Design and Build

As far as 2.1 speaker sets go, the MMS2550F/94 is definitely one of the good looking ones. It has a trendy design that will look good no matter where you place it. The sleek and sharp design will not only take up little space on your desk but also look very good with your desktop. We personally feel that it will go very well with gaming laptops that also have sleek designs.

The speakers are designed to be placed on a table. They come with a dual stand, which gives them a slightly upward facing angle. There is a metal grill at the front, but we wouldn’t really call it to be sturdy. The speaker unit is made of plastic and even though it looks good, it feels cheap when you hold them. You can’t mount the speakers as the stand do not come off.   The subwoofer is pretty compact. The driver is a down-firing one and you can still get good bass if you place it on a table. It has four legs that will help in keeping the vibrations under control. The cabinet is made of wood and feels a lot more solid then the satellite speaker. At the front, you have a matte finish under which the control panel is embedded. There are six buttons highlighted with a glossy orange finish. They are placed around the 7-segment LED display.

The USB and SD card slots are placed next to each other. The other connectors are placed at the back. The power source is connected to the woofer and in turn, connects to the stereo speakers with the help of RCA cables. Philips provides you with cables in the box. Both are about 1.3 meters in length which are relatively long.   We were expecting Philips to be consistent with the design when it comes to the remote, but that wasn’t the case. The remote is too small and tacky. It’s the same remote we’ve seen lesser known brands use with speakers.

Features

As far as 2.1 speaker sets go, the MMS2550F/94 is definitely one of the good looking ones. It has a trendy design that will look good no matter where you place it. The sleek and sharp design will not only take up little space on your desk but also look very good with your desktop. We personally feel that it will go very well with gaming laptops that also have sleek designs.

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For the size, the speakers look very powerful. The stereo speakers have a power output of 15 Watts each, while the woofer carries a power output of 25 Watts. If you’re not happy with the bass, you can increase or decrease it with the dial at the back of the woofer. It would’ve been better if a treble dial was also present.   Fortunately the customization doesn’t just stop there. The speaker has pre-set equalizers such as Rock, Pop, Jazz, Classic, etc. It changes both the bass and treble levels to give you the best sound while playing your favorite songs.

Most people would like Bluetooth support on the speaker, but sadly, the Philips MMS2550F/94 lacks it. Bluetooth support would’ve made it easy to connect your smartphone, whenever you needed it.

e designed to be placed on a table. They come with a dual stand, which gives them a slightly upward facing angle. There is a metal grill at the front, but we wouldn’t really call it to be sturdy. The speaker unit is made of plastic and even though it looks good, it feels cheap when you hold them. You can’t mount the speakers as the stand do not come off.   The subwoofer is pretty compact. The driver is a down-firing one and you can still get good bass if you place it on a table. It has four legs that will help in keeping the vibrations under control. The cabinet is made of wood and feels a lot more solid then the satellite speaker. At the front, you have a matte finish under which the control panel is embedded. There are six buttons highlighted with a glossy orange finish. They are placed around the 7-segment LED display.

The USB and SD card slots are placed next to each other. The other connectors are placed at the back. The power source is connected to the woofer and in turn, connects to the stereo speakers with the help of RCA cables. Philips provides you with cables in the box. Both are about 1.3 meters in length which are relatively long.   We were expecting Philips to be consistent with the design when it comes to the remote, but that wasn’t the case. The remote is too small and tacky. It’s the same remote we’ve seen lesser known brands use with speakers.

Performance

It’s worth mentioning that the Philips MMS2550F/94 is louder than you’d expect it to be. However, there are a few problems. One of the first things we noticed is that the woofer struggles to be at par with the stereo speakers. It has the much needed thump, but its output isn’t as loud as the stereo speakers. This was easily noticeable while playing electronic music like ‘Back Chat’ from Submotion Orchestra. The bass is still audible in other heavy genres like Dubstep and Hip-hop. However, on other genres it’s not easily noticeable.   On the other side of the spectrum, the highs are bad. The speakers lose out on a lot of mid-to-high frequencies. As a result, finer details in the songs are lost. We heard ‘Throne’ from Bring me the Horizon and except for the vocals and the drums, nothing else was very clear. The extreme highs are not very sharp either. They carry a lot of distortion, which only increases with the volume of the speakers.

The mid frequencies are the best. They sounded solid for the most part of it. This means genres with melodic music sound good. It would be right to say that the Philips MMS2550F/94 isn’t very versatile, but we still feel it does a decent job with most genres. You can’t push it to its limits with complex songs because it won’t hold its ground for very long.   It was little disappointing to find out that the equalizers only work with songs played using the USB port and the SD card slot. To be completely honest though, they’re not very helpful. We tried all of them. There was hardly any difference. Except for Pass and Rock, all of them sounded really off.   We even tried listening to a podcast on, but didn’t really like the performance. The audio wasn’t very clear and because of this, it was a little difficult to follow two voices speaking at the same time. Increasing the bass helped a little in making the voices clear.

Verdict

The Philips MMS2550F/94 might be a good looking speaker, but it’s nowhere around being the best computer speaker. There are some issues with the sound and they’re pretty big to look past. The speakers aren’t very versatile and the lack of Bluetooth doesn’t help their case either. If a compact, smart design is just what you’re looking for, these might do the job.