Now that we literally live in the future we enjoy our music in a more portable form than ever. That means that when we’re not listening to music on tiny earbuds we’re probably listening to it on miniscule internal laptop speakers while crying and wondering where all the bass has gone. People of the future: we need look no further than RIGHT NOW, because X-Mini has produced a line of speakers small enough to fit in a little box but loud enough to remind us what listening to music should really be all about. Hit us in the comments with a sadsack story about your poor sound situations and a few of you in the worst music-listening situations will get one of these bad boys sent directly to your doorstep. Just remember to use your real email address so we can let you know if you won. Things can only get better.
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When I want to listen to records, I have to listen to the built-in speakers on my portable turntable. Please help me.
I’ve got the worst speakers on my comp. They came with my desktop, and every time I try to put them past 5 (they go up to 10), they just start buzzing. So I’m forced to listen through my headphones, which isn’t always the business if I have guests over and wanna get a party going. Help me out Fader!
my computer setup is basically just a milk crate flipped upside down that i rest my laptop on. due to a tragic accident in which beer was spilled all over my laptop a year ago, i find that i am also unable to hear music from my speakers unless they’re plugged into headphones or a sound system.
I have no sound system, and so when I want to listen to music, I am usually hunched over my milk crate on the floor, feeling somewhat dismal and forlorn. The music usually comforts me, but the thought of being able to listen to music while also being more than five feet away from my computer- well… it brings a small tear to my eye. The thought of crystal clear sound makes me feel a distant longing for a simpler time.
I leave it up to you, Fader. I will not die if I do not get these speakers, but I do believe my quality of life would increase exponentially. Thank you.
I am desperate need of a new speaker system. Most of the time I am listening on my old ear buds which are cracked and tend to distort at the quietest levels. Please choose me Faderlords!
so many things that have prevent me with a life continuity of dope sounding earphones
earphones for instance can’t stay in my ears because my ears is as small as loonie and earbuds NEVER stay in. i’ve had 6 apple headphones since i’ve had my ipod and iphone, either the left side goes or the right side goes kaput! help!
One of my neighbors works in the circus and forgot to lock one of his cages and his pet elephant got loose and broke through my windows. The poor thing destroyed everything in the main room and stomped the shit out of me before i got him to balance on a rubber ball i had laying around. Luckily my speakers were in my bedroom so giggles – that’s the elephant – wasn’t able to destroy them. But while I was in the hospital getting a piece of tusk removed (don’t ask), my brother spilled a cinnamon latte into my woofer and wrecked it…
Please send me those speakers. Thanks.
I have to lug a pair of Roland KC-550′s around with me if I want to experience real sound. Because I’ve paid out the ass for them, I’m now too poor to eat and well undernourished which has left my little arms too weak to carry these amps around from place to place.
With a little luck and a sandwich or two I’d be able to carry my X-Minis anywhere.
I have definitely owned some decent stereos in my life. I’ve also moved a lot, so I’ve either sold them, or bequeathed them to friends in other cities, which I no longer live in. The fact that I have a terrible stereo right now–i don’t really even have a stereo, I just use the aux in on my television–hasn’t deterred my musicality at all. My music keeps getting better, but mixing on this television is an impossible task. If yall bless me with some speakers know that thwy’ll be going straight to work making more music.
I’ve been listening to a goddamn Victrola for three weeks because I time-warped into 1907 when I made a particularly complicated algorithmic bass music track track about the large hadron collider. I am contacting you via 103-year-old handwritten notes I left for my Mom in the basement of the Victorian house she lives in, which instruct he to post my comments on this website. If you give her/me the X-Mini jointz, she can send them back to me in 1907 so i can make bassy jams that will create the necessary sonic conditions to unstick me from my bassless time-warp nightmare. It’s either that, or I just stay here and invent transistors 30 years early and make millions of dollars. I miss my family and homies though, Fader. Please Help !
my speakers are made of shoeboxes.
i live a hermetic life…underground. beneath the mean streets of dtla. i have lived here for over a century, my face looks like that dude on beauty and the beast who later became hellboy, you know? that cat-face beast dude. i look like that. but with tiny tiny ears, because i have devolved that way to protect me from the harsh sounds of urban decay…this doesn’t stop me from coming above-ground at night, to help the helpless and punish the wicked…
during my lonely days underground i listen to an old rca gramophone with a dented old horn. i recently aquired an “ipod” from a miserable street thug…and could probably use these so called, “x-miniature” phono-phones.
MP3 Player / Laptop hooked into blown out ghetto-blaster courtesy of Texas Thrift. On the plus side, the speakers detach when I want “stereo” sound… on the other hand, they’re both blown out.
My Wilson Watt/Puppy set is just a few hours old and I’ve tired of them. I need something that will match up nicely with my Krell mono blocks, Ayre DAC, Sony SACD transport, Simon Yorke ‘table, and Nordost interconnect. Please help me. My situation is dire. If I don’t find a replacement loudspeaker over 50K soon, my wife will have more money to spend on her Louis Vuiton handbag collection.
My iPhone works better than my laptop.
My Zenith Royal 16 transistor radio has finally given up the ghost. I’m faced with the purchase of a truly up to date hi tech stereophonic system and I’m not sure about this whole quadrophonic thingy. It sounds fishy to me. A speaker of the sort you describe above sounds fantastical and I would love to give it a try once I make my final separates purchase. My reel to reel is also going on the fritz and I shall have no method of playback. Please help, I feel so left behind.
Tired of listening to the Fader free MP3s on my sorry desktop computer speakers that I now have to share with my car since some ese’s broke in and took my ’92 Toyota Tercel factory treble blasters. Haha, but the jokes on them, because left rear was already blown. Although…so is my right computer speaker
… How can I get the full D&B experience with no “B”…hook a brother up so I can put both eardrums to good use!
Hmmm I got an old laptop with one blown speaker and the other sounds like absolute shit . I only have headphones from the 88cent store. I don’t own a stero and I am currently unemployed an live in a motel with a crappy tv. What’s really bad is my 30th birthday is this Friday, talk about a sadsack. LOL
Speakers would be great- really excited for the Levi’s Fader Fort at SXSW!!
We threw a party at FORT Awesome (mi casa) and ended up blowing up our stereo system for turning the volume dial to 11. Would love these speakers to help me not lose my mind!
these sure could hold me over till Fader Fort tunes at sxsw
i built a fort to keep the evil doers away, covered it in glitter to blind them but they showed up all at once cause it was so gleaming. but I had no means to entertain them so they trampled the glorious fortress and left me alone once again.
My ipod is from 2001. My earphones sound like milk on rice krispies. I’m stuck in a limbo of treble. Have mercy.
my current speakers are a renegade polygamist sect that operates on the fringes of society.
I had speakers, but I ended up throwing them out because they had crappy wiring. since then, i’ve gone through 5 pairs of headphones. please help.
Have you tried listening to Joker on your laptop? Awful. Plain awful. Every time I have a listen to a trebled-out version of “Digidesign,” a little piece of me dies. And I listen to that song a lot. That’s a lot of little pieces of me dying, dammit.
I was in Mexico a few months ago for some much needed time away from the grind. I had gotten sunburnt my third day there, and was really bummed to have to stay back at the house we stayed at, out of the sun. So naturally I decided to get some Mescal. Not the good stuff, but the $1 for a pint of shoe polish. Around noon I hit the patio with some tacos and Mescal (sans Worm), and drank the bottle in short time and had an amazing time listening to music while the locals walked by wondering what the hell this gringo was so excited about. Maybe it was the late night the night before, the belly of tacos, or the bottle of poison, but I straight up passed out again as the sun moved across the sky, and slept for 3 hours straight in the sun. Woke up to my friends getting home and yelling at me, then I started to blister up on my arms and face. So gross. Was in the house for the rest of the WHOLE TRIP, plus a short visit to a mexican hospital. Oh, and as for my laptop speakers, well they melted from the heat. Now anytime i play anything on them it sounds like scrunched up tin foil in a dungeon. HELP.
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I listen to records on a Fisher Price portable record player. seriously.
I as pumped as i am to own a Fisher Price record player, I have to say, the sound does not live up to the brand name quality.
I would plug my cd player into my tv which was a little 10 inch screen tv with mono sound. good times. would be cool to listen to some chillwave on it now.
My only speakers are currently serving as technical advisor on the shoot of the forthcoming Apatow bromance “Ear Buds,” starring Michael Cera and a guitar-playing golden retriever.
I’m S(onically)OL until the shoot wraps. Help, FADER!
I have been disrespecting the very essence that is Dubstep for the past 2+ years . Some how I felt that my ear buds were sufficient enough for listening to such greatness that is the dub, and Im here today to ask you to help me change my ways.
No longer will I live in a world of clouded judgment and lies while convincing myself that I am hearing the sickest drops and bass from great works by Caspa, Crookers or Deadmau5 from my poorly inadaqute ear buds. Please Fader, I feel like I belong in some sort of bass Betty Ford clinic for the self-induced minimal beat addicted.
This is my prayer, you are my answer.
Uhh, I don’t have any good speakers. Send me one of those please!!!
The speakers on my laptop are blown out so I run an audio out through an old ghetto blaster that only plays tapes and takes about nine D batteries. Everything sounds like its coming from the apartment next door. Please save me.
Once upon a time, there was a boy in need of speakers, but then he realized that the hard earned money he made, shouldn’t be spent selfishly. Instead, he sent 70 dollars to Haiti, to help the children. This boy is happy he made a difference, but he’d love speakers as well =]
Due to a lack of speakers I go online and find guitar tabs, drum tabs, and vocals. I then play these with my lack of musical skill on old not tuned instruments that I record into my voice mail on my grandmothers phone. After recording multiple tracks I sink these together by listening to my voice mail on different phones so that I can hear what the songs on thefader.com sound like. It is great.
My college roommate thought it be cool to “borrow” my speakers for his 21st bday while I went home for the weekend. When he returned them to me not only did they not work, but for some reason the woofer was missing out of all the speakers, and the smell of beer and vomit was just the icing on the cake for the wonderful upgrade he did on my speakers! Now I listen to music through my laptop speakers that go so high in volume that every song is starting to sound like the Ying Yang Twin’s “Whisper Song.’ Please help me
Me and my cousin got into an argument and to get back at me he blew my harman kardon ipod dock…..harman kardon! Can you believe that?! I was crushed.
My story is that I had some external speakers that were really bad. Then one day, when I had my internal speakers blasting, I decided to plug in my externals. After pluging it into the headphone jack, I turned it on. For a millisecond there was a blast of sound. Then there was nothing. The amp blew.
Please make my situation a bad to worse to better kind of story.
-Nick
I am building a nightclub for the exclusive use of homeless orphaned victims of paedophilia, in New Zealand. Two of the internal walls are constructed solely of speakers, stacked in a stretcher bond pattern like bricks. I am, however, two bricks short of being finished.
The kids would be appreciative of your generosity.
I’m just a poor college student who likes to bump tunes in my room so that the entire frat house can hear them. Unfortunately, after about six months, my speakers mysteriously began putting out static. Of course, I used every last dollar of my monthly “allowance” from my parents to buy a decent replacement. 3 weeks after receiving them in the mail…boom the right speaker doesn’t work and I can’t get a response from the company (based in Asia). Then my zune got stolen during a party we threw. Tragically I’ve been stuck listening to my roommate’s exceedingly horrendous music as he’s the only one with working speakers now. Please help a brother drown that garbage out!
I’m trying to find more ways to bug my roommate Sam. We don’t even have hot water.
just give me one of the damn speakers.
please.
my name is Danny and I am a bass fiend. 100% certified bass head, I need a fix!
Perhaps if I had some modern speakers, I could convince my husband to get rid of our hideous, ginormous speakers circa 18-dickety-2.
Didnt really enjoy music with my acer laptop. The shop owner played x mini max 2, i am just wonder they are playing the music for the shop but i notice that the small speaker is really loud and the sound is so clear. have been walking around to look for that speaker but didnt really remember to look… have been suffering with my laptop without listening to any music… With my desktop, i always use a earpiece to replace the horrible speaker which give me rustly sound… didnt really have lot of money to get the product, but just enjoying the review from youtube while using this rustly sounded speaker… hope to have one xmini max 2 to impress my mother as she always complain to me that using a earpiece is better then hearly your 100+ dollar speaker… Really hope to get a xmini max 2 for this new year so it can be used when my relative comes to my house and be impress by the powerful small speaker!!!!
Didnt really enjoy music with my acer laptop. The shop owner played x mini max 2, i am just wonder they are playing the music for the shop but i notice that the small speaker is really loud and the sound is so clear. have been walking around to look for that speaker but didnt really remember to look… have been suffering with my laptop without listening to any music… With my desktop, i always use a earpiece to replace the horrible speaker which give me rustly sound… didnt really have lot of money to get the product, but just enjoying the review from youtube while using this rustly sounded speaker… hope to have one xmini max 2 to impress my mother as she always complain to me that using a earpiece is better then hearly your 100+ dollar speaker… Really hope to get a xmini max 2 for this new year so it can be used when my relative comes to my house and be impress by the powerful small speaker!!!! a Black one is really nice !
I only have apple earphones and two bloody dell speakers…Hit by commercial. My Grado headphones was my last chance but it looks like it wants to play only Wolf Eyes non stop.
Keep on!
i use 4 inch old computer speakers under my bed
I need to upgrade the crappy sound from my netbook and save space on my desktop. What better way to go than the X-mini way.
college student broke as a joke… my computer speakers just blew out and now im forced to listen to stacky music : ) I cant listen to anything on my computer, I have to listen to my ipod even in my room.