Edifier P12 Passive Bookshelf Speaker – 2-Way Speakers with Built-in Wall-Mount Bracket – Wood Color, Pair – Needs Amplifier or Receiver to Operate

Insanely powerful for their size
These speakers pack a massive punch for their little size. You will most likely need up the bass via EQ but these little guys can handle it. They sound phenomenal. Super clear and crisp. For the price these are really hard to beat. Since these don’t come with an internal amp every dollar you spend is going towards pure speaker quality and it shows. The wood grain is gorgeous. These speakers look great with either the covers on or off. The only time I feel you’d need to pair these with a subwoofer is if you’re into music with lots of sub bass like dance music and hip hop. I listened to the Doom 2016 soundtrack with these about two feet away from me at my desk and WOW. Couldn’t believe what I was hearing was coming from these puny bookshelves. If you’re on the fence just trust me, buy these.

Good Sound, still a bit disappointed
I’m a casual music listener, so please forgive that I don’t really know how to discus audio gear with authority./UPDATE/As described below, I have hooked up these speakers to my PC along with an inexpensive Fossi amplifier, and the sound is amazing. It is without a doubt, the best sound my ancient Lenovo Desktop has produced. Even though they weren’t suitable for the task I bought them for, they remain high value for the money!/End/I bought these (along with a Denon N10, reviewed separately) to partly replace my Como Musica AIO and internet radio . But Como went out of business in January of 2023 (RIP Como, you will be missed). Then my Como went dead from what appeared to be static electricity from my wife’s hand. And THEN Frontier internet radio aggregator sent me a letter saying if I wat to continue using my Internet Radio, I need to pay a subscription fee! Enough whining!The sound of these speakers is quite good considering their size, though they are bigger than the speaker enclosure of my Musica. And they DO sound good. However, they are unable to replicate. . . the audio ‘presence’ of the Como. Even though the specs aren’t all that different, the audio ‘presence’ of the Edifier speakers seem somehow thinner than that of the well tuned Como AIO.I hooked up a pair of 15 year old much larger Cerwin-Vega bookshelf speakers (model unknown, abt 3X the size, with maybe 5 inch woofers) to the new Denon AIO receiver, and the improvement was astounding. The improvement in presence (and the bass, which I suspect is key to what I am looking for, is better than the Como.I’m not going to return them, as I suspect pairing them with my very good, but cheapie, Fossi amp will improve the sound from my Desktop PC.I would buy them again, but not for the reasons I bought them. I clearly need more bass than these little guys can produce. They sound good, real good, and they are beautiful, but they can’t do what I wanted them to do.

Don’t let the reviews or size fool you
I don’t normally do reviews on here but these little speakers knocked my socks off! Great sound quality and can handle what ever I throw at them. Great quality and perfect size. Easy to set up, compatible with my set up. All around fictionally.

Good choice for a medium size room.
I initially bought a pair of the P12 bookshelf speakers to see how they would sound in my medium size family room. I used them as my left and right channel speakers. I used an older speaker as a center channel speaker. I was so impressed with the sound of the P12s, room filling sound, very good bass and treble sound that I decided to purchase two more even thought I only needed one to use for the center channel. I have a separate subwoofer to increase the bass sound. I am very happy with my purchase and would recommend Edifier to anyone.

Great quality, great sound, great price

Era un po’ che volevo prendere qualcosa della Edifier, in passato sono stato tentato dalle S1000Db, ma non volevo spendere quasi 500 euro per delle casse amplificate, e ho preferito una soluzione più flessibile con amplificatore più casse passive.Per la postazione pc invece stavo usando le casse passive di un vecchio stereo, amplificate da un nobsound tone da 100W, un piccolo gioiellino per design potenza e compattezza al costo di soli 50 euro. Purtroppo però uno dei due diffusori dopo tanti anni di onorato servizio ha iniziato a gracchiare, e per questo ho approfittato della situazione per prendere questi Edifier P12.Da un lato la scelta è stata dettata dal design delle casse, che si sposa perfettamente col mio arredamento, ma certamente la cosa importante in un paio di casse è il comparto audio, io non ho bisogno di molta potenza, visto che si tratta di un ascolto nearfiled, meno di un metro di distanza, pertanto la pressione sonora dichiarata di circa 80 db è ben più che sufficiente. La speranza era più rivolta verso la definizione e corposità dei bassi visto che amo ascoltare prettamente musica chillgressive/psychill.Per ora l’ascolto a un volume basso è abbastanza soddisfacente, voglio dare ai diffusori un po’ di ore di rodaggio prima di impegnarli con volumi più alti, in ogni caso il suono risulta abbastanza avvolgente e viene ricreata quella atmosfera immersiva che ricerco per isolarmi durante la programmazione.Apprezzabile la presenza dei cavi di connessione, un pò meno gli attacchi classici a molla, avrei preferito gli attacchi a banana, come nelle P17, ma sono dettagli abbastanza trascurabili.Riassumendo se cercate casse per un ascolto ravvicinato (max 1m di distanza), risulta un buon prodotto, anche se mi riservo l’opportunità di rivedere il mio giudizio dopo un uso più prolungato e a volumi più sostenuti.