Speaker are speakers. The perfect human ear hears from 20 - 22,999 hz. As you are exposed to load sounds your hearing is damaged on the high end so it is unlikely you can above 20,000 by the time you are 20. You may be able to sense vs hear a little higher and you can surely sense 5hz as a vibration. High end is fairly easy to reproduce low end is not. Low end requires more and more power to create the low notes because of all the air they must move. Range, distortion and efficency are what you look at when you buy a speaker. Sub woofers are extremely innefficent. Normally computer speakers are garbage. If you want good sound you 'pipe' your music to a real stereo. Even a powerful sound card can't replace a preamp. Extreme music need extreme power because you need to move air. Moving lots of air requires lots of clean (no distortion) power. It is pretty much like a car. You would not expect a car to run on some 9 volts. The same with speakers. Just buy speakers that sound good to you. You are never going to get a sound card to put out great music unless you are piping it into a real stereo. I burn CDs/DVDs and play them on my stereo if I want quality sound. Salesmen will tell you anything to make a buck. Just look at the range , watts it can handle and distortion stats.
whether it be 4.1/5.1/7.1 none of that matters if your speakers are crap i can suggest to you not to use USB speakers, get a good audio card (5.1/7.1).....make sure its X2 and SENSURA enabled....that allows for different sound configurations and probably means the card is capable of higher quality sound cheap speakers/PCI cards http://www.geeks.com/ -tripplite
tripplite, I you are more up on sound cards than I am. What is the difference between 4.1, 5.1 and 7.1? I do find it hard to believe a sound card could come close to a even a low end HIFi let alone a good system. Being in a computer, next to RF generating devices and having so little power makes me wonder how good even the best could be.
@terryfox Some decent computer speakers are Logitech Z5300, Z5500 or Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 5.1 It all really comes down to how much you want to spend. They are never going to sound as good as home speakers, but the above brands sound pretty good. @Mez All of these systems use built in amplifers, your audio card just sends the signal to the built in amp.
Icanbe, thanks for trying to be informative. Yes, I know they have amplifiers. I have had a pair for quite some time. I am just trying to point out computer speakers are not in the same league as HiFi speakers. You pay more and get less with computer speakers. If you want good sound cheap put your money in a HiFi not by getting top of the line computer speakers. For instance Logitech Z5300, Z5500 both cost in the internet 150-175 USD. Their frequency responce is 35 - 20000 Hz and I cound not find distortion information which is usually a curve distortion vs watts. They are only 39 wats RMS. They are not HiFi. Even though it has a subwoffer 35 Hz sucks! My ipod does 10Hz. My HiFi does 4 Hz! The base range is what counts for me. Base responce is the expensive end of the range. I bought my mother a little system for $150 this Christmas with much better performance(150 watts 200-20,000 Hz). I like most persons over 20 can't hear the high notes any way. Still I bet those speakers are a bit better than mine. I only paid $50. It also has a sub woofer. The only point I am trying to make is don't put all your money into computer speakers if you want HiFi sound. If you are strapped for money get a small cheap HiFi and plug that system into your sound card. If you aren't strapped for money, you can buy both. When you buy audio product check the stats! I have seen $250 isolation ear buds that had worse stats than $7 ear bugs. I bought the $7 ones. If you want to look cool and do not care about the sound buy the more expensive ones.
Speakers hmm?? Anything but Creative Labs. same for anything. Creative are finished. http://forums.creative.com/creative...ead.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=170
That is very true, just because something is more expensive, dosen't make it better, especially when it comes to audio equipment. Bells and whistles don't make a good piece of equipment, top quality internal components make good equipment. I know computer speakers are never going to sound as good as home speakers, not even close, but the guy was just looking for some opinions on decent computer speakers and the logitech and klipsch lines are good as far as computer speakers go.
simply the amount of speakers, 7.1 one will have seven speakers and one sub wolfer/mini amp, 7.1 surround sound with good speakers can get you very loud very high quality audio..... yup your right but 7.1 is very powerful, with a blu ray media in my computer the sound is just amazing
