If you're glued to your laptop and want great sound quality for under $25 check out...

Polaroid's (American Made) -

"Polaroid Bluetooth Mini Tower Speaker with Remote"

[link to www.amazon.com]

I actually didn't get this off said site... I got it from the Big Lots of Orange discount place for $25.

It is about an arms length in height and as a tower, slim.

It faces right next to me - (Yes, you can use bluetooth also with it... that works great also) -

Yet it plugs right into the audio jack (comes with both, straight up old jack to jack or bluetooth) - cord is on shorter side, easy to hide.

It really feels like... just great sound.

tl;dnr:

If you're on a budget, these American Made Mini Speaker Towers made by Polaroid provide $200 sound for $20.

Not a lot of bass... works great for movies, and right now -

Watching R T because of crash and it sounds... amazing.