Your Speaker Setup

What speaker setup do you have?

  • 2/2.1

    Votes: 53 34.4%

  • 4/4.1

    Votes: 10 6.5%

  • 5.1

    Votes: 60 39.0%

  • 6.1

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • 7.1

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Headphones

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 8 5.2%
  • Total voters
    154
A vynil record has much better sound than a CD, regardless of amplifiers. Only a DVD-Audio could come close to that sound...
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Wouldnt it be a different story if the entire thing was produced digitally? :)
 
The whole Universe is analog macroscopically (the quantum level has nothing to do with our perceptions). Therefore digital representations are just a faint approximation of reality. The only good thing about digital is noise reduction. But when it's about music, I'd rather go with a noisy analog recording...
 
The whole Universe is analog macroscopically (the quantum level has nothing to do with our perceptions).
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Well duh i know THAT but a sound produced digitally, while perhaps not being able to be "perfectly" reproduced would be better reproduced digitally would it not? (i.e., suppose a define a sound by a mathematical formula) or would analog still be better? :)
 
a sound produced digitally would be better reproduced digitally
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That’s correct. But digitally produced sounds have nothing to do with music (you just can’t perceive the performer’s feelings if he plays on a synthesizer).
Where are those good old days when the Queen stated on their records: "No Synthesizers were used on this Album"...
The only synthesizer that could be used to perform art is the theremin:
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which is, in fact, an analog device.
 
That’s correct. But digitally produced sounds have nothing to do with music (you just can’t perceive the performer’s feelings if he plays on a synthesizer).
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It was more of a theoretical question :P ... i cant tell nor care for the difference between mono and 7.1 :P ... if its loud its loud heehee
 
I go with headphones, either I am too cheap to go out and buy some nice bose speakers or I like the feeling I am in my own little computer world. I just plug my headphones on my head, blast my itunes, and i am set ;)
 
Amma Wario said:
a sub
eg .5 would mean that the guy has 5 subs
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It's absolutely needless to have more than one sub. The low frequency sounds are captured by your lung and bones, not by your ear, so you can't detect the direction the sound comes from. So every extra sub is just waste of money...
 
heeheehee, I just have those $5 2 speaker thing, and a nice set of headphones. The speakers are really crappy, but that could be from being dropped on the floor too many times:rolleyes:
 
It's absolutely needless to have more than one sub. The low frequency sounds are captured by your lung and bones, not by your ear, so you can't detect the direction the sound comes from. So every extra sub is just waste of money...
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I don't agree with that. Your correct about the low frequecies not being audible, but most subs are in the range of about 25-150 Hz and humans can hear down to about 65 Hz so subwoofers do put out in the audible range too. There's also the fact that it takes more power output (volume) to hear low frequencies hence the A and C weighting scales.
 
I have the Gigaworks S750 7.1 THX from Creative, it's their most expensive system but damn I don't like it at all and I'm gettin' rid of it soon enough. Creative choose to use a way to small bassport in the sub which cause alot of air turbulence & noise. This is just one of the things i hate about the system.
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It doesn't come close to Logitechs Z-680 5.1 THX which I had before, that was a high quality system I loved and by far the best one I've ever owned. I remeber it had at least twice as big port despite it's slightly less wattage on the sub. I think it had around a 4" port. It played every kind of music way better than this Creative crap, not to mention dvd's..
 
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at the moment I've got a 4.1 set from Phillips which is a budget set but sounds rather nice. This week sometime I plan on picking up a budget 1.5 set (Logitech X-530 5.1) http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2,CONTENTID=9067 I feel that these will fit the bill nicely as I hate to spend lots on sound but still want the best quality sound for my buck :-).

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:-) Of course that would be a 5.1 set (not 1.5) LOL. I'll plug these of course into my old but trusty Soundblaster Live! sound card.
 
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Blue said:
at the moment I've got a 4.1 set from Phillips which is a budget set but sounds rather nice. This week sometime I plan on picking up a budget 1.5 set (Logitech X-530 5.1) http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2,CONTENTID=9067 I feel that these will fit the bill nicely as I hate to spend lots on sound but still want the best quality sound for my buck :-).
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Make sure you aint payin the retail $80 for them, I'm getting the same thing for $50 at Compusa.com (I go to the actual store)
 
yeah

I had only 2 speakers at one time until I got my surround sound and now I will never go back...........thank god for surround sound :)
 
You can get Logitech Z640s for 60CAD (MSN me and ill point them out )
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Your set to away on msn ;-) so I'll ask here :-P.. You suppose those are better then the Logitech X-530 5.1? I've not looked into them but the reviews for the 530's where promising. I've not picked anything up yet but want to soon.

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I've noticed that they have the z640's at the same place I was originaly going to buy them (prob. not now though) and they where actualy cheaper but still $74. where as the x-530's where $82. Also looked real quickly and they seem to be around the same catagory as far as speakers go. Is there really that much difference between them?
 
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