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Best FLAT sounding PC speakers

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peacetilence

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I'm interested in knowing if such a thing exists in one package. I'm mostly looking for a 2.1 setup with clean and crisp flat sound as close as possible to the original source material. I don't wan't booming bass, something that muddles the mid range and high range frequencies together or has some kind of funky onboard EQ "enhancements". I'm sort of a fan of old analog sound recievers and speakers and wanted to know if something exists in a modern PC form or would I have to buy expencive monitors and a reciever?
 
Yup. :)
There are plenty of 2 point none near field monitors that resemble those comments.
 
for that much you might be able to get some real studio monitor speakers such as http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=23786&item=7320129222&rd=1
and buy a cheap reciever or amplifier.

or build some speakers and use an old reciever. that way is almost always better than computer speakers.. then you can spend all the money on the parts rather than just 1/5th like with computer speakers.
 
I would like to see such a thing myself. So far I have seen nothing. It seems like noone in the computer sound business knows how to make audiophile quality audio. It's all catered to little kiddies that like their boom boom boom. The same kind of kids that buy Pioneer or Cerwin Vega speakers and try to tell you how great they sound. One THOUSAND watts!!!! :eek: 18" woofer man!!

I had to spend thousands of dollars just to get a flat sounding set of monitors for my home stereo. I can just imagine the kind of cake you'll have to fork out if you can even find something like that for the computer.

I can tell you that the closest I have found so far is Yamaha for the computer, but even they leave a little something to be desired, especially in the mid range. A little too aggressive for my tastes.
 
peacetilence said:
I'm interested in knowing if such a thing exists in one package. I'm mostly looking for a 2.1 setup with clean and crisp flat sound as close as possible to the original source material. I don't wan't booming bass, something that muddles the mid range and high range frequencies together or has some kind of funky onboard EQ "enhancements". I'm sort of a fan of old analog sound recievers and speakers and wanted to know if something exists in a modern PC form or would I have to buy expencive monitors and a reciever?
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If you don't feel like getting a reciever.. get's some quality powered studio monitors... "quality" is determined by $$$ "most" of the time. Sometimes you can find "gems" for a good price. I have a set of old Alesis Monitor Ones.. which aren't the flattest monitors (far from it) but they sure do make music sound good.
 
SirKenin said:
I would like to see such a thing myself. So far I have seen nothing. It seems like noone in the computer sound business knows how to make audiophile quality audio. It's all catered to little kiddies that like their boom boom boom. The same kind of kids that buy Pioneer or Cerwin Vega speakers and try to tell you how great they sound. One THOUSAND watts!!!! :eek: 18" woofer man!!

I had to spend thousands of dollars just to get a flat sounding set of monitors for my home stereo. I can just imagine the kind of cake you'll have to fork out if you can even find something like that for the computer.

I can tell you that the closest I have found so far is Yamaha for the computer, but even they leave a little something to be desired, especially in the mid range. A little too aggressive for my tastes.
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You want studio monitors. Budget about $200.
 
GodsMadClown said:
You want studio monitors. Budget about $200.
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That's not bad actually. Way better than I expected. My logitechs cost a fair bit more than that and they are anything but audiophile quality. They are good when I am playing games though.
 
SirKenin said:
That's not bad actually. Way better than I expected. My logitechs cost a fair bit more than that and they are anything but audiophile quality. They are good when I am playing games though.
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Of course you can spend more, and get improvements. The OP didn't mention budget. It would be useful if he did.
 
Hmm, I think I might as well go with a reciever and a couple of pro monitors. What are good brands to look at? I'd like to keep it under $300 with the bulk of it going to the reciever so I can maybe upgrade the speakers in the future (or vice versa if that would be better).

To note, I really love analog sound, nothing sounds better to me than having a slab of plastic LP with proper EQ settings at a loud decible, I just can't deal with the bulk and cheesy look of having something from 1985 next to my desk...
 
Dump the receiver, just get some active monitors, considering you seem interested primarily in music.
 
I don't really know of any audiophile quality receivers alone for under $300, never mind with speakers. Again, the only thing that really comes close in that range is a Yamaha. None of the other brands are worth talking about. Yamaha truly destroys their competition in the bracket, but still, if you are an audiophile, you will still find the Yamaha lacking.
 
NAD C320BEE is as close as you can get to audiophile quaility for cheap (400mrsp) but thats out of the price range. Teac makes a decent 2 channel amp for 100ish, but the level at which you can get some a great sounding amp / speaker combo is probubly more like 600-800 in my experence.
 
I bought these roland active studio monitors and still waiting for delivery. They are only 10 watts per channel (dm20 is twice as this if you want) but I hope I have done the right thing considering music quality.

only $145.00 as you see. DM-20 goes for about $250

http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-ROL-DM10.html

I wish I could compare them to logitech z-2300 and megaworks 250d.
 
for nearfield use, high power numbers aren't that important unless the speakers are extremely inefficiant, a 50wx2 would do the job fine, and you may still be nowhere near to overtaxing the amp.

Pretty much on my 65x2 yamaha, I never even took it past 25%, and I was driving speakers with an 84Db sensitivity to rather strong volume levels. GIven I have doubts about it putting out a real 65x2, I think it would more possibly be 45x2 with it's input power specs....but it still shows that little power is necessary.

Just go for some nice speakers, and pick up a reasonable receiver/amp. I found so long as the receiver/amp is reasonably built and running a speaker load it was designed for, it won't do anything really bad to the sound.
 
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