( 46 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 3 2009
I'm using this with a set of Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers since the original volume control stopped working and they no longer sell replacements. The cable is thin, and of decent length, but it is not that robust, so I don't know how much abuse it can take. I don't know what the circuitry is in on the inside, but for my speakers, I have to have the knob at a very low setting, otherwise the sound volume gets outrageously loud. As a result, unless I have it above a certain level, I only get sound at the appropriate sound level from one channel. If I increase the volume, then both channels sound fine. So that is slightly irritating, but other than that, works well.
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Posted: Jun 30 2009
I received this unit a few hours ago and after trying it out for 15 minutes I was amazed how bad this small unit is. Perhaps useful for those whose music tastes and needs are different than mine, the unit is useless if the accuracy of the musical performance is relevant to you. As a former audio engineer for many years I was surprised that a passive unit could be so bad. It's so cheap that it's not worth returning so it's going directly into the trash. Maybe I'll open it up and see what it is and run a test or two out of curiosity. No, it's not worth the time. But because it's so cheap, if you need a remote volume control and listen to crap or don't care about the sound, try it out and if you don't like it, dump it. This is the first time that I have ever given a product a bad review, but this was too horrible to ignore.
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Posted: May 22 2009
This is a lifesaver for using headphones with my Dell D610 laptop which boasts an extremely noisy headphone jack with lots of interference at low volumes. Using this volume control, I can turn up the volume on the Dell to overpower the static while keeping the volume of the music in my ears low. The control is even less sexy than the picture on the website, if that's possible. It also doesn't work great for an extremely loud source (like my Dell port replicator's line out port), because the sound from the volume control doesn't seem to be output equally in both ears at low levels.
