i-Lit PORTABLE
STEREO SPEAKERS
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i-Lit Portable Stereo Speakers, retail $29.95
Manufactured by Creative Motion Industries
Last updated 12-27-10




***VERY IMPORTANT!!!***
I've never reviewed a set of stereo speakers before; this evaluation will focus mainly on...what else...the LEDs in these speakers. I know what terms like "frequency response" and "dB" mean (I'm not dumb!!!), but I do not have the instruments necessary for measuring these parameters.

The i-Lit speakers are stereo speakers designed to be connected to the headphone jack in a portable sound source like a Walkman, Discman, portable radio, MP3 player, etc. and not only allow you to hear the music without earphones, but display a rotating, color-changing light display from their fronts; provided by some red, green, & blue LEDs plus a small motor in each speaker that causes the display to slowly spin.

This is the i-Lit model called "Twin Spin"; this distinguishes it from another model of i-Lit speakers that have much taller cabinets and have the word "Diamond" in their name.


Here are the i-Lit Diamond speakers; see how they're different?


SIZE



To use these speakers, remove them, the AC adapter, and the short audio source connecting cord from the box first, and then you can rock your eardrums off.

Plug the large end of the AC adapter into any standard (in the US and Canada anyway) two- or three-slot 110-130 volts AC 60Hz household receptacle. Plug the small plug on the end of its cord into the receptacle for it on the back of one of the speakers.

Pick up the sound source cord, and plug one end of it into the receptacle for it near the other receptacle you plugged the AC adapter in on the back of one of the speakers. Plug the other end of this cord into the "headphones" or "phones" jack of your sound source - this can be a walkman, discman, small portable radio, MP3 player, or any other product that has a 1/8" female headphone jack.

On the front of one of the speakers, you'll see two knobs and two flat buttons. The button toward the right is the power on/off button, and the button toward the left is the lights on/off button. Press and release the power on/off button. Turn your sound source on (play a cassette, play a CD, or play the radio), and adjust the volume on it to approximately 50%.

Adjust the volume of the speakers as you see fit by turning the rightmost knob on one of the speakers. Clockwise is louder; counterclockwise is softer.

On the left front of the same speaker the volume control is on, press & release the leftmost button. This turns the light show on. Its sensitivity to the music or sound fed to the speakers can be adjusted by turning the leftmost knob on it. Clockwise for more sensitivity, counterclockwise for less sensitivity.

If the sound source is off, but the speakers and their light show are on, they will respond to ambient sounds. So you need not go out of your way to turn them off right away, unless of course you're leaving or going to bed.



Because this product is specifically designed to operate from AC power, I do not have to tell you what kind of batteries it needs or which part to kick into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids.


Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.



The i-Lit is a set of portable speakers, not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused. They were also a birthday gift from a parent. So I won't hit them against the concrete floor of a patio, try to drown them in a toilet, stomp on them, throw them against a wall, run over them with a 400lb electric wheelchair, let my housemate's cats take a leak on them, sit on them really hard, or subject them to any other potentially destructive tests that a regular flashlight might be subject to. So this section of the web page will appear significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

You ***MUST NOT*** touch the speaker diaphragm (the silvery circular area at the center of each speaker); the diaphragm is rather delicate, and damaging it will affect the sound quality emitted from the damaged speaker.

The length of the audio source connecting cord ("patch cord") is ~19" (48.26cm), and the length of the cable connecting the two speakers is ~36" (91.44cm).

The motor in one speaker rotates slowly clockwise, and the motor in the other rotates slowly counterclockwise.
(Update 10-16-06): Actually, the motor directions vary every time the speakers are powered off & back on. Sometimes they rotate in the same direction; sometimes they rotate in opposite directions.

In subdued lighting or at night, they look like big gigantic Life Savers candies.

The speaker diaphragms (cones) themselves are ~1.6" (~4.064cm) in diameter, but they have long-throw surrounds (meaning the diaphragms move in & out much more than the usual paper cone speakers of this size), so they reproduce low frequencies better than expected.



Photograph of the speakers; green & blue LEDs on at this moment.

WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the flashing patterns.
The song "Rock Me Amedaus" by Falco was playing when this was recorded.
It is approximately 3.1 megabytes (3,291,972 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than fifteen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.



The song "W.C.F.Y.A." by Anthrax was playing when this was recorded.
It is approx. 12.4 megabytes (12,769,190 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than an hour to load at 48.0Kbps.

The lyrics were carefully examined for potty language, and there was none.
So it is absolutely, positively, 100% "child-safe", like the rest of this website.



The song "The Thing that Should Not Be" by Metallica was on when this was made.
It is approx. 14.2 megabytes (14,458,996 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than an hour & fifteen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.

You should be able to tell by these songs that I am a "metalhead".





Video on YourTube of the music from the computer demo "ACT 1" by the demo group ''Psychic Link'' being played via these speakers.
The memory card in my camera became full well before the demo was complete; that's why it appears discontinuous or "cut off" in one location and why it ends abruptly and a few seconds prematurely.

This video is approx. 1.336 gigabytes (1,397,978,894 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than six thousand six hundred eighty five (!!!???!!!) minutes to load at 48.0Kbps. It is definitely ***NOT*** dial-up friendly.


This is a screen dump from the demo I used here.



Video on YourTube of these speakers reacting to the music from the pee-cee computer demo "Verses" by the demo group ''Electromotive Force [EMF]''.
The memory card in my camera became full well before the demo was complete; that's why it ends abruptly a bit prematurely.


This is a screen dump from the demo I used here.

The video is approx. 51.998345624599 megabytes (52,158,164 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than two hundred sixty minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.



Video on YouTube of these speakers reacting to the music from the Commodore 64 "trainer" for the game "Wasteland".
The memory card in my camera became full well before the music was complete; that's why it sounds discontinuous or "cut off" in one location and why it ends abruptly and a few seconds prematurely.


This is a screen dump from the game I used here.

The video is approx. 19.455378762314 megabytes (19,608,761 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than ninety seven minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.



Video on YourTube of these speakers reacting to the music from the pee-cee computer demo "Delusion" by the demo group ''Sonic PC''.
The memory card in my camera became full well before the demo was complete; that's why it appears discontinuous.


This is a screen dump from the demo I used here.
The video is approx. 14.677774521958 megabytes (14,897,701 bytes); dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than seventy three minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.

I cannot provide any of these videos in other formats; please do not ask.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs in these speakers.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs in these speakers.


Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LEDs in these speakers.
USB2000 spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.






TEST NOTES:
Speakers were given to me for my birthday (09-15) as a birthday present on the evening of 09-16-06.

Product was made in China. A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



PROS:
Beautiful light show
Reasonably loud maximum sound output


CONS :
Small driver size means low-frequency (bass) response is limited
Speaker diaphragms are exposed, and therefore, vulnerable to damage
Shorter than desireable patch cord


    MANUFACTURER: Creative Motion Industries
    PRODUCT TYPE: Portable speakers w/LED bezels
    LAMP TYPE: LED; red, green, blue
    No. OF LAMPS: Unknown/not stated
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/off
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: Plastic; milky plastic covering protects the LEDs
    BATTERY: N/A
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER- AND PEE-RESISTANT: No
    SUBMERSIBLE: NO WAY HOZAY!!!
    ACCESSORIES: AC adapter, sound source connecting cord
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

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i-Lit Portable Stereo Speakers *






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