The original article was published in Hi-Fi.ru magazine
September 2011
Lev Sergeev

Quite affordable products of good quality of popular Sven brand fall continuously upon the consumer as from the horn of plenty. The ability of this company constantly to rearrange quickly its manufacturing lines and churns out new and absolutely different in form and in content acoustic products, and not just to change numbers in a model index, amazes.

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But let us get down to business. On the agenda is the newest 2.1 Sven MS-1060 multimedia speaker system with the active subwoofer, which not only amplifies the low-frequency spectrum but serves the front pair as well. Desktop (because it is a multimedia speaker system first of all) satellites look like attractive souvenirs. Cases of two quite light and small cubes are made of natural wood and the loudspeaker with a cellulose cone 76 mm in diameter is mounted on the facade of each of them in the plastic framing ring decorated as light-colored metal. Unfortunately, that there are no grills – the loud speaker can be damaged accidentally. The unit of the subwoofer/amplifier looks more considerable. The wooden case of a bass emitter is located on the right side, it is 165 mm dynamic head hidden under the round cloth grill.

There is only a power switch, two pairs of spring terminals to connect to satellites and two inputs of RCA stereo pairs from behind. It is ascetic – but the system is installed extremely simply and quickly. A plastic protective stripe-pad decorated as aluminum is embedded the full height of the façade in its center, but the oval port of a phase inverter is located below it. And four keys and a round button (mains, selector of inputs, volume control) are mounted in the upper part on a horizontal line. The garland of tiny indicators of operation modes and the infrared sensor port lined up vertically. The presence of the last one is not casual – there is a quite easy-to-use remote control in the package content with the help of which you can perform all operations.

As usual, we have several worldly advices. Protect the loudspeakers of satellites – we recommend placing the system on the periphery of a table, while it is better to place the subwoofer under it. By the way, in this case it will be conveniently to control operation modes even without the remote control – it takes only to put the left hand on it. But the remote control may need certainly, if you do not display video content on the monitor screen, change a chair for an arm-chair and enjoy your favorite movie or concert. It concerns the use of the speaker system in the pair with PC or notebook.

We want to add that this speaker system will suit devotees-gamers of virtual adventures in all parameters. Only do not game at night with the subwoofer turned on to its full capacity. You will ask is this all? Far from it. Sven MS-1060 will be used perfectly as a compact audio system, not of the highest class of course (we just have invented such a term – Hi-Fi-media). The similar staff can be placed quite well in a bedroom where a TV-set is available and to watch a movie of any genre before going to bed. The self-descriptiveness of the system is extremely high. And it can be used in a quite good stereo system role in a cosy study, after connecting to it any gadget with a linear input – CD walkman or DVD player equipped with the standard output analog stereo pair.

Sven MS-1060 is a speaker system for everybody. It will gladden both a young music lover and experience user; it easily turns into a table home theatre system with a simplified configuration instead of a gaming firing ground; it vividly and fervently playbacks modern popular music.