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post #16 of 19
12/11/02 at 9:32pm
Another vote here for the Monsoons. I have two pair -- one at home and one at the office. Like mini-maggies on your desktop. The 700 is my favorite, but it's an older model.
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post #17 of 19
12/12/02 at 3:41am

Re: Re: Best Computer Speakers sub $150

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Originally posted by MacDEF
I'm going to go against the grain of this thread and recommend that you spend just a tad more and get this:

http://www.tivoliaudio.com/pM2TPE.htm



Why?

1) Better sound -- IMO&E, the Model Two provides better overall sound than any comparable "computer speaker" (including all the ones mentioned here that I've heard).
I am going to have to go against the grain of this and say, the Model 2 is quite horrible as an all around usage speaker, IMO.

I tried to use my Model 2 as a general pair of speakers to plug everything into to see if I could possibly live with them as my PC speakers. I tried very hard to like it. But honestly, once you start feeding it the more "sophisticated" sounds that you get in gaming and from a CD player, the Model 2 quickly becomes overwhelmed. The majorly underwhelming parts were the bass and treble...you end up with a rather muddy sound from the warm midrange and boxy bass. The Model 2 simply can't handle the sounds that eminate from a good rocket launcher fight in FPS games. On the flip side, when I tried to keep it on the quiet side, I found that its pot was horribly imbalanced at lower volume levels.

Overall, for me the Model 2 makes a great tuner to hook up to external speakers, given that I have the freedom to use external speakers. For radio playback, if forced to use the internal speakers, I could somewhat live with it. But I definitely would not be able to live with the Model 2 as a general PC speaker for gaming and the whatnot.
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post #18 of 19
12/12/02 at 3:48am
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Originally posted by antness
ian,

Those look great! I am sure by the specs that they are better than the Diamonds. No sub, though, so that's an added expense unless you can live with 55Hz and up which is pretty poor.
The Celestion SL600 was one of John Atkinson's favorite speakers, and has a real bass rolloff at 55 Hz. You'd be shocked at how little information is down there. I used a pair of those for years, and a subwoofer wasn't really needed. If the speaker really goes down to 55 Hz, that's plenty for a computer speaker. Most computer subs aren't going to go much lower.
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post #19 of 19
12/12/02 at 2:48pm
Thanks hirsch, I was going to post a similar message when I had time
I just used a test tone generator on my computer and got bass to about 51 hz.
We all know how much specs mean, but do they sound bass shy? Nope. They can make the room shake at high volumes.
I was very against getting a sub for my computer system, because I wanted very clean, tight bass (not to mention I didn't want to piss off my wallmate, the walls in our apartment are just plywood in some places). Every other computer system I've heard wasn't quite right. These computer speakers are the best I've heard in that regard.
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