I'm no speaker expert but I think I'd be looking at Powered since I'm just running out of a MacBook (no amp).  Also I won't have the money to buy with for another few weeks so I can't use a 4th of July sale, sadly.   Quote:

Two different houses I want to put them in. 

I live at my parents' home right now and will be going to college next year, so I cannot modify my room at all for these speakers.   Source: MacBook or iPhone directly (if you think that won't work well for this level of speaker, let me know what else I should put in the signal path)  ...

I haven't heard either, but I've been researching them for a while now, I'm getting myself a Boa. So this is all based on what I've read, a compilation of what everybody else on this forum seems to say about these amps. The audio quality won't be equal, although they're in the same price...

I'm actually in just about the same situation as you, with the same references. I had AKG K 26 Ps for my daily (loud) bus ride, I lost them, I got a pair of Grado SR-60s (with bowl pads, so they were effectively Grado SR-80s) and they broke on the bus (not to mention the lack isolation made me...

I saw a pair of Grado SR-125 headphones on the head of somebody in my high school library today! I ran up to the guy to take a picture and talk to him, and he stared at me. Figuring he must be a Head-Fi member, I said something along the lines of "Head-Fi! Head-Fi! It's OK!". He kept staring at...

A few years ago, I figured out that my iBuds sucked. Looking for new headphones, for some reason my first thought was to simply type "headphones.com" into my address bar and see where it led me. I accidentally left out the "s", bringing me to headphone.com: HeadRoom. Although I figured...

Europe

Obviously, I was listening to some very angry music through my Denon D5000s as I took this.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but check out everything by Saul Williams. He does a sort of mix between hip-hop, slam poetry, rap, and grunge that's awesomely fun and really deep. Try "Amethyst Rock Star" for a poemy feel, "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" for a very...

Pancakes, from the International House.

^ || || || || Sacrilege And as for me, my Denon D5000s.

Everything Is Illuminated - 8/10 The people watching it with me said it was too heavy-handed, obvious, etc. I agree it was a predictable plot, but I was captured through the whole movie. I liked it.

Find the 2-4 songs that are still available by De Capulet. They broke up in 2006 without ever releasing a record, and took down their MySpace, but their music was brilliant; "Love at a High Speed" is my personal favorite. Plus the lead, Jakob, is in new band soon called The Record Life and...

"99 Problems" - Jay-Z