Creative Gigaworks T40 Series 2

This Creative piece has been around for few months now, and we’ve finally gotten our hands on these flagship new speakers. A high-end 2.0 system, these speakers are something that we at Tech2 itch to blast on high volume. So here is the review after all the volume blasting…

Design and Features
These are some serious tallboy designs when it comes to the realm of PC speakers. This 2.0 system comes wrapped in an attractive rectangular case containing the 2 speakers, power adapter, EP wire, Dual RCA-to-stereo Adapter (TV adapter) and instructions in multiple languages. The set is quite heavy, and the power adapter is a heavy hulk of a transformer.

The front panels of the speakers are covered with detachable cloth grilles, whose build quality is not up to the mark for a high-end speaker. The pegs on the four corners might just break off if not handled with care. The story of the actual cabinet is the opposite. It’s a well made unit with a black matte finish bearing a mild luster. The front and back panel has a high gloss black finish, with a ‘pixie dust’ oriented style due to a mild glitter on the surface. The speakers are ported on the top panel, which is something unusual. There is an aux in and a headphone out below the knobs on the front panel.

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The right speaker has the knobs, aligned in a row near the bottom edge. The knobs are quite pretty, with shiny metallic rims, and also a blue Led backlight around the circumference, when in ‘on’ mode. The drivers total 3, one for each speaker. 2 woofers measuring 2.5 inches each and a cloth dome tweeter. Creative calls their driver material “dual woven glass fiber”. The tweeter is positioned in the center of the two woofers. The max power is 16 watts per channel and frequency response is rated at 50 Hz – 20 kHz.

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Performance
The first thing we subjected the speakers to was our test and burn in disc, just to see how this unit performs in pure tones. The frequency response trailed off at around 50 Hz as mentioned in the specs, and highs also were a bit uneven near the treble end of the frequency spectrum. We switched to music, using The Police, Stereolab and Jamiroquai CDs first, and then we moved on to a full blown electronic and modern pop music playlist on MP3.

The bass is not exactly the best I’ve heard. It could use a bit more tightening. The problem lies with a slight boom in the low mids, like at around 150 Hz, and no real low bass frequencies to support it. The mids were sharp and forward, and do sound pretty fine, albeit the unevenness while testing in pure sine tone sweeps. The high frequencies (treble) were a little bright sounding for my taste, but does help in genres like Lounge and Jazz. Highly compressed music like modern pop might sound too ‘crystalline’.

Next up was movies and games, for which I used Iron man and Prince of Persia respectively. The sound here too was no different theoretically, as it’s a stereo set, plus the problem of the not so spectacular bass comes in again, lacking in some nice thump on the low end. It’s more of a low mid frequency dominated output.

The overall loudness was very impressive, we played the speakers at max, and yet they did not succumb to any audible or perceivable distortion. This was observed on MP3s as well as the movies.

Conclusion
This speaker goes right down the middle, and another culprit is the high price. It costs Rs. 13,000 (street price), which in my opinion is a tad high. The highs and mids are nice and so is the volume. So we have a loud and clear speaker which falls back a bit on the low end. Those not too interested in accurate and tight bass can look into this piece, as the rest of the audio performance is decent. An audiophile should stay away.