The ROG has stereo speakers that fire from under the keyboard and a fairly large subwoofer on the bottom enlarged from the G Overall, built-in speaker audio was surprisingly quiet for a 17" gaming machine, but sound quality is balanced with a bit of bass thanks to the subwoofer and none of the shrillness you hear from small laptops. We did note a bug that when gaming, the speakers would crackle just loud enough to notice and muting then unmuting[…]