Best Sounding Notebooks: Good Enough To Be Your Stereo?
April 7th, 2011 by LAPTOP Editors Every time we review a notebook, we test out its speakers by playing a few tunes and videos–and usually come away unimpressed. But laptop makers are now paying a lot more attention to both volume and fidelity, in some cases touting sound quality as a reason to buy their wares. With that in mind, we rounded up four systems that boast enhanced audio capabilities. While we’ve listened to enough notebooks to know what’s good and what’s bad, we don’t have the practiced ear of an audio pro. That’s why we enlisted Jamie, a sound engineer with more than 10 years experience working for major labels, to come take a listen. He played a number of tracks on each of the machines, ranging from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony to Guns n’ Roses “November Rain,” and then weighed in with his expert opinion.
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May 13th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Humm, compared to the MSI GT680R, i do not agree… I have a MSI GX660 (same audio than GT680R), I am musician, and for me, the onboard Dynaudio sound is better than the JBL system on a Dell XPS 15…better medium, sound more deep, louder…and by contrast to what you say, the “THX” traitement denaturalizes completely sound and it is best to disable.
January 9th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Well I must say that you are an utter fool,and you don’t know anything about speakers.The Dynaudio speakers in GT680R are at least 5 times better than the JBL speakers in XPS 15.You must have got a faulty GT683R because anyone can tell that.