CREATIVE Stage V2 2.1 Soundbar with Subwoofer, Clear Dialog and Surround by Sound Blaster, Bluetooth 5.0, TV ARC, Optical, and USB Audio, Wall Mountable, Adjustable Bass and Treble, for TV

Great little speaker, fits nicely under my monitor.Sounds excellent! Better than I expected and gets pretty loud too.Nice having the option of Bluetooth so I can put music on with my phone occasionally.

You've read the other reviews. Now for the review you really need. Reviewed at £29.99.You want to buy a soundbar, but you don't want to spend a fortune on it. Perhaps your monitor speakers are tinny and you're looking for something to give your PC's audio some more body. Perhaps you own a small TV with terrible in-built speakers and you want something louder with clearer dialogue. If so, then this soundbar is a good purchase and I recommend it.If you want something portable to play music via Bluetooth or if you're buying it as a soundbar for a large TV in a large room, you will be disappointed. There are other portable soundbars better suited to these scenarios for a little more money.Some of the other reviews I've seen appear to come from people who were expecting this to be the right soundbar to blast out some loud, bass-heavy music. It is okay at music. Just okay. Don't believe the people who say there is no bass - there is objectively an amount of bass that is present and which can be heard clearly - it just isn't jaw-droppingly deep or loud. Audiophiles should ask themselves why they would expect amazing quality from something so cheap.I compared this with an Anker Soundcore portable soundbar. The Anker clearly won on the music front, but the Creative Stage Air 100% wins on general dialogue and movie audio.If your monitor has a line out port, you can pass the audio through your monitor to this soundbar. Your PC will send the audio to the monitor via HDMI, and your monitor will output that audio to the soundbar. Really simple.Note that the speaker probably won't stay charged under day-long use if you're using your PC or monitor's USB port to charge from. You will instead need to pick up a 5v 2.0 amp charger - you might have one lying around from an old phone.The input indicator light behind the speaker grill can be obnoxious. I've put a bit of black gorilla tape over the grill to solve this, and you can still tell which input is selected by the muted coloured glow behind it.To conclude, you'd be hard pressed to find a better compact soundbar for dialogue and movies at this price point. If your primary use case for this would be music, then look elsewhere - particularly toward the excellent Anker Soundcore range. If space is not an issue for you, then you might find a slightly better hefty soundbar for the same price or a little more.

Bought this to use with tv in motorhome. Works brilliantly off the tv headphone socket, powered by the USB lead from a 12v connector. Also useful as a bluetooth speaker through smartphone/tablet. The sound level and quality is excellent at this price point. Recommended.

While it lasted the sound was actually pretty good, certainly a step up from the Anker soundcore I was using with my computer. Decent bass, I was actually quite happy. I used the 3.5mm in for no latency etc.I bought this about 11 months ago. About 1 month ago (10 months after purchase) it started giving the low battery warning and switching off. It's always plugged in so I found that odd. I tried various USB cables and chargers that I know to work and no matter what the red LED to indicate power input wouldn't come on, not even a flicker. The thing was always below my monitor and the charge socket looks 100% fine, it was not misused, so .. it's just died internally for reasons unknown. I've tried the recessed reset button etc, doesn't help.So .. yes good enough while it lasted and value for money WHILE it worked, but doubtful build quality.

Sounds absolutely amazing, I recommend this to anyone with a computer or console setup.

I bought this because it was recommended as best value for a cheap option. Maybe it is, if you can get it going. The instructions - primitive illustrations only - are indecipherable. I went for the traditional mini-jack to mini-jack sound, and charged the battery as recommended. I can't get any sound out of it, although the irritating chinese-american tells me it is trying to sync, and that recording works fine and bassy.It's also not suitable for a laptop, because it's very large and quite heavy [about 1.5kg] and not something you can take on holiday.Other irritations: very short charging cable; controls on the end of the bar where you can't see them, and black o black so you have to hold them up to the light to find them; no volume level indicator. It's gone straight back. So can anyone recommend a good cheapish soundbar which will work with a laptop and has clear well-written instructions aimed at people who aren't technology-minded [eg tell me how bluetooth should work]?

This soundbar has great sound quality but it has serious electric humming noise issues. It is very annoying. The tolerable fix for the humming sound is to NOT increase the volume on the soundbar but to increase it on the source of sound which could be anything from a phone or a PC. It is sad that Creative made a great soundbar but they haven't fixed the annoying humming sound issue. I would have given 5 stars but the humming sound issue is really bad.

Got this as a present for an old woman with bad hearing.Broke after a few months when disconnected from mains using battery.Battery charges fine but sound cuts out half way and is lower than tvs volume. Sort of defeating the purpose of it in the first place. Sound quality is no where near as good as the old t10s for some reason but good enough for tv use.Second set of creatives that have broke on me. T20 Gigaworks broke also with one of the speakers being defective after a year or two.