The first item was defective, with loose wires in the right speaker.

The cable that is hard wired to the subwoofer is defective so off to the shop they go

They are decidedly better than the II's (which were already the bomb) for a few reasons: The aux cable isn't hard wired into the subwoofer, so you can actually change it when it gets old and finicky; the speakers can be turned off by pressing in the subwoofer's dial, where in the old model you needed to hold down the lower volume sensor; the bases are now a nice black instead of pearlescent, which goes way better with all the black electronics at my desk

Mainly a wire that has come loose in the sub woofer and vibrates creating a very loud buzzing noise even on medium volume

The wires that are built in to the sub and pair of satellite speakers are really well built and great wire size with a silver braid around em, again not flimsy!Sound quality is damn

at least I don't, so it takes up less space and there's no annoying wire issue

Additionally the wiring has been improved with a clear rubbery insulation over a silvery braid

wires went bad on 1 speaker pretty quickly

The bad: speakers are hard wired at back, however cable is supposed to be quite strong and makes set up simpler

They look nice but too many wires.

Too many unnecessary wires just to hook up these three units

When the friction fails, just the (flimsy) wires connecting to the speakers in the sticks hold the wire connecting to the subwoofer!(2

The sound is excellent and volume can go as loud as I like.

So M I D D L E, Amazing T R E B L E, Highly Recommended, Love It!!

Ultimately tried to return and received a series of belligerent e-mails from the seller about how "this had never occurred in the history of the company".Unfortunately, when buying anything second hand through Amazon you are rolling the dice

So M I D D L E, Amazing T R E B L E, Highly Recommended, Love It!!