I bought these because my computer's internal speaker is very quiet, but was of pretty good quality nonetheless.Basically, the sound quality on these speakers is pretty good for the value. The bass is actually pretty strong for the speakers' size, but the port for what I think is bass reflex wasn't properly designed I guess because the whole point of an bass reflex enclosure is to make a small speaker system have decent bass... which this doesn't. The speakers also make some random ticking sounds that sound A LOT like morse code lol, which might be caused by poor magnetic shielding and the fact that I have a wireless card on my computer... I'm not really sure.Also, these do sound pretty tinny and as some one mentioned earlier, sort of muffled like the old dolby noise reduction tape decks though not quite as bad. Oddly enough only 1 speaker worked on my computer when on youtube or windows media player, quicktime,etc. but when I did the sound test on my computer the other speaker worked for some reason. This is probably an issue with my computer because the speakers worked fine on my bro's computer.Basically I gave this 4 stars because I think it's not air to expect any better quality than this for only $12 or so. 

Question: How is the volume?
Answer: The bass is actually pretty strong