | Amazing PC Speakers with BMR Drivers! 

This dude needs more subs. Thanks for the review!

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Bought these and they definitely lack clarity for watching tv or movies that is needed for dialog. Also wasn't super impressed with the output volume, compared to a smaller bluetooth speaker or my TVs built in speakers, as it's just slightly louder, albeit with more bass, but the lack of clarity for voices is a hinderance for me. That being said, I got them on a deal from musiciansfriend for $50 and I am going to keep them, as they do seem to beat your average PC speakers in most cases. I would not however pay retail for them.

Great introduction of the speakers. I would love to see a review in comparison to the iloud micro speakers.

I've been looking for single driver sets because they make interesting promises, althought with their own sets of caveats, and boy do these fit the bill quite well. They're also sealed, and incredibly compact, so possibly they might have a more natural sound compared to a large majority of speakers overall while maintaing a small size. I will mention however, that there's a slight muddy or veiled nature to the speakers that I could hear on the recording, but as you said, a video demo can't compare to listening to them live. And about that adjustability of the speakers direction, yeah, that's definitely something that they missed out on, wish they had it, or at least, have it at an angle where it's parallel to the desk, so that it could be placed on a stand to allow an on axis listening experience. Although, this makes me wonder, what could someone do with these 3.5 inch BMRs if they had a larger enclosure..........possibly even with a bass reflex cabinet or passive radiators(there's the Drop BMR1's, which are cheaper than the Mackie's by 50 bucks, but it having dual passive radiators and a smaller driven driver basically reinforces the fact that bass is mainly reproduced by the passive radiator, but I'm looking more at bookshelf speaker sized single BMR's for a point source sound, unless that goal were to be discarded, then maybe a pair stacked on top of one another with a front firing bass reflex). Another application could be for portable speakers, something small paired with a BMR and a rear passive radiator could likely deliver impressive performance for it's size(then again, the BMR's main highlight is it's good off axis performance and upper frequency extension, not bass extension or max SPL that most portable speakers would be looking for).

Great video. I have the mackie sub with 4in monitors. The sub is really good, I'd recommend it.

Very helpful review. I'd offer that it would be more helpful still to show the speakers on the desk with a keyboard & monitor to provide a more intuitive sense of the speaker size.

Would it be possible to attach these to a usb interface like Scarlett 2i2?

Once again thanks for the great review. I think I'm digging these lil cubes lol. Is there a sub made for these by Mackie? Waiting for your sound town speaker review as well.

Do we need an interface to connect to the pc for this active monitors? Thanks a lot. Great Review!

These are 50 bucks on guitar center right now. Worth it??

how would these compare to the presonus eris 3.5?

I saw a review that said cr3x has pretty bad white noise. is cr2x the same?

Awesome review. . . Liked & Subscribed !

These look great! I'm looking for a speaker solution to work with the Numark DJ2Go Touch controller for travel purposes. I want to be able to move around and carry these things on planes along with my Journey Instruments guitar with the detachable neck which I'm well impressed with! Would you recommend these or do you know of something better? Thanks so much for this video!

Thank you for this.

Can we connect it with something else than bluetooth ?

Have you heard any issues with the speakers not being detected by a pc via the USB connection? I have tried mine on 2 different PCs and never saw an output device for them.

Have you tried the JBL One Series 104 speakers or Edifier R1280?

hey ! I'm looking for new speakers for my desk (gaming/music) I currently have the Mackie CR4 but they are old and begin to have some sound problem. I'm hesitating between their Stealthbar (or CR2-X Bar Pro) or between these CR2-X. Which one would you recommand me ? Thanks ^^

do these have enough bass or would a sub be necessary?

Can the main speaker be interchangeably placed on either the left and right side? Thanks for the review, it is helping my buying decision!

what's the LATENCY of the AUX IN?

Great Vid OC ♿️

Is it possible to plug it into a sound card?

Recently Musician's Friend had the Mackie CRX-2 powered speakers on sale for $50 (reg. $179) a pair. I bought two pairs to experiment with for audio installations. They seem decent enough for their size and price but both are exhibiting a very inconvenient flaw. When playing music through them from my MacBook Air, even a moderate volume pop ballad, the sound completely cuts out when I try to get any decent volume level from them. It's like an overload protection kicking in way too early. Lights are still on, but no sound. Anyone else have these and seeing a similar problem, and maybe have a work-around? There's a firmware update available on the Mackie site but it can only be run from a PC, (I'm currently all Mac) and there is no indication what if any issues it addresses. Anyone know?

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The sound bar was absolute trash unfortunately, I ordered two from Amazon and both were defective from the left speaker. It took two weeks t arrive and was unfortunate that they were using their customers as quality control

Awesome…

not bad for $55.00

can you please remove the background music, it makes it more difficult to understand what you are saying