PC Speaker recommendation

[Cookie Muncher]

creative for the FTW. so mannnyy yearsss still rock solid and great audio

 

[wwenze]

speakers are one thing that never really improve over the years, infact audio quality went down instead because of wireless and bluetooth streaming =(

go test hear a aego m 2.1. these pair of speakers are so old but yet still remain so relevant till date.

Or maybe because people stopped acting pretentious that they can hear the difference between vinyl and bluetooth

 

[AhhHoNG]

Last time young time listen to high quality CD music, now all Spotify, YouTube.

you can always subscribe to apple music or tidal for lossless music ma.

 

[AhhHoNG]

No need say CD music... even MP3 music can be better quality than wat u get these days on Spotify, Youtube which sadly is also where I get my daily fix of music now...

last time mp3 are all encoded in 128kbps or 96... Spotify highest quality stream is 320kbps. The difference which is nt audible for 99.9% of the population vs lossless(CD quality).

 

[roses_are_rosie]

Altec Lansing
ATP 3

 

[roses_are_rosie]

My Altec Lansing Speakers almost 20 years.

Atp3

10char

 

[roses_are_rosie]

i swear by this. im still using it. good midrange and tweeters with a pretty decent sub for boom boom boom

Mine started to give way

 

[8-lane]

last time mp3 are all encoded in 128kbps or 96... Spotify highest quality stream is 320kbps. The difference which is nt audible for 99.9% of the population vs lossless(CD quality).

From wat I remember... most mp3s were encoded in 128kbps but there were some in 320kbps

 

[One Piece]

Atp3

10char

Altec Lansing 621.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/365696/Altec-Lansing-621.html

 

[virtualape]

Mine started to give way

After how many years? Mine iirc was 2005. I use almost daily

 

[Dr.Vijay]

I'm quite surprised to find this discussion thread in EDMW.

Can I move this to Hardware Clinic, where it should belong?

 

[wwenze]

I'm quite surprised to find this discussion thread in EDMW.

Can I move this to Hardware Clinic, where it should belong?

And then the thread here will die while EDMW start another thread.

 

[kaixax555]

There is a speaker thread?

Well I just bought a Edifier MR4 so not looking for anything new right now

 

[Teo Ming Ern]

What I can say after just buying a Creative Stage Air V2 is that unless your soundbar is really wide or you sit far away enough, the stereo separation isn't good enough... my super old Altec Lansing ACS 45.1 was much better in this respect...

 

[Jeffrankko]

I am thinking of downsizing my speakers from JBL LSR305PMkII to something smaller/compact.

I am looking at iLoud MTM or Creative Katana V2x. Not sure what do you guys think?

 

[tigerwoods]

What I can say after just buying a Creative Stage Air V2 is that unless your soundbar is really wide or you sit far away enough, the stereo separation isn't good enough... my super old Altec Lansing ACS 45.1 was much better in this respect...

All these Creative Stage n Creative Katana sound bars are just too short, small soundstage, they sound like mono speakers.

 

[Phen8210]

What I can say after just buying a Creative Stage Air V2 is that unless your soundbar is really wide or you sit far away enough, the stereo separation isn't good enough... my super old Altec Lansing ACS 45.1 was much better in this respect...

All these soundbar is for people that don't know how to setup stereo placement and they will say very good

 

[RollingGoodTime]

just got a edifier R1280DBS and now waiting for T5 subwoofer to come.

to replace my creative T3 that just died on me recently. served for more than 12 years though

 

[wwenze]

All these Creative Stage n Creative Katana sound bars are just too short, small soundstage, they sound like mono speakers.

Ok-ish lar, at least they are quite physically long for a PC sound bar. And with proper EQ it can rectify the small-speaker feeling. But EQ is a *must*.

And then of course if you put it in the middle of a TV then no amount of EQ can save it.

Most soundbars nowadays (those over $100) also have some speaker-widening or virtual-speaker feature that can help with the feeling.

Soundbars are still a solution for people who somehow don't have space for bookshelves. Mostly due to aesthetic reasons.

 

[Teo Ming Ern]

All these soundbar is for people that don't know how to setup stereo placement and they will say very good

I was just after a small neat solution without significant number of wires hanging around... sound quality wasn't very high on my agenda at the end of the day... clarity was and so was volume levels... both of which the soundbar met including the space requirement...