The last number of posts addressed the original question, just as I did.
Sorry-I have a life and don't always read 50 posts on every topic, though
I
did read the most recent. If it offends you, don't read them. Dude
"stevericks" <stevericks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>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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