PC Speaker recommendations

[ARW]

No problems with pre owned.

I had not thought thought of that option.

[Brian Gaff]

What are they for. By this I mean are you going to use them for hi quality audio? Personally I find stuffing the output into a hi fi very nice, but if its an internal card, then it will most likely have all sorts of crud on the power supply. to get good audio you need a good external sound card with either its own USB psu, or a USB powered hub with a big well made supply, even then you can hear a whine and need to clean the USB plugs every so often I find. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Some of the Creative lab ones are not bad, but they do tend to have issues with hum or dodgy connections. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Even a cheapish stereo sounds better than the rubbish run of the mill speakers you get these days unless you use bose or something. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Only when the bill comes in.

Brian

[Tim Watts]

Cheers - I will have a look.

I've got my eye on some Kanto YU4's or maybe YU6's for another living area that could do with something HiFi-ish. Not cheap but excellent reviews and loads of inputs. But it's always worth checking out other stuff that might be as good and I can actually listen to.

[Bill]

In message , ARW writes

If you were nearer, I could have dug something out of the garage. I am sure I have another the same as the thing I've used for years.

It's a Sony device designed to sit under the tube type monitor, which would sit on a floating plate behind the control section. The suspension was to stop the sound from the speakers at the front causing lines or other disturbance when they vibrated the screen.

I think I ebayed a similar device, not by Sony, some years ago and got no takers. The freecycle recipient got in touch later to express his delight.

[charles]

A couple of weeks' ago I spent about £30 on a sound bar from

It sits behind my monitor rather than under it. I'm perfectly happy with it, but my hearing isn't what it used to be.

[Tim Watts]

Yep. I need to boost the treble these days. Listening to Black Sabbath, Eisbrecher and BlutEngel at full volume probably doesn't help :-o

[John Rumm]

Also worth keeping in mind that a £25 Chromecast Audio will turn anything with a line in connection into an all singing (but possibly not dancing) streaming audio service.

[JoeJoe]

Take your pick

[Rob Morley]

I have several sets of these

Creative Soundworks speakers (all cheap used on eBay) which must be quite vintage by now but still sound good to me. They're 4.1 but I use them as 2.1 on this machine because there's nowhere the rears would easily fit. They make the telly sound better when watching videos too.

[soup]

"If ", one of the biggest words in the English language .

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You're into the same problem as with any speakers. To get a decent bottom end at reasonable volume needs largish speakers. Or to split that signal up.

I've got an ancient Cambridge PC speaker system that has a sub (which also contains the electronics) making the stereo pair pretty small - only about

2" square. Sound pretty good for a low cost system. But I'd guess from the days of desktops where space isn't so much of a problem, rather than an add on for a laptop.

[R D S]

We've one of these at work, handy as it's battery as well as mains.

[R D S]

[ARW]

And went for more than my bid.

[ARW]

Lets amuse that no 1 is similar to the s**te I already own (although someone put her high heels through one of the speakers so I am mono ATM)

So I am looking at no 2 and no 3 but I have no wish for a full opera at

98dB with full quality sound.

Might as well buy this

or this

[John Rumm]

You might get more bang for your buck with a 2.1 set rather than a 5.1 setup, if you don't actually need the rear speakers (handy for movies, and some games, but not much benefit for music)