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I bought two gadgets from this year’s IT Show 2009 held at Suntec – a Sonic Gear speaker and a 4Gb thumbdrive.

I opened my Sonic Gear speakers this morning and was quite excited to test out music, movie, and gaming on the speakers as compared to my Sennheiser headphones.

I was quite shocked to find that my speakers started playing radio! The Sonic Gear Tattoo 333 model does not come with FM radio, so I was scratching my head when the speakers started playing an English radio channel. It wasn’t clear music playing, it was more like a hissing static sound, with a very poor reception of the radio station playing in the background. It sounded like something out of a horror movie.

I immediately went to google my problem and I am not surprised to find others having the same problem

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1856292

i just bought a new sonic gear tattoo 333 speaker, reach home immediately try out. after i turn on the switch, i heard high pitch noise and buzzing sound and fm radio also. i called my fren to check and he seems to have the same problem except fm noise. anyone knows wad is the problem or has solution?

I knew immediately that the problem was with the speakers, since there were so many others that faced the same problem as me. I feel very dreadful to the realization of having to return to IT Show at Suntec and squeezing with the crowd!!!!!

I returned to IT Show on Saturday, after searching for an available carpark for 30minutes, squeezing through tens of thousands of people, finally reaching the sixth floor. Luckily, my friend accompanied me there and helped me carry the bulky set of speakers up.

When I went to the Sonic Gear booth, I told the guy about my problem with the Tatoo 333 speakers, and he looked at me very puzzled. He said he would have to test the set first. He tested my set with his Ipod, and obviously there wasn’t any hissing sound. I insisted that the problem would still surface if I brought the speakers home!! I told him about Hardwarezone forum, that others had the same problem as me! He was shocked and asked me for more information regarding what the other forumers were saying.

I think he didn’t want me to make a din at the Sonic Gear booth so he issued me a refund immediately, seeing that I wouldn’t be satisfied otherwise. I was contemplating whether to blog about this or not, since the guy was kind enough to give me my $59.90 back, but I was still pissed that he made me come down to IT show again.

Anyway, on Sunday I did some search on Hardwarezone forums again, this time for any good recommendations for 2.1 speakers below $100. After some searches, I decided to get the Creative Inspire T3200 that is retailing at SG$89.90. I saw on one of the forum threads that there’s a new online shop that was selling the T3200 at SG$81.90 from http://noble.sg and the delivery is about SG$5! I didn’t hesitate due to the good reviews given for the T3200 model.

I was surprised that Noble.sg made the delivery on the next day! That is very efficient! I could even select the cash-on-delivery payment mode, so I don’t have to worry about giving my credit card details online. I have set up my speakers and they are working very fine. The bass is good and loud, and my mother was complaining they could hear the bass from the living room -_- Although i still prefer my Sennheiser when it comes to listening to music, having a 2.1 speakers for watching movies and animes is definitely better!

Oh yah, I nearly forgot the point of this post – DO IT SHOWS SELL FAULTY GOODS?!

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Tags: Creative, IT show, Sennheiser headphone, shopping, sonic gear, speakers