Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Headphone/Speaker switcher

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Mark Rages wrote:

> Here's a tale of warning. I bought some Labtech speakers from
> officedepot $20 for two egg shaped sattelite speakers and a 4"
> sub in a wooden box.

[snip]

> Also, these speakers sound really bad. I wasn't expecting hifi, but...
> yow. the satellite drivers are maybe 2". Because of this, it sounds like
> the crossover is in the 300 Hz region. Which happens to be where ears are 
> very sensitive to phase. The sub has a port, tuned for one-note "boom-boom"
> bass. Might be OK for feeling explosions in your favorite shoot-em-up,
> but just awful for music.  Fortunately the cap to an ordinary film canister
> fits the port perfectly, reducing the Q and bringing up low bass respone at
> the same time. I also stuffed some foam up there for good measure.

Despite lots of progress made in this area, your average $20 PC
soundsystem is unlikely to be a happy situation.  At the same Office
Depot, the $40 Cambridge Soundworks "PCWorks" system is not hifi
either, but has always struck me as a more reasonable choice.  At
home, I've got the speakers that are one up from that (Cambridge
Soundworks "Soundworks", now $70 online) which I use as the second
stereo when hooked up to a laptop playing CDs burned to mp3s.  
Again, not hifi, but pretty nice for a powered speaker set-up and
very convenient for this use.  This system also came with their
so-called "center section" (CD/radio/etc., so you could essentially
have a mini-system), but I really truly hate the CD player that they
use there.

Interestingly, they also sell $150 and $300 systems (so the line-up
goes: $40, $70, $150, $300).  I'm not sure why anybody would buy a
$300 powered speaker system, but there you go.
 
jking

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