mortslim;199332 Wrote: > I read up on the speakers at the beginning of this thread and I have > confirmed my assumptions. Those speakers use 1/8" inputs and are > marketed for ipods. > > The speakers I suggest you check out use 1/4" balanced inputs or XLR > inputs (for the highest quality audio signal). For your squeezebox, > you can get an rca to 1/4" adaptor to plug in. > > Audio engineers use source material these days at 24 bit/96 khz and > above. Their needs are more demanding than the compressed music found > on an ipod.
I, too, am a bit skeptical of speakers marketed to the Ipod crowd, but I've heard too many good things about these speakers to dismiss them out of hand. Historically, you're right that pro connections tend to indicate better equipment, but there's no reason to jump to the conclusion that "because it has consumer-grade connections it's crap". Why couldn't a company build a great, pro-grade monitor then stick a mini-stereo connector on it for convenience and to sell more units? In the same price range I'm probably more prone to pick up a pair of Behringer Truth B2031A's (a LOT of speaker for the money) or perhaps some Yorkville YSM1P's but these don't fit into every decor or situation. And besides, I've heard plenty of "pro" powered monitors that sounded lousy (low-end stuff from edirol, tannoy and roland, for instance). You start looking at the good pro stuff and you're easily double the price of the audioengines. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34976 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
