How are the speakers on the Studio 15?

I'm wondering, Dell doesnt seem to use very good speakers, but it may be different..

 

They're not great. I'm not an expert, but when music etc gets to a certain pitch/volume etc it seems to sounds like a mobile phone playing a amazingly bass ridden song.

 

Sounds about the same as the M1530 I had then.. pretty much if it went high up in volume itd get super tinny and distorted

 

Not like you want a 5.1 surround sound experience coming from a notebook.

Just plug it to an external set

 

I just picked up my new Studio 15 tonight and I must say that the
speakers are a real letdown. They are extremely limited in frequency
response and quite tinny sounding. I was hoping I could make some
response adjustments, but the options are very limited. The speakers
definitely need to be equalized.

Rob

 

I was hoping Dell might have improved the speakers on the Studio 15 over the XPS M1530, but that apparently doesn't seem to be the case. I returned an M1530 for several issues, among them the horrible sound. My Dell Latitude D600 has better sound quality with software mods than the M1530 Audigy HD software had. Looks like I will be strongly considering the Toshiba Qosmio F50 since Dell can't seem to get their act together.

 

The speakers are HORRIBLE!

I just bought a Studio 15 to replace my ONE YEAR old HP DV-9400 series and really the HP's speakers blows them away even at just the 1/2 way mark on the HP compared to being at 100% on the Studio.

The Studio's screen and sound are absolute deal breakers....im weighing my mind wondering if I should keep it.

 

i hope its not as bad as my cellphone lol

 

^^^Well it depends on yr cell phone. My wife's Nokia E51, which by the way is a business phone and not a fancy multimedia phone, sounds 10 times better....

 

oh ****, so my sony walkman phone would be like 20 times better then. lol that sucks....

 

if you plan on listening to music on a laptop.......get an external set/earbuds/headphones every time....even those portable ones which fit in a laptop bag and cost less than $100 sound way better than speakers any laptop (so far) has........

IMHO you shouldn't buy a laptop thinking to listen to music from it more than on the rare occasion.....


i of course have my beautifully cheap yet awesome logitech x-540s ......thank god for price matching

@Mezzi.......the speakers I do agree are pretty **** bad....but the screen???? the CCFL and LED ones are both amazingly amazing compared to a good majority of other consumer laptops out there.... Why is the screen such a deal breaker for you?

 

rezendevous, I completely disagree with your post and your post is an example why some manufacturers feel that they can throw any crap our way.
Of course many people buy laptops with ENTERTAINMENT in mind, the Studio is a laptop which costs usually over $1000 with any decent configuration. When a consumer spends even less than $1000 on a HP or Sony the speakers are EXCELLENT. My HP DV9400 series has EXCELLENT speakers and I listen to music daily. Similarly my HP DV1000 a laptop five or so years old blows the Studio away in terms of sound.

ROFL at you sayin that people should buy a laptop for purposes of just listening to music a rare occasion, that makes no sense.

The screen of the Dell Studio my screen is the default selection is nothing compared to the default selection screen of Hps. Colours are far less vivid, if I am looking on pictures of a black laptop the laptop has some specs of white and the black is not as rich when looking at the same image on the HP.

The image on the HP is dark black with no specs of white. This screen is horrible.

I find that many people simply post lies about laptop here or have very little to compare laptops to. I read the review of the Studio 15 here and cannot believe that the reviewer said "The speaker quality was extremely good compared to most notebooks...."

That is a flat out lie, I have never heard worse speakers in modern times.

 

well........i find it somewhat offensive that you insinuate I have no idea what i am talking about/and or am lying...but I digress

when i said

I may have been misunderstood.......

if music is your main thing........buy a mp3 player for crying out loud.....

the whole point in getting a laptop is usually portability.....and things have to be sacrificed to make portability possible. I completely agree that the studio 15 speakers are inferior to those on the hp models you have suggested (i believe they are mostly altec lansing but i may be wrong)....and I do not have enough experience with laptops to compare them to speakers on a general scale.....but my point is....if you are anything from a true to god audiophile....to a casual music appreciator ....no laptop speakers will do it for you........and buying a laptop for that purpose is therefore silly.

If you mean entertainment on a movies/videos sense I cannot comment b/c I do not have enough experience with the Studio 15.

however the screen is something which I must disagree.........I haven't necessarily seen the screen you are comparing to.....but the LED which I have seen is ranked high in comparison to the laptops which I sell at work. Even compared to my home hdtv....the colors are better. The CCFL is not quite as vivid/bright but it is still much better than many of the other laptops that my company sells

 

I realize this is somewhat of an old post (2 months old), but it's the most recent post I could find about the speakers on the Studio 15 - which quite frankly I can't believe given the horrible quality of these speakers.

I just got my Studio 15 the other day, and today I played music on it for the first time and I was blown away....in a BAD way! At first I thought there must be something wrong with the audio settings, or maybe even the song I was playing, because there was absolutely NO bass whatsoever and everything sounded very tinny and distorted. So I messed around with the audio settings in the device manager, but I couldn't get it to sound any better. And I also tried a few different songs, and they all sounded equally bad. So then I tried a DVD, and the audio quality in the movie is so poor that it sounds like one of those pirated movies that someone shot with their camcorder in a movie theater. A good way to describe how these speakers sound - picture one of those old boom boxes from the 80's with the graphic equalizer on the front, and imagine how it would sound if you slide the 3 or 4 bars on the left all the way to the bottom to take out all of the bass, and then slide the rest of the bars all the way to the top to crank up the treble - that's exactly how these speakers sound!

Now, I'm not expecting a laptop to sound like a 5.1 surround system or anything, but this is despicable. My 3 year old budget HP laptop has better speakers than this thing! How do people put up with such poor speaker quality in what is supposed to be a somewhat high-end laptop? I normally wouldn't look at speakers as a deal breaker on a laptop, but in this day and age where more & more people are buying them to replace a desktop and to use for gaming, playing music, watching movies, etc, I would expect Dell to spend a few more dollars on some decent speakers - or at least offer an upgraded sound card and/or speakers as an option for those who want better sound! There is no reason people should have to put up with speakers this bad in a $1,000+ system.

I can understand them putting crappy speakers in their low-priced budget laptops, but they should use something a little better in the Studio and XPS lines. Does anyone know if the speakers on the XPS M1530 are any better than the Studio 15? I'm considering sending this Studio 15 back for one of those anyways, and the speakers may end up being the deciding factor.

 

I returned my 15 for an xps because of poor speakers and a very flexing keyboard. The speakers on the xps are not much better but the laptop itself is of superior quality. Hope this helps.

 

I feel that the Logitech V10 or V20 notebook speakers are the way to go. Very compact and portable.

 

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