Yep, stick to brands but always listen to others. Some brands, like
everything in electronics, you pay for the name more than the quality of
the product. The adam audio a7x speakers sound fantastic with choral
music and acoustic stuff, I played Eric Witacre's light and gold cd
recorded last year to test the things and they blew my mind, and that
was without a sub. I also played the first movement of Brahms's first
symphony, not all of it, but the first intro before the sonata form
starts and the end of the thing with those fantastic triplets. The highs
sounded good, some say they don't sound natural, ok one person said
that, but I felt I was listening to the thing live.
hth
Dave c. bahr
On 8/16/2011 9:13 PM, André van Deventer wrote:
Dave
I listen to a lot of acoustic music - including large choirs. For
such music I would think that a flat response would be the best kind
of thing. I don't like electronic music at all.
Where good quality systems are concerned, it seems the best to stick
to brands that are known for good speaker design although they are
more expensive?
Andre
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I just bought studio monitors, the Adam audio a7x. They run balanced
and unbalanced xlr and rca out, and sound really good on lossless
stuff. It depends what you want, I wanted to hear a flat frequency
response, not any sort of pre-designed emphasis of the lows or highs.
I don't have experience with any of those systems, I do have a bose
companion 5 system at university and have been pretty impressed with
it, but again, it's not a flat freq response system, it's a consumer
speaker and damn good at what it does. I hope that helps a little?
Always listen before you buy, you know that, but sometimes it bears
repeating especially when you see a good price online. Also, test it
with different genres of music or the most often listened-to genre
that you know you'll be playing on the speakers.
Dave c. bahr
On 8/16/2011 2:13 PM, Blackwell, Clifford wrote:
> I have no experience with those, but I have a pair of Harmon Karden
> Sound Sticks. I think they're up to version 3 now. They are a 2.1
> system and sound great and can handle playing quite loudly. I
> think they're around $150 U.S.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]
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> Deventer Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:07 PM To: PC Audio
> Discussion List Subject: powered desktop speakers
>
> Hi folks
>
>
>
> Looking for some high quality desktop speakers to use for listening
> to music.
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>
> Let me state that movie and game sounds are completely irrelevant
> to me. What I am looking for is sound quality for listening to
> lossless files with desktop speakers.
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>
>
> I have found 3 recommendations and I was wondering if anyone have
> any experience with one or more of them.
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> The speakers are
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> M-Audio Studiophile AV 40
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> Creative gigaworks t40 and
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> B&W mm1
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> Yes I realize that they are kind of pricy. The B&W system is by far
> the most expensive but I like the idea of a built-in digital to
> audio converter.
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>
>
> Andre
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