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Uhh...I never said 100% volume on the speakers, 100% source is media player source. That's not trolling, it's pointing out he should max the source if the volume isn't enough on the Z-2300 pre-amp/pot. If you don't understand terminology that online audio forums use I can't help you there.

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Ground loop noise either needs a cheater plug or (more destructive) a 60 Hz ground loop remover which will effect the sound quality. AC noise rejection devices exist but obviously if you could afford those you wouldn't be using AV40s.

T-Amps are made to be overdriven :) It was intentionally designed that way. They added significant even order distortion characteristics to give a warm sound.

Promedias are pretty directional, much more than normal speakers because of the compress driver design, so you should probably wall mount or prop them up with some textbooks if it's on your desk.

The sub is irrelevant. The speakers are hooked up the speaker's amp that just happens to be bolted to the sub. Watts = Volts x Amperes. For whatever reason, your signal likely had too much voltage and your amp could not produce enough current. While you get just as much power, high voltage...

You should be doing 100% source, 100% master volume.

Voice coil failure is usually due to voltage spikes.

Yes, and better speakers will go much louder before they start to hurt your ears since you won't be listening to ear splitting distortion.

Something tells me a JL Fathom F113 won't even be enough for this guy.

If that's the case your thread title is misleading. You are actually trying to say the satellites suck and the distortion is becoming unbearable in order to get the bass on the subwoofer to acceptable levels for you. I hear you. Those satellites do suck.

I would put money on your hearing being shot, lol.

I don't think you can really go wrong with anything at $20-30, they all have similar construction and performance.

Ditch the Onkyo, they are the only brand that only has an active subwoofer crossover in stereo mode. It's very inconvenient if you add more speakers and there's no subwoofer output except when there is LFE.

Or powered monitors. Maybe tannoy reveal series?

I think you are confused about the multi-driver speakers. Two drivers will interfere each other at extremities but in a smaller seating range it will have greater output. In the vertical MTM array the source will radiate in a cylindrical pattern with null output above and below. If anything...

http://cgi.ebay.com/PAIR-LSi9-Cherry-Bookshelf-Loudspeakers-Polk-/230468781752?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Speakers_Subwoofers&hash=item35a90286b8 You could use bing cashback to bring this down to $670 shipped. This comes direct from Polk so you have a full warranty. I think there are also active auctions...

If you have $600 that should be enough to make an offer on a Polk Lsi9 on audiogon: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrmoni&1283314550&/Polk-LSI9-Cherry I believe these use a Vifa ring tweeter that goes out the 40 KHz...very impressive for soft dome tweeters as they usually do not go...

The Z-5500s are a good deal if you can get them under $150 used. Even though these did sell for ~$180 six years ago, but these days there's not much out there for PC audio.

Probably. If the bass doesn't feel there, either there's something wrong with the pre-amp in the sub, or your hearing is shot.

I would look at the Polk audio store for the Lsi series on ebay to start with, and on audiogon I would look at getting deals on AV123, Ascend, Energy, NHT, Paradigm, there are a lot others. Got any idea what you like? Size, appearance, listening tastes.

If you are expecting a crowd listening from a wide seating location you need a center channel, but otherwise you do not. Having two fronts taking the role of the center (phantom center) will double output (+3db) at the listening position at the cost of null output at the extremities (point...

There are speakers that can play 10 times louder than the X-540s with 1 watt of power...there's too many factors in performance to be put into 1 statistic. It's as useful as comparing horsepower between two cars to figure out which one will do a faster quarter mile.

Forget upgrading the sub, you won't get a meaningful upgrade in musical speed (cycle delay) to fit into your budget. Put down ~$350 on a Yamaha receiver. I say Yamaha not because their receivers are particularly exemplary in performance, but because they are the only brand (Onkyo, Denon, HK...

Unless you are planning on buying used, $100 won't get you much. It wouldn't have gotten you much in 2001 and today with the dollar worth about 30% less don't expect much.

Unless you have an ATI 5000 series video card, in which case HDMI is the way to go :P aZn_plyR, you've got a 5870; why aren't you using the hdmi port? Every sampling rate available (88.2, 176.4), plus 8 channel LPCM (gaming surround sound! multichannel FLAC!) and Dolby TruHD & DTS-Master...

The limiting factor is the CPU, you can get dropouts from optical or usb in both cases.

Aren't Bose A-Weighted too? lol

Onkyo HT-S5200 I believe runs around $450. The speakers are better than the Z-5500s and has a receiver.

Squirrel voices ftw.

lol "hardware DSP" card. If the content owners knew what they were doing, you wouldn't need to apply DSP. If you spend a lot time listening to incompetently mixed sounds that you would need DSP, you probably should be looking toward media that was created with higher budgets instead.

Why is that? High end speakers almost all use hex bolts :P

As opposed to? Hex bolts?

Allegedly, anyway. Although I'd like to believe so because I use the el cheap realtek audio on the hd5870!

There's nothing wrong with studio monitors, they are designed for near field. Their dispersion characteristics obviously are not optimal for casual placement (this is by design, to reduce listening strain, off-axis treble response is aggressively rolled off) but great if you just drop them next...

I would say yes because the audio chipsets I believe are in the motherboard northbridge, where the hd5870 is in the pci-e lane. I have no proof either way, but it's a logical hypothesis.

It can be, but most hdmi ports only really support stereo output. HDMI is digital so in theory the sound quality should not be any different than any other digital transports. If you use the HD5870 HDMI port you have access to: -8 channel uncompressed digital audio -dolby trueHD & dts master...

Maybe see what fits your budget in the Behringer Truth series on Amazon.

The Windows 7 default drivers are definitely better which is pretty sad, you get more features and more sampling rates than the Realtek drivers.

You won't get far with $150 for brand new speakers. You might want to look at ebay. The Logitech Z-Cinema were pretty decent for computer speakers when I heard them a while back and I think you can find them for ~$80 on ebay. They used to retail for $300 before they were discontinued.