My partner thought they looked like an overly-elaborate microphone set up.

The proposition doesn’t need to rely on its good looks to get by, though.

You’ll find, though, that they cost a fair amount of aforementioned money.

The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

Not bank-breaking, but definitely enough to think twice about.

Maybe not twice actually, perhaps thrice.

They are, by a significant margin, the most expensive.

The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

At that price, theres no doubt that these are premium speakers.

Thirdly is with USB, which is what I did for the majority of this review.

I regret that I was already weeks into the testing process before I bothered to open this page!

The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

Creative Pebble Nova review: Design

How do you describe the design of the Creative Pebble Nova?

Are they eyeballs on stalks?

Its certainly a unique look taking the spherical-ish looks of other Pebble devices and literally elevating it.

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However there are two issues too.

Firstly, these take up a lot of space.

On the primary orb?

The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

You also get a range of buttons for volume, power, connection and more.

I say ‘pleasantly surprised’ because it wasn’t necessarily expected.

According to Creative, the Pebble Nova has a whopping 100W power output for high volumes.

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Should I buy the Creative Pebble Nova?

Attributes

Notes

Rating

Features

The Creative app lets you fine-tune your audio with some useful features.

4.5/5

Design

The look is unique, but they take up a lot of space.

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4/5

Sound quality

The sound is warm and well-defined, with a high max volume.

Value

You’re getting what you pay for.

Buy them if…

You like the look of themFan of the way the Novas look?

The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

Then you should go for them, as you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything quite as distinctive.

They have a pretty ‘standard’ design but sound great to listen to.

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The Creative Pebble Nova on a brown table, connected to a green laptop.

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