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Help on speaker selection 2.0/2.1 ! Edifier R1600Τ/ M-Audio Studiophile Av40/ Audioengine 2

post #1 of 13
10/21/11 at 2:37pm
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Hello guys,
I am a keen music listener and I enjoy listening to all kinds of music but especially jazz, classical and rock. I am searching for a new pair of speakers which I will connect to my desktop computer.

I have noticed that most pc speakers offer poor sound quality and I would love to go for something better.

For the time being I am looking into something relatively compact but I am also trying to look into bigger, 2.1 sound systems but no more than that.

My budget is relatively low, 70-110$ but at this period everyone struggles over money and I can't afford any more than that unfortunately.

I found some nice monitor speakers and I would love to hear your opinion:

1.Behringer Monitor MS16
2.Edifier R1600Τ
3.M-Audio Studiophile Av40
4.Audioengine 2
5.Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 (Used set at this time!)

I know they are not professional speakers, but as I said I am just a home user who just enjoys to listen to music!

Your help is much appreciated,thank you!

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post #2 of 13
10/21/11 at 2:42pm

The Edifier R1600Τ is the best of that lot.
 

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post #3 of 13
10/22/11 at 3:35pm
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Just to make things even more challenging I have to add Edifier R2000T speakers to the list as well as Q Acoustics 2020, which if I am not mistaken is a pair so I will have to get some decent amp along with them!

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post #4 of 13
10/23/11 at 7:30am

The edifier's are excellent speakers for the money and the R2000T is the top of there range in monitors, the Q Acoustics 2020 are passive and not active speakers so will require an seperate amp which will bring the price up.

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post #5 of 13
10/23/11 at 2:05pm
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I want to add a correction here,my budget was referring to pounds, in US dollars that would be 110-190$.

 

Thank you for your reply JRG1990, I was wondering if you had listened to either R2000T or R1600T and if yes, what's your experience with them?

I would also be obliged if you could suggest me a cheap (30-50$) amp to go along with the Q acoustics.

 

I guess I will have to decide between the Edifiers,Q acoustics and A2's.

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post #6 of 13
10/24/11 at 12:45pm

if you were referring to pounds then why the hell use the dollar symbol?

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post #7 of 13
10/24/11 at 3:26pm
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My bad, sorry!

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post #8 of 13
10/25/11 at 5:50am

The R1600t is a netruelish sounding speaker, it is quite detailed and clean sounding considering it's price, i'm not sure how it will compare to the q acoustics speakers from what i read the q acoustics speakers are very good.

This amp should drive them fine http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muse-M50-TPA3123-Stereo-Amplifier/dp/B005OSFWPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319546984&sr=8-1 .

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post #9 of 13
10/25/11 at 6:17am

To make things even more interesting, Amazon(U.S.) has a Gold Box offer on some set of M-Audio reference speakers that will begin at 10:00am Pacific Time (A little less than 4 hours).  Don't know yet what model, but you may want to check it out.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27

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post #10 of 13
10/26/11 at 12:01am

Hmm if u considering passive/amp and for near field/PC Audio hit a T-Amp and Roth Oli 10s?

http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/page/moreinfo.cfm/Product_ID/7615

Another option : use Gumtree (UK) to fish out used classic NAD amps on the cheap - these will also give warm sounding music paired with half decent speakers beerchug.gif

 

Edit NAD 3020 40 quid hehe

http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/nad-3020-amplifier/90235232

http://nadelectronics.com/awards/Hi-Fi-That-Rocked

 

 


Edited by trog - 10/26/11 at 12:17am
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post #11 of 13
10/27/11 at 11:55am
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I think that's a nice idea, NAD 3020 looks great. I must confess that I feel kind of intimidated as I have never before been involved with audio hardware. I am quite frankly embarrassed to ask this but how can I connect the NAD to the computer audio jack?

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post #12 of 13
10/28/11 at 3:51am

You run a 3.5mm male to RCA red/white cable from your PC's line out to the back of the amp (mostly AUX)

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post #13 of 13
10/28/11 at 4:14am

I too recommend NADs receivers, even 18 years on, the NAD 716 is still running  well and packs major power for price. R2000t runs cheap, I found a distributor in the neighbouring country and I'm going to compare the R2000T and R1600T3 there. The T3 version packs a lot of bass I heard so I'm rather unsure about neutral sounding. The R2000T  looks pretty attractive though.


Edited by firev1 - 10/28/11 at 4:18am
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