Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2007

Roland makes a few different kinds.  I use these on my Mac (warning:
annoying music):
<http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=746&ParentId=114>

Good enough semi-pro equipment precludes a subwoofer.  The fact is that
most cheap subwoofers (i.e., in your price range) only produce varying
amounts of distortion to the output.  Spend the money on better stereo
pairs instead.

If you have your own pre-amp, then I highly recommend these:
<http://www.norh.com/products/norh3/index.html>

I have a pair of an early revisions of these with a matched centre
channel in my AV room: <http://www.norh.com/products/norh4/index.html>

On Mar 8, 2:09 pm, jami...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet)
wrote:

Well, I ended up picking the Logitech X-230's <http://www.logitech.com/
index.cfm/products/details/NZ/EN,CRID=2173,CONTENTID=9066> and I've
had nothing but trouble.

First Supercheap Computers <http://www.supercheappc.biz/site/> tell me
they've got one in stock for $56.48 and I can pay and they will post
it off tomorrow. I do. They then say someone else grabbed the last
one. I'll have to wait till next week. But the next day I'm told
there's a problem with the next expected shipment and I'll need to
wait till mid-APRIL! Well so much for them! (Got my refund a week
later - this Wednesday just past as it happens - so that wasn't TOO
bad on their part).

I'm running out of time so I get fed up and waltz into the local Noel
Lemmings (consumer electronics and appliance chain store) and ask them
will they price match with another company - Compulink - out of
Auckland (not Supercheap - price was REALLY low cause it was a
parallel import). They agree and I get the speakers for NZD$80 (were
$119 which is oddly $10 more than Logitech themselves give ?!? ). I
take them home and set them up. The sound is GOD-AWFUL! :-( The bass
is out of control even with the subwoofer turned down as far as it
will go and iTunes' equaliser lowering the bass frequencies. Every
slightly bassy sound is a THUD. People with deep voices in spoken word
podcasts are DISTORTED by too much bass!!!

I cannot believe how bad these speakers are. Even the highs sound
flat. It's like Logitech only cared about bass at the expense of all
else. And it's not the subwoofer (which is turned down all the way
remember). It's the tweeters that are ruining the bass sounds! All
they do is THUD THUD THUD every bass note. I'm returning them tomorrow
for a full refund :-(

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Calvin and
Hobbes (Bill Watterson)

If it's available in New Zealand, look for the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1. US
pricing is about $150.