I'm sorta new to this mailing list, but I will say it, this seem's an awful
lot like spam. I'm here to read about MD not what speakers you think are
great. everyone is gonna have a different idea of what speakers they should
have, and personally i dont want ad's coming from a non-spamming mailing
list. And speaking of MD's, can anyone recomment a good Player only that
would be nice for exercising, basically one that would be good for lot's of
shocks etc from the exercising.
My 2 cents
Matthew Wall
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From: Rodney Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:55 AM
Subject: MD: Excellent Speaker System For MD And Just About Anything Else
Although it may seem to some of you some days I have nothing better to
do than monitor this group, that's not true. Today I listened to the
four HitDiscs that were delivered Friday, walked several dogs (lots of
them in my building so I do it for extra money), made several phone
calls, visited with people a few minutes, and was given a script to
read. But I have about an hour right now and I wanted to write about an
idea I've formed in my head to write for a while about a very economical
and excellent powered speaker system I recently purchased which is great
for music and everything else.
It's an AC only system for starters, unlike the Powered Partners which
are now made by Jensen, I believe. It's called the Klipsch Pro Media
v.2-400 and you can order it from Klipsch for $250. It's 400 watts,
completely self powered and dolby digital-a subwoofer with two six and a
half inch woofers and four satellites which each have a three inch mid
bass driver and three quarter inch tweeters. It is extremely well built
and THX certified, a first for computer speakers which is what they
officially are, but you can easily hook them up to an amplifier or TV.
All you need are those little adapter joints (for lack of a better word)
with two eighth inch female receptors on each end (two of those) and
four standard RCA to eighth inch plug cords. I have mine hooked up to
the audio outputs of my Toshiba widescreen TV. I run my MD recorders
(depending on which one I'm using at the time, usually it's the
MDS-JA20ES but it's in the Sony Service Center right now.) You can just
as easily plug them into the headphone jack on any MD unit. They are
loud and they are awesome, but you can get distortion because of the
small size of the speakers and you could even blow them up, I suppose,
if they are too loud. But they're plenty loud enough for most tastes.
You won't get the kind of performance from these you'd get with a high
end amp and top notch audiophile speakers, but for most people it will
be very adequate. The subwoofer is rated at 160 watts and the satellites
at 60 watts each and the THX certification does mean something. They are
awesome for movies, giving a very real theater sound and it if isn't
true 5.1 (they don't claim to have a dolby digital decoder built in) you
could have fooled me. In my case, the TV acts as the center speaker but
you don't really need one, especially if you're listening to music. With
standard MD and CD music, you'll get equal amounts of volume in stereo
for each of the two channel stereo setups, wherever you happen to be.
And they send you a whole lot of speaker wire with mini jack plugs on
each end, so you can put them pretty much wherever you want. The master
satellite does have a separate volume control for the surrounds and the
subwoofer, so you can adjust them to your taste. Musically, I would call
them crisp but everybody has a different definition of what that is.
You'll get great detail with a lot of bass but not what you'd get from a
true audiophile system. It should be noted, however, that in the Good
Guys Christmas Catalog, an almost exact Klipsch system sells for $849.99
and those are not powered. The satellites are identical to these and you
do get a center channel speaker, but big deal. The subwoofer is also
larger and different, even though its rated at 100 watts compared to the
160 watts in this system's subwoofer but I can tell you this one puts
out plenty of air. I have it sitting on my eight foot long A/V cabinet
and I have felt blasts of air from the subwoofer when I am in bed
sometimes and that's probably eight feet away. When you get into things
like the creaking ship deep bass notes in "Titanic", it's very realistic
sounding. Music is touchier, everyone has slightly different tastes, but
for most pop, rock, dance, and hip hop material they suit me just fine.
They do pretty well with new age jazz as well, at least I think so.
They'd probably be pretty good with classical as well. I don't listen to
a lot of classical material but I certainly respect it and those who do
and know it well. There's even more information on this system in the
November 1999 issue of Sound And Vision where they compare it with six
other computer systems. I really haven't auditioned the other speaker
systems but I don't feel I need to. The day I saw these in one of the
new product pages in one of the A/V magazines I ordered them. They
looked incredible, the price was fantastic, the description mind
boggling and the THX label was very impressive for a computer speaker
system. Klipsch has one hell of a great reputation for speakers going
back quite a ways, unlike some other very popular speaker companies
whose stores can be found in some shopping malls and the running joke
among audiophiles is "No highs, No Lows, Must Be...". If these sound
good to you, you can find more information at
http://www.klipsch.com
or their 800 number 1-800-554-7724 (1-800-KLIPSCH)
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