[gui-talk] Speakers and Amplifiers:

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi Don,

late last year, I wanted to upgrade the audio capabilities of my Dell PC 
because I play a fair amount of music files on it, and the stock speakers 
I'd been bearing with for a couple of years were just too lame to deal with 
anymore. I spent a lot of time looking through many types of speaker systems 
for a computer on Amazon, over a broad price range and including both 
two-speaker systems and ones with a separate subwoofer to handle the bass 
tones better. Listed as 2.1 types, like what I bought. I'm sure you don't 
need a 5-speaker system. I certainly didn't. I think video gamers and people 
who watch movies with good soundtracks on their PC's are into that stuff, 
but not me. So these have a subwoofer, which I have sitting on a corner of 
my desk and which other people might position on the floor, and the overall 
sound is rich and crisp and full.tier All these are self-powered and plug in 
to the power strip, which is pretty common.

The ones I finally decided on, and feel pretty happy with, were these:
Altec Lansing VS2521 2.1
and they cost $57 at the time.

I've got a good ear for musical fidelity and find these speakers adequate in 
those terms. If I have any complaint, it's that they don't have even a few 
more watts of power than they do, because then they could handle the wide 
dynamic range of a lot of my classical music and much of my jazz, as well, 
where the range of loud to soft is wider than in pop music recordings, and 
if you have more power, you don't have to turn up your system all the way to 
hear the quieter passages properly, and then blow the top of your head off 
when the playing gets louder. I'm not explaining that quite well enough. 
Even impeccably-produced pop music is pretty compressed in terms of its 
dynamic range, and that isn't a put-down of rock and roll or anything. but 
if your needs are mostly about pop music and other stuff that isn't such a 
challenge for a stereo system in terms of dynamic range, then these will 
sound about fifty times better than what you're hearing now.

Good luck finding something that works for you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:14 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Speakers and Amplifiers:


I've got this new Dell laptop which is actually a pretty nice machine except 
that it's got crappy speakers.

I'd like to buy a small but powerful system so that playing audio files or 
sports you get a good listen.

A volume control would be nice too so that you don't have to mess with the 
system volume when volume levels change.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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