My son has NO issues with the speakers, so far, so good..

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I use these mostly as studio monitors, they are good enough for the price. I'm not an extreme audiophile, but I do think they sound great for their size.Would be 5 stars, except the remote was dead as a few other people have reported. The battery was good but there was no output from the IR LED. I didn't feel like taking the trouble to return them, so I used them with the lights stuck on for a while. The patterns are neat for DJing live but annoying when trying to focus on producing a track.Fortunately, I was cleaning up my house and found an old unbranded TV/DVD remote and figured I would try it out. It worked! The power button turns the lights on or off, play or stop activates the flash mode, and channel buttons 1-7 change the colors. That's not necessarily mapped exactly to the original remote buttons but it satisfied me. So if you get one and the remote doesn't work, don't despair. Any sort of universal remote will probably work to at least turn the lights on or off.

Sound quality is great but the remote doesn't work to change the light patterns or turn them off. I've even changed the battery and still doesn't work. I've contacted Hercules support directly and waiting for resolution but most likely they will send me new speakers because the rep told me they don't have spare remotes. Besides that for $129 these are some best quality sounding studio speakers you can get and the lights are nice touch to parties or if you just want to jam out alone.

My son loves his speakers especially the lights

Had speakers for two weeks never played loud. the right speaker has no sound and left speakers lights stopped working...

Even though I have a variety of music equipment for different purposes, we got this specifically for late night get-togethers. Especially when my Wife has her girlfriends over for mixed drinks, talking and hanging out. The quality of these speakers are great. Really crisp highs, warm lows. The bass response is just surprising, considering the speakers aren't big and bulky.The lighting effects are pretty cool. Sometimes we just turn them off, though it did take a minute to figure out just how to do that. The only peculiar thing that I have noticed about these, is that for a while we'd get a random flash of light from the little domes up top. Eventually i figured out how to disable that. But my Wife, as well as a couple of her girlfriends, were convinced we had some sort of ghost in the house lol. Because every once in a while, they'd notice a random flash of light coming from the living room. Eventually we figured it out. We Also have a similar set, but without the lights. That was specifically in my Wife's vlogging room, where she records videos for YT. And also edits her videos and audio, they make good monitors in that respect. Great quality, has really held up over time, so we would recommend them to others.

The sound quality is decent until you turn them up a lot, which sort of defeats the purpose of them being "party" speakers (I guess? except for the lights). I really wish the cables were about 6 inches longer though. I believe I have a pretty average size desk, maybe a little larger than the average, and had a bit of trouble getting all my cables fit perfectly. I really only need a couple more inches but they should add the cable length just in case, for other people. Apart from that, the design on the speakers look very nice, the lights are a little obtrusive but that's only to be expected with these, and I can't complain.

I am actually surprised by how good these small speakers are. I was planning on using them in my home recording studio instead of some computer speakers I have. I liked that they had the lights on the top because then I could use them for other fun purposes if I wanted to.I set these up and tested them with the included cable hooked to my phone. I played a variety of music through it with the phone turned up to 100% and even turned these speakers up all the way. I was very surprised that I did not notice any distortion. I am used to low-cost amplifiers that seem to distort over about 75%. I was not expecting the speakers to perform this well.The speakers hooked together with a cable that has two of the large square USB device connectors on it (like the ones that go into a USB printer or the older Arduino). This could be a problem, since I don’t know how common these cables are if this one breaks or is lost. (Though, for all I know, Amazon sells them.)The included remote is a bit of a challenge. If you set the speakers up and spread them out as far as they can go with the cable, you have to point the remote at each speaker to get it to receive. If you were trying to toggle through the light modes, you have to stand back far enough for the remote to reach both speakers at the same time otherwise your speaker lights get out of sync because one might receive the remote command and the other doesn’t. This tells me that each speaker must be independent, and have a separate receiver, rather than having the main speaker with the power plug taken care of everything.The included lights on the top or a bit cheesy but they are fine. They pulse between red, green, and blue and various combinations of that. The lens on the top producers dots of light that will dance around the ceiling. It’s nice, but is nothing more than the cheesy party lights you might find at places like Spencer’s gifts.My unit did not come with instructions, so I just pressed buttons and looked at the different things it did. It is supposed to have a mode where the lights will respond to the music, but I didn’t really notice anything extreme. It has several different pattern as it can do, and they’re all about the same. Some flash, some don’t.The speakers are reasonably well built. Again, I was expecting much cheaper quality.Overall, these are going to make a nice addition to my home studio. I do not do any type of professional recording. I mostly do the occasional video or radio commercial or original music for myself. The speakers are definitely better that overall, these are going to make a nice addition to my home studio. I do not do any type of professional recording. I mostly do the occasional video or radio commercial or original music for myself. The speakers are definitely better than the computer speakers I’ve been using.And, I look forward to using them around Halloween :-)