Vox D5500A 5.1 Speaker System

PC peripherals are all about choices, and considerably new market entrants like Vox are good at providing a second or a third choice. These products cannot be overlooked as a surprisingly good performance is not uncommon, though something like that can only be stated after the review. We have a PC 5.1 speaker system by VOX, called D5500 A, so lets get to it...

Design and features
Being a 5.1, the D5500 system is a PC speaker unit with 5 small satellites and a medium sized subwoofer. The cabinets of the sats are black, and of the hard plastic material. They are not straight up rectangular but rather have a curved back, curving inwards at the top panel. This gives a nice smooth look to the sats, while the sub has a deep body, but not too much height. The finish on the sub is different; it has wooden grain finish. The weight of the sub and sats both are quite less. The front panel of the sub has an aluminum plate with a huge volume knob on the top half, and smooth black finish for the bottom. The latter surface has the reflex port. The Satellites have metallic grilles.

The back panel of the sub has the i/o, which is arranged in a vertical column towards the left edge. For inputs we have a Stereo RCA pair called ‘VCD’, and another set positioned below called ‘DVD’, which is basically 5.1 analog input set. The outputs too are RCA outs, labeled clearly for each speaker. This unit accepts only analog 5.1, and has no decoder inbuilt, thus if you're using these with a PC then your soundcard must have surround sound decoding and output, or you can use the unit with regular DVD players. When I tried to visit the Vox website to get the specs info, I could not find any. There was no mention of tech specs in the manual too. Strange.