Teufel Audio Concept C 500 THX PC Speakers

While these speakers clearly have a big win for style the thing that really matters is performance, you can have the fanciest most expensive looking speakers in the world, but if they don’t have a sound that matches up to the price, then what is the point?

Speakers are all about audio, be that from gaming, music or movies, people want to enjoy their favourite media as best they can, so without any hesitation after setting up these speakers I fired up some of my all time favourite albums and a few special selections that I know can catch some speakers out as far as audio reproduction is concerened.

The first thing I noticed about these speakers was their power, I’m not talking just loud either, while yes they can push volumes that would make you deaf that’s not really what high quality speakers are all about, I mean the amount of sound that they create is astounding, filling the room with the highs and lows of even the most demanding albums I threw at the system.

The lowest tuned and ferociously paced guitar riffs are reproduced as close to live as you could imagine, especially when I played back some Super Audio CD (SACD) and Mp3HD formats and LinearPCM (via some live music dvds) through them, the quality was mind blowing.  Everything from the warm tones of 70’s prog rock up to the frightening bass frequencies of dub-step we’re ran through this system, in summery, perfect audio reproduction.

Performance in movies was fantastic, just not as good as movies, being used to a full 5.1 setup for movies I really started to miss that centre speaker, just watch your bass settings on the wired remote or you may end up washing out any dialogue.

The real winner here though was gaming, especially on titles like Battlefield 3, which anyone who has played BF3 will know if full of amazing sound effects and constant explosions, I was stunned and if I’m honest a little frightened by the level of detail and the force of the explosions that were being reproduced, in fact anyone who lives within a 500yrd radius of me likely though so too.