FYI - Warning for Creative Inspire Speaker owners

merlocka

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Bought these Creative Inspire 2500 2.1 speakers for the family PC.

Cliffnotes : The rubber feet on the Creative Labs Inspire 2500 2.1 PC speakers can/will damage wood finish desktops.

They have been sitting on the desktop of our nice customed stained computer armoire since Xmas. I went to clean the desktop and noticed that the rubber feet of the speakers had severely blemished the finish of the desktop. There are deep brown stains wherever the feet had rested. The stains are down into the wood, requiring sanding and refinishing to remove. Really sucks that $50 speakers ruined the finish of my $1k piece of furniture.

Creative tech support have been really good about this. I was surprised by their responsiveness, and they actually offered a few different resolutions. They also admitted that this isn't the first they have heard of this so it's not just me! The feet on these speakers can damage wood finish.

 

merlocka

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Originally posted by: Nebor
Um, what resolutions did creative offer?

They offered to either

1) Pay for the desk to be re-finished
2) Exchange the speakers for the I-Trigue 3300 plus a Nomad MuVo 128 mp3 player

 

Davegod

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Originally posted by: merlocka
Originally posted by: Nebor
Um, what resolutions did creative offer?

They offered to either

1) Pay for the desk to be re-finished
2) Exchange the speakers for the I-Trigue 3300 plus a Nomad MuVo 128 mp3 player

I have 5300's and no discolouration going on here.


Damn.