Speakers

Post by **Grimmie** » February 9th, 2009, 0:21

I'm buying some Creative Gigaworks T40 Series II speakers. Bit of a mouthful.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001IZZ2PO

What speakers do you guys have, are they lovely, can I see them?

Post by **deject** » February 9th, 2009, 0:26

I'm running an optical output to a cheapass home-theater-in-a-box setup I got over 6 years ago.

Post by **FatherJack** » February 9th, 2009, 0:28

The ones inside my main monitor. I wear headphones if I'm bothered about listening to something properly/TS/telling where footsteps are coming from, etc.

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » February 9th, 2009, 0:30

No pics atm as I'm hundreds of miles from my setup. I can however tell you Grim that I have an optical cable running to rather large pair of amps and speakers and subs and other assorted sillyness.

It makes the floor shake and cupboard doors open... in the rooms upstairs

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » February 9th, 2009, 0:42

A 5.1 system on my home PC, a really old Creative Labs Cambridge set, doesn't have optical connection on the box if I recall correctly, I got them when I had my Athlon 1800 XP as an upgrade from the 4.1 Creative set, which got given to my brother and are still in use.
Quite awesome mind, very loud and still cut the mustard now.

Edit: Very simliar to this product (might actually be the same one, but I could have sworn the box was more blue than green):

My uni pc is using crappy old lcd monitor speakers, 2 of them. Sound quality is lacking, distorting when I had music playing while playing Chrono Trigger t'other day, but thanks to having thin walls and floors, I'd have a sub pretty much off anyway to appease the neighbours so it's no biggie.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 9th, 2009, 0:52

I have some cheapy speakers from richer sounds with a hefty enough sub hanging off a sony AV box (on Ixos XHS233 cable), fed by optical from my puter. (or my PS1, if i'm in the mood for CDs)

They work well enough, not super great sounding, but fine for movies and gaming when you need some surround.

Also Robbed some ProMedia GMX D-5.1's off Eion while i was in merkaland, very, very nice, but hal still has them

Edited for photos (excuse the jpeg)

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » February 9th, 2009, 9:23

I have this;

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speak ... 8&cl=gb,en

I haven't got them installed at the moment, partly due to there being no isolation between the walls in my house, and i don't want everybody knowing what I'm listening to.

Sol · Post by **Sol** » February 9th, 2009, 9:31

Bit ott for gaming though.

I have a nice pair of neats secondhand which i got on the cheap too, but they're hooked up to the hifi:

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 9th, 2009, 9:37

Cheap - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Labs-5 ... B000J4GCUO
They sound good enough for PC speakers. The addition of a sub makes a huge difference, even thought it's turned right down.

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » February 9th, 2009, 10:40

I post this on behalf of Chickenz as he is away for a while.

This is his sound set-up which he bought from myself.

2x Yamaha DSP 5.1 Digital Amps. 1 for the front speakers & 1 for the srurround, centre and sub.

Fronts - 2 Mission (can't remember the flava) & 2 x Yamaha
Centre - Yamaha
Surround - Not sure as he's recently upgraded
Sub - Yamaha

All Fibre optic connected to PS3 and PC with IXOS Gold plated O2 free cabling.

Post by **fabyak** » February 9th, 2009, 10:43

I see no speakers, only norks

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » February 9th, 2009, 10:52

I like your Febreeze

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 9th, 2009, 12:14

I like your flatscreen jism target.

Post by **ProfHawking** » February 9th, 2009, 13:12

I like your fridge health and safety requirement warnings

also, im sure we covered this somewhere, caus i already had a pic uploaded of my speakers:

Pretty decent, but bass is overpowering and mid range is lacking. Good for games tho

Lee · Post by **Lee** » February 9th, 2009, 18:22

I have these plugged into an X-Fi Xtreme Music:

They're studio quality so sound very good, although they do make the flaws in low bit rate stuff stand out.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » February 9th, 2009, 21:08

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » February 9th, 2009, 21:11

I can't say anything bad about the 230, they're decent enough but i recommend trying different placements,
since they seem to work better when there's a few feet between you and the boxes.

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 9th, 2009, 21:21

I've got some 530's (These speakers in 5.1 flavour). Bought them super cheap as the 540's had just come out. I got my 5.1's from ebuyer for the same price as these 2.1's.

The bass is a bit silly on cheap sound cards, it just drowns everything else out because the treble is a bit weak. When I moved from my free sound card to an xfi it made quite a difference. Given the speaker size they offer plenty of noise before distorting.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » February 9th, 2009, 22:25

Post by **ProfHawking** » February 10th, 2009, 11:21

amblin wrote: I'd also spotted these a while ago and thought they looked rather snazzy.

We have those Logitech Z-4s on our telly. They are pretty good, but massively lacking mid-range. Plenty of bass rumble but that's not always everything. Still, good value for money i think if you arent too fussy.