My Gigaworks S750 sub has finally died, leaving me with a bunch of bookshelf speakers for use in my room, about 1500 cu ft, (18x12x7). These bookshelf speakers are rated to 70W RMS, 8 Ohm, with 3.5" main and 1" tweeter.
The dead sub was rated 210W RMS, 8" in size. It's known to use bad capacitors and it ran hot.
My current setup uses a Xonar D2X sound card -> S750. I have a headphone dac/amp for headphone use too.
I sit to one side of the wall along the length of the room, which means that I need a nearfield setup where I am really close to my display. My display is about 1' away from the wall, with me sitting 1.5' away from my display.
I don't know what I should do.
1. Get a sub and a receiver. (I don't know if I should insist on 7.1)
2. Get a Creative X7 and live with 2.0
3. Get myself yet another HTIB grade 5.1 set (Z-5500 equivalent)
Any idea?
The dead sub was rated 210W RMS, 8" in size. It's known to use bad capacitors and it ran hot.
My current setup uses a Xonar D2X sound card -> S750. I have a headphone dac/amp for headphone use too.
I sit to one side of the wall along the length of the room, which means that I need a nearfield setup where I am really close to my display. My display is about 1' away from the wall, with me sitting 1.5' away from my display.
I don't know what I should do.
1. Get a sub and a receiver. (I don't know if I should insist on 7.1)
2. Get a Creative X7 and live with 2.0
3. Get myself yet another HTIB grade 5.1 set (Z-5500 equivalent)
Any idea?