"Audiophile" brand hi-fi gear is ludicrously over-priced and over-hyped. You can indeed get some pretty good quality speakers for good prices if you step away from the audiophile kool aid. It's probably telling that, to my knowledge, actual sound engineers don't use those exotic brands, and they're the ones mastering the albums you're playing upon said exotic audiophile brands... I have a pair of Presonus' "Eris" monitor (as in sound monitor) speakers either side of my (graphical) monitor at home; they seem to do a good job too, and I'd recommend them if someone was looking. The only hiccup I've found with *some* of the cheaper or PC-speaker-originated brands is that the capacitors are woeful; I've heard numerous examples where the power supply filtering caps have gone bad, and there's an increasing amount of 50 Hz hum over time. I've bothered to replace the capacitors on some items, but I wish they wouldn't fail so fast! Note: This should really be on LUV-talk (to which I'm not subscribed) but maybe the mods will take mercy as it's a weekend ;) -Toby On 4 December 2014 at 09:28, <zlinw@mcmedia.com.au> wrote:
Now being a glutton for punishment, I once again put my head in the lions mouth... I post this as it may be helpfull, good speakers at a reasonable price being a ____very____ rare species. Now I like a good sounding sound system while I would not call myself a HIFI fanatic. I did ___very___ early on (early 1980's) purchase a top end system. The AMP was and is a Pioneer A88X, still regarded as agood amp. THe speakers though are Magnaplanar MG2A's regarded to this day as amongst the best speakers ever made. Now I have always been looking for something that sounds at least something like the MG2A's, but at a fraction of the price for my PC system. THe other day I recieved delivery of a pair of Microlab Solo 9c amplified speakers. These are big PC speakers being 575mm high by a round 200 wide and 323 deep. The sound though really is good, good tight (not drummy) base and real clear sound imaging. Playing tunes like The cat empire, steal the light and the Skyrim by Pter Hollens and Lindsay Stirling was really soemthing. Now these speakers are __better__ definitely clearer (in my opinion) than Maudio's AV40 or even the BX5a's (both of which I have) but they are only $199 from PCcase gears, a ridiculosly low price for such good speakers. While they are big they go well either side of my 30" 2560x1600 monitor. Speakers highly recommended, do not let the low price fool you, Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
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