12 Best Computer Speakers (2024): Affordable, Soundbar, Surround Sound, Gaming

There are tons of machine speakers connected the market, and galore of the ones we tested are perfectly good but don't merit a spot supra for 1 crushed oregon another.

Edifier QR65 for $370: Delivering classy looks with supercool lighting effects and a earnestly big, almighty sound, these speakers are fantabulous for music, movies, oregon games. They besides travel with 2 angled stands to constituent them astatine your ears. They person USB, RCA, and Bluetooth 5.3 inputs and USB ports for charging your gadgets. Controls are decent, with a carnal fastener connected the close talker for powerfulness and cycling done modes. The occupation is that they are immense and won’t acceptable connected astir desktops, including mine.

Creative Pebble X Plus for $130: If our fund prime isn’t rather doing it for you, Creative’s Pebble X Plus adds a cube-shaped subwoofer nether your desk. The larger speakers, with RGB lighting, are besides much powerful, and the sub provides punchy bass. They dependable reasonably bully for the money. Connectivity is besides beefed up compared to the V3 above, with headphone and microphone ports and Bluetooth 5.3, but each of this invariably comes astatine a higher cost.

Soundblade by BlueAnt for $150: If determination was an grant for the astir stylish soundbar, the curved Soundblade by BlueAnt would win. The Soundblade besides delivers a amazingly nuanced dependable and a existent punch of bass, courtesy of the built-in subwoofer. It is expected to beryllium nether your show but not service arsenic a basal oregon riser (sadly, BlueAnt told maine not to enactment thing connected apical of it). Connectivity is bully with USB-C, 3.5 mm, oregon Bluetooth 5.3, but the dependable prompts are annoying. It sounded bully for movies and games, but somewhat muddy mids and restrained highs hampered the music. It comes with a useful wee remote.

Creative Sound Blaster GS5 for $70: While it doesn’t rather person the powerfulness of the OXS Thunder Lite above, this soundbar is little than fractional the terms and matches it connected connectivity, adjacent adding chill RGB lighting to the underside. It besides has a distant and decent bundle for making EQ and lighting adjustments. The dependable lacks clarity, and the bass is limited, but this is simply a coagulated tiny soundbar for the wealth and works good arsenic a desktop device.

House of Marley Get Together Duo for $140: Sporting an charismatic and eco-friendly blend of bamboo and fabric, the Get Together Duo from House of Marley is affordable. They link via Bluetooth 5.0, RCA, oregon 3.5-mm aux. There’s nary subwoofer, the midrange is dominant, and they are lacking thing astatine the precocious end. The battery-powered close talker tin besides treble arsenic a portable speaker, and you tin usage these arsenic bookshelf speakers oregon brace them with House of Marley’s Stir It Up turntable ($160) (8/10, WIRED Review), but arsenic machine speakers, they are conscionable OK.

SteelSeries Arena 3 for $129: Sporting a bully pear-shaped plan with tiltable speakers and subtle branding, the entry-level Arena 3 from SteelSeries tin get loud. But they deficiency bass, suffer item successful the highs, and dependable a spot fuzzy for music. Even for SteelSeries fans, determination isn’t overmuch crushed to take these implicit immoderate of our picks above. They don’t person lighting, USB, oregon immoderate different extras.

Razer Nommo V2 X for $115: The dependable prime of Razer’s entry-level speakers is coagulated for music, though lacking successful bass, and bully for movies and games (there's THX Spatial support). These no-frills speakers look large but deficiency a subwoofer, RGB lighting, and remote. They connection USB and Bluetooth connectivity and tin beryllium customized successful Razer’s Synapse software.

Logitech Z407 for $114: A implicit 2.1 strategy astatine this terms is nary mean feat. These speakers link via USB, 3.5-mm aux, oregon Bluetooth, and there’s a wireless distant measurement dial. Construction is cheap, and the dependable lacks definition, but there’s a bully thump of bass from the subwoofer, and mids and highs are reasonably crisp, provided you don’t crook the measurement up excessively high. WIRED reviews exertion Julian Chokkattu says helium utilized a saltation of the Logitech Z bid for astir a decennary and lone precocious donated them to idiosyncratic else.

Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System for $400: This 5.1 strategy is THX-certified and comes with a immense subwoofer, 5 speakers, and a cardinal power unit. The plan feels dated, possibly adjacent a spot ugly, and you request to tally cables astir your room. The situation dependable effect is solid, and you tin adjacent person stereo with the 3D mode, but overall, it’s a bass-heavy system.

Creative Stage V2 for $104: This affordable soundbar offers fantabulous connectivity with HDMI ARC, optical, USB, 3.5-mm aux, and Bluetooth 5.0. But it’s not particularly powerful, tin dependable muddy and flat, and has a abbreviated cablegram (no bully for sit-stand desks). The subwoofer lends immoderate decent bass, there’s a distant control, and I similar the Clear Dialog enactment to sharpen voices, but you tin bash better.