I imagine what you are hunting is someone to say -X are great, get them; y
are horrible so avoid.
In making your decision, keep in mind the following:
1) How good are your ears? You can end up throwing dollars at sound you
will never really hear. After 20 years of music training, I can "hear"
music pretty good. I have visited some friends houses where they wanted
to
show off their new expensive Bose system. My first reaction (and that of
another well trained musician there also) was -ugh, you got rooked (of
course we acted like we liked them, to be polite).
2) What type of music do you listen to? If you want the throbbing
bass-then, there are speakers that do that more effectively than others.
3) What size room and how loud do you listen? This will likely play a
role
in the RMS watts. If it is a bedroom and you don't plan on breaking
glass,
under 100 watts will likely be plenty.
I picked up a pair of inexpensive Phillips MMS321 desktop speakers at
Christmas to listen to music in my home office, played through the
computer,
under $60. It is a 2.0 system with 40 watts RMS, 80 peek. As I wanted
something to fit on my desk and wasn't interested in a subwoofer, these
have
been fairly good. No, they don't give the thump, thump, bass vibration
that
you can "feel." But I mainly listen to big band and jazz, especially
trumpet playing. They do very well in the mid and upper range, and cover
enough of the bass that I can live with it. Again, bought for want I
want -limited space, 12 ' x 12' room, not wanting to knock the wall down,
main frequency interest in mid and high range.
Best of luck. Let us know what you get.
Steve
"Curmudgeon" <leave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> All -
>
> Sorry for the extensive crossposting, but I wasn't sure which group was
> best targeted by this request for information and opinions.
>
> Thanks to the generosity of my brother, I have $200 to spend at Amazon
> and I have determined that my primary need is a new set of speakers for
> my Macintosh. I have loaded my entire CD library into iTunes and would
> like to begin using it as the playback-system-of-choice so I can begin
> selling off these little silver coasters. Everything's been encoded as
> AAC (128 kbps, 44.100 kHz), so the quality should be pretty decent.
>
> I have been running an original Cambridge SoundWorks system until just
> recently, but unfortunately it began cutting out on me as it warmed up.
> I'm certain that I could have it repaired, but I wanted to see if there
> might be a better system available to replace it. (In the meantime, I
> have been limited to an original set of Bose Roommates. They make some
> noise, but it isn't very pleasing!)
>
> The only demands I'll place on my new system are music reproduction (of
> all genres). I am not a game player, nor do I expect to use the system
> for surround-sound DVD playback. I just want a set of speakers that I
> can plug in, sit back, and enjoy.
>
> Please let me know what you would recommend and, more im****tantly, what
> you'd avoid. If I need to spend a bit more than $200, that's OK.
>
> And for the record, this is a 466 MHz G4 Macintosh running OSX 10.4.11
> and iTunes 7.5 (although I can't imagine why any of that should matter
> very much).
>
> Cheers, and Happy New Year to all!
>
> Mudge
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