Recommend small desktop 2.0 speakers

[MetalX]

Sub-$100 price range would be nice. These are for my desktop at work. It is not an office environment but more of a manufacturing type with a good bit of noise on the floor and I'm sick and tired of listening to other people's shitty Shinedown/Nickelback nonsense. I want to rock the house with some Grateful Dead and I want some decent speakers with good reproduction. I'll be using a crappy onboard sound on a Dell PC and I would like for these to be pretty small. Bass isn't an issue at all.


Also I see the other thread with a similar request but his budget is $100-200 and I do not want to spend that much on speakers for work that I will never be able to crank up.

 

[criccio]

Just to be clear, you aren't going to be rocking the house with any $100 speakers. My recommendations:

http://www.zzounds.com/item--SAMSAM3A

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALEM1A320USB

The Alesis' actually have a built in DAC and accept a USB input, so you wouldn't have to use the onboard Dell soundcard.

 

[MetalX]

Rock the house in that context was more speaking of the source rather than the speakers, thanks for the recommendations.

 

[criccio]

Also, take a look though this thread if you are willing to stretch your budget a bit more.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1415700


*EDIT* Haha, i just saw your edit. Nevermind then.

 

[defaultluser]

In addition to the above recommendations (very nice suggestions).

I've heard good things about the M-AUDIO AV 30s, which can be had for $100. These are a cut-down version of the widely-loved AV 40 speakers.

You actually have a lot of choices since you're willing to spend $100. We would have told you to go packing if you came on here with a budget of $50 or so

 

[criccio]

Hmm, I didn't even know M-Audio offered an AV30. I thought it went straight from the AV40's to the way-to-small AV20's. Good to know.