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They sounded fine as I recall. You can plug a lot of things into an Androids USB port (ethernet always cracks me up)...

Unfortunately, no. But the SoundSticks did work fine on a MacBook (via a thunderbolt port in exactly the same configuration) running both windows and macos

No, everything (including power) is intended on going through the two USB slots (actually, they are thunderbolt 4 ports)

Nope, only two USB C's (I've tried them both)

Correct, USB C to USB A. Nothing active that I can tell.

Correct, there are no errors or warnings

Windows discovered the SoundSticks and installed the appropriate drivers; I have not installed anything for them myself. FWIW, under "Bluetooth and Other Devices", the speakers appear as a USB Composite Device next to a speaker icon

I actually did try that a while ago. I removed "Realtek (R) Audio" from the device manager and rebooted. As soon as I removed it, I lost all speaker functionality, but the reboot reinstalled it. I have also tried updating the driver but it says that it is at the most current release (1/6/2021)

No problem. I usually am the one missing the OP details ;-) They PCB says "Sticks Rev 3" and "8/16/00". Are there are any other features that would be a clue?

As mentioned in the original post: "The SoundSticks do not appear in available playback devices under the speaker icon in the windows taskbar so I am unable to select them."

I have some old USB Harmon Kardon SoundSticks that work fine; they were tested with other Windows and Mac laptops, a Windows PC, and even my Android phone (with a USB adapter)! I have a new Dell XPS laptop running Windows 10 with all of the current patches as well as Dell's firmware updates. I...