RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Headphone/Speaker switcher

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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.

My brother's been happy with his $20 set.  The speakers look like those
plastic "L" shaped picture stands wal-mart sells, and the subwolfer is a box
with a hole in the bottom (if you turn it upside down, it looks very much
like the toilets we had at summer camp).  I forgot the brand name, but it
was on clearance at Staples for $10 a few months ago.  No headphone jack
though.

Personally, I spent my $20 on cables and adapters, and ran my computer sound
through the Aux/CD jack on my stereo.  I now have full sized speakers, plus
my original PC speakers (good sound, no headphone jack).  On the other hand,
my sound card is apparently pretty decent.  The PC speakers aren't powered,
so they work as well as headphones.  My old PC (166mhz) had two sound outs,
one was for powered devices, the other for non.  With that one, I didn't
need the splitter, just ran PC speakers through the red plug, and my stereo
through the black.
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