I've been good a good boy lately so to reward me Oui allowed me to buy some new speakers for my pc. The volume control on the old ones was a bit flaky and would randomly go from loud to soft, though the speakers themselves were fine. A bad volume control was enough though.

Let me rewind a bit by explaining that this all originated from my desire to buy a new sound card, namely the PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series (pictured left)).

The longer the name the more awesome, right? Unfortunately Oui said I am not allowed to get that, yet, so I had to think of something else - thus the speakers.

The old speakers were a 2.1 set from Creative, who make mid-range in quality speakers (actually, they bought Cambridge Soundworks rather than making their own), and unbeknownst to Oui my plan was always to upgrade to a 5.1 set of speakers.

Off to Pantip we went last Friday evening and it didn't take long to find a set I liked, the Inspire T6100 also from Creative (pictured right).

It was at this point that my irritation was established - they don't come with rear speaker stands (pictured left), made specifically for these speakers. In fact, none of the speakers on offer do. These are computer speakers, not home theatre speakers, so where do they think I'm going to put the rear speakers? On the floor? The staff at the stores I visited didn't really seem to care and were completely uninterested in even ordering the stands for the rear speakers on my behalf.

I bought the speakers anyway, because I am hoping I can bug Creative Singapore to send me the stands, but I don't understand why it is so hard to just think or provide some customer service. I mean, I was and am willing to pay for the stands.

The speakers are quite nice and give a good sound thankfully, but I'm really itching for those stands.