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Good (and otherwise cheap) PC Speakers?
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Honda Today!Registered User regular
Honda Today!Registered User regular
My $7 Logitech Speakers (I'm not joking, that was literally the cost) from five years ago are crackling and crinkling a lot more than I'd like.
After seeing the excellent recommendations in the headphone thread, I'd like to appeal for some good (and fairly cheap) PC Desktop speakers. I've got a fairly nice (and cheap--you may be seeing a theme here) headphone set, but for general use, I would like speakers--especially if I'm showing a friend something on my PC.
I do have the problem wherein my desk is rather small, and the space underneath it is mostly taken up by my gigantic processor tower, my G940 HOTAS foot pedals, and a big APC power unit....so the subwoofer is going to have to be on the small side.
I suppose my budget is about $50 or so. That's probably ridiculously cheap for 2.1 speakers, and I could go farther, but I wonder if I'd get enough use out of it to make it worthwhile, so I'd like to stay about there if at all possible. I'm dealing with your typical onboard motherboard sound option (3.5 mm jack, etc.). I was thinking of picking up a pair of cheap Creative A220 2.1 Speakers.
EDIT: Or 2.0 speakers. 2.0 or 2.1 speakers. In fact, 2.0 speakers might be better because I have almost no space under my desk for a subwoofer.
After seeing the excellent recommendations in the headphone thread, I'd like to appeal for some good (and fairly cheap) PC Desktop speakers. I've got a fairly nice (and cheap--you may be seeing a theme here) headphone set, but for general use, I would like speakers--especially if I'm showing a friend something on my PC.
I do have the problem wherein my desk is rather small, and the space underneath it is mostly taken up by my gigantic processor tower, my G940 HOTAS foot pedals, and a big APC power unit....so the subwoofer is going to have to be on the small side.
I suppose my budget is about $50 or so. That's probably ridiculously cheap for 2.1 speakers, and I could go farther, but I wonder if I'd get enough use out of it to make it worthwhile, so I'd like to stay about there if at all possible. I'm dealing with your typical onboard motherboard sound option (3.5 mm jack, etc.). I was thinking of picking up a pair of cheap Creative A220 2.1 Speakers.
EDIT: Or 2.0 speakers. 2.0 or 2.1 speakers. In fact, 2.0 speakers might be better because I have almost no space under my desk for a subwoofer.
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For reals, compared to a $7 set of stereo speakers, something like this would blow your damned face off...
You're better off getting surround sound headphones, though, if you're not playing a FPS it's pretty much worthless and you can pick up a cheap set of speakers at wal-mart.
I'm going to be honest with you...I don't have space for that. I have a really small desk that's in little tiny extension of my bedroom, and between my HOTAS, my portale devices, and various books and discs, I don't have space for it. Unless I could stick all the speakers right next to eachother behind my HOTAS throttle and joystick, yeah....
Don't get me wrong, it's really, really nice....but I'm really short on space here. And I already have a pretty nice set of earphones. Except I don't always want to wear them (for example, if I'm watching television and playing a game at the same time, or if I'm talking with a friend). Money isn't an issue, I could spend $300 on speakers if I wanted to right now (I put away a grand for a new PC, but frankly, I'm too tired to deal with that thanks to my teaching assistantship and grad school).
Headphone wise, I have a pretty good Creative headset that I like that I bought recently. I'd feel kind of foolish replacing it. I just need something to supplement that. The Cyber Acoustics setup seems a lot more appropriate to my situation, given the space constraints.
And whatever you do, DO NOT buy these - they sound like shit.
Okay, I will not buy those. Reviews don't seem that hot either. While I like Logitech for controllers and keyboards, I think I'll stick with a dedicated audio company like Creative (or any of the numerous others) when it comes to 2.1 speakers.
In any case, I'm still looking for recommendations on small 2.1s.
Logitech LS21, their bigger 2.1 brother, $24.39
150$?? You get logitech 5.1 systems for $110, like the X530
I hear they're decent, but I'm not sure about the whole 'also has speakers facing the wall' thing.
Does anyone have any opinions on these?
Yep. $150.
I would imagine it's a little better quality/higher output than a cheaper 5.1.
It's also THX Certified, if you think that matters.
Oh god no.
If you actually own either of those sets, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but a shitty set of speakers ain't one...
I got X-530s, and they're great! If I had the money, you can be damn sure I'd own a set of Z-5500s...
That's a passive radiator, it reacts to the pressure inside the woofer housing. I'm not a sound engineer, so I don't know exactly what that does, but considering it must cost money to include it, they probably wouldn't put it in there if it was useless?
They sounded worse than the clock radio they were meant to replace. So he threw them away and bought the 2.1 version.
Which sounded the exact same, except with lots of shitty, fluffy, completely uncontrolled midbass. The "sub"woofer often missed pretty much all of the beat in most of the hip-hop stuff he likes to listen to, because it really doesn't go very low at all.
They too have been consigned to the bin. He's got some Creative 2 channel speakers now. I can't find them on Newegg, or I'd point in their direction. I think he actually spent good money on them though, they've got two drivers and a tweeter in each speaker, and they're in wooden enclosures.
I should probably also say that nice 2.0 speakers are also acceptable.