“After placing the speakers a feet feet from each other and about a foot behind my laptop, I hit play. The sound seemed to be coming from my computer, directly in front of me, not from the speakers. This confused me, and made me wonder if I’d properly plugged them in. I adjusted the volume, just to check. The music grew louder. This left me wondering if the soundstage is really that good. I leaned in and listened for a few moments longer. Yes, the soundstage was that good. The speakers had disappeared without properly setting them up. A great first impression. I wondered how would the HD3s might fare with electronic music, dance music, or hip hop. I tried everything, including acoustic and classical. I found the same soundstage precision, lack of distortion, clear separation, clean detail and top-to-bottom smoothness in all of it. These are the best desktop speakers I’ve heard, and it’s not even close when you compare these to similarly priced wireless speakers. Nearly flawless, buy it now.” —— wired.com