I'm looking for some new 2.1 speakers for my PC

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dixierose

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I think that's what you call them. It is for my desktop PC so I don't need 5 or 6 speakers all over the office. Doesn't have to be surround sound as this will only be used for transcribing doctors dictating medical reports. It does have to have a headphone jack in one of the speakers and will only be used with headphones. I don't mind having a subwoofer. I don't want wireless speakers. Willing to spend up to $150.00, but would rather keep it at $100.00 if possible. This may be a dumb question, but do speakers ever come with a band equalizer like tape decks have? It would be so nice if I could fine tune the voice when it is a bit muffled/growly/etc. My PC sound card has a 3-band equalizer but that just isn't enough sometimes. Of course, I realize you can't improve bad quality dicatation that much, but every little bit helps. Would appreciate anyone's input.
 
Some speakers come with a bass and treble control in addition to the on/off/volume controls. That's only handy if you can easily reach the speakers. I would be surprised if your software equalizer cannot emulate a hardware control. The software control can usually be set with presets which speeds up changing from one audio setting to another (eg music to transcription).

Your experience with a hardware equalizer may be due to using that in a proper hi-fi system which has much better audio than a PC system (speakers, amps and room arrangement). Most PC systems are limited by size and the need to be magnetically screened.

I recently replaced some Altec Lansing speakers that had bass and treble controls on one speaker. I bought some cheap Logitech speakers on sale that have the on/off/volume controls and headphone socket on a separate control that you can place anywhere around you. That is handy if your speakers are out of normal reach and extra-handy with headphones.
 
A further thought, if you are only going to use headphones then you may be better off sticking with what you have and going for good quality, comfortable, noise-cancelling headphones. The sound quality in your situation is going to be no better than the amp in your soundcard no matter what speakers you connect.

For convenience, an extension cable for the headphones may help if you don't go for the more mobile headphone socket setup I mentioned.
 
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