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24. July 2007 @ 07:23 |
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Yeah, I see what your saying. I've listened to alot of PC speaker setups and they do sound really good, especially for the price compared to home theater speaker systems. I already have a pair of Polk Monitor speakers and a sub, I should probably just get another set like the for the rear speakers, a center channel from Polk, use my current receiver, and be done with it. I could save alot more money that way. I just thought with 1080p and 7.1 being supported on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD I could take advantage of it if I had more speakers and a new receiver. My room might not be big enough for 7.1 anyway.
Do I need to just go to a site like tinypics.com and upload the picture, and then copy the adress it gives me into my post?
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24. July 2007 @ 07:36 |
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Coppy the address but put [ i m g ] before it and [ / i m g ] after it, but without the spaces between the letters.
My room's not even big enough for 5.1 at home, I have to have all 5 speakers at the front, two of them with no sound route because my monitor's in the way.
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24. July 2007 @ 09:57 |
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24. July 2007 @ 09:59 |
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Lovin' the checkerboard floor!
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24. July 2007 @ 10:00 |
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Thanks, I had it right and then screwed it up again, oh well I guess a link works too.
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24. July 2007 @ 10:01 |
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Lol, change it back! :D
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24. July 2007 @ 10:03 |
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LAPTOP: Lenovo SL 410
TABLET: Acer Iconia Tab A501
PC: Asus P8P67pro, GTX550 Ti, 8GB (2x4GB 1600MHz), Intel Core I5 2300.
SCREENS: Benq V2420 24", Samsung LE26R86 26",ViewSonic VG1921wm 19", Acer X193HQ 19". |
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24. July 2007 @ 10:06 |
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24. July 2007 @ 22:34 |
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nice tv, i'm gonna get those kinds of my room. Wii Is so small i didn't notice it first time i saw it.
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24. July 2007 @ 23:33 |
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I have that same sub an receiver...
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25. July 2007 @ 00:11 |
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Bah, all these clean and tidy setups...
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25. July 2007 @ 04:42 |
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Mine wasn't exactly clean, I just moved all the stuff in the way that looked bad to the back of the room so where I took the pictures would look better.
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I have that same sub an receiver...
Do you like the sub, I don't like mine, it distorts at medium levels even on small explosions. I think I got a good deal on the receiver though, paid $300 for the whole system and the receiver actually isn't that bad for the price.
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25. July 2007 @ 04:46 |
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Well, I can recommend the Z-5500s I use, as long as you have good electrics in your house. Every time a switch is turned on in the house they will make a slight 'pop' sound, so not good if you're in a big building. They weren't great at university, but they're brilliant at home.
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25. July 2007 @ 07:05 |
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Thats weird, my friend has those speakers and his don't do that. But I will say that they do sound really good and are really nice.
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25. July 2007 @ 07:09 |
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It all depends what sort of environment you're in. The newest sets aren't supposed to have the problem at all, but since mine were second hand, they may be the first generation, but as I say at home it very rarely happens, it's just in places where the wiring's not so good that it notices. I love all the aspects of the system, from the looks, the absurd subwoofer size (for a PC anyway), the Digital decoder with Optical and Coax support, and the volume overboost function...
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25. July 2007 @ 07:37 |
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If I was going to get a HTB system now, I think I would just get one of those instead. However usually if I have the money I try to get seperate components, it's more expensive, but it usually sounds better.
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25. July 2007 @ 07:56 |
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Perhaps. As somebody whose room is probably in double figures square feet, I don't dabble with overly expensive surround sound gear. I kind of wish there was something in between the X-530 and the Z-5500s, as to be honest, volume levels above 24/40 start causing things to fall off shelves. Don't forget you can overboost signals too!
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25. July 2007 @ 08:26 |
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Yeah, I've got a little bit of space to cover so computer speakers sound fine when I'm at my desk but if you walk over to the other side of my room and listen it's not near as good. I'm not obsessed with audio like some people are but I like it to atleast match the rest of my equipment as far as quality goes. I had a system a while back that I liked quite a bit, it was all separate components, but it was 2 sets of Sony bookshelf speakers for $100 per pair, the center channel to match for $100, and a Sony sub I already had. It sounded good for anything even at really high volumes, however I ended up busting every speaker in the set. I guess you get what you pay for.
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25. July 2007 @ 08:31 |
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Lol well perhaps, the maximum volume output for these is supposed to be 120dB at 1m, the threshold of pain. Since I sit significantly less than 1m from all of the speakers, I keep the volume well below max!
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25. July 2007 @ 09:52 |
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Yeah, I was at my friends house and he has his speakers setup in a medium sized bedroom, and we almost couldn't stand to stay in the room they were so loud. I don't know how loud he had them but stuff started falling off of his desk. The only PC speakers I would compare to those are some sets by Klipch.
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26. July 2007 @ 15:32 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Tybro, you broke the golden rule! Not to have bigger speakers than your TV!
I did'nt think that there was a TV-Sterio Ratio rule =P
I just like not hearing anything other than the game when I'm playing
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26. July 2007 @ 16:22 |
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I'd say those will do it. How many watts are they, and how big are the woofers anyway?
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26. July 2007 @ 23:49 |
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Even when I moved to a 24" monitor, I had a 100W hifi and a cheap 30W set of speakers. It took the move to 30" to make me move up.
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27. July 2007 @ 07:02 |
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I think you've got us all beat on computer accessories. I would like to see someone with a larger monitor (I guess that would mean TV) set up on their computer desk and used like a full time monitor. Also I would like to see some high end computer surround sound systems. Would you say you've got the largest monitor at AD?
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27. July 2007 @ 07:09 |
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hehe, well perhaps the largest monitor (I should hope so, since no larger monitor exists) although the average LCD TV has me beat on size. I deliberately didn't go for one as a monitor though due to the resolution.
Your average LCD TV is 1366x768, and any size plasma is 1024x768. High end DLPs and LCDs are 1920x1080, which is good, but consider that a 46" LCD costing £2400 gives you 1920x1080 whereas a three-figure sum and only 30" bags you 2560x1600, a 97.5% increase in pixel count.
Games look good on big TVs, but you have to sit far away. The great thing about the 30" is the compromise (Never thought I'd use that word about an £800 monitor!), you can sit right in front of it, and use it's size and pixel count to multitask better than you can with three 17 or 19" monitors, and then when you get bored of work, open up a game. You can sit with it right in front of you and the pixels are invisible. At over 10,000 pixels per square inch, you can only just see them with your nose to the screen.
This paragraph may just put off somebody wanting to use a giant TV as a monitor.
I'm not a gloater, my PC is easily beat by a lot of rigs around here (hence why I die a little inside when I see an 8800GTX hooked up to a 17" monitor) but to be quite honest, what I have is over the top for my uses just a bit, and sees me with no need to change until a positive resolution in technology arrives.
Three people at the LAN party I go to have this monitor, I was the second. There must also be nearly half a dozen 24" Dells as well. Whoever thought Dell would be so prevalent at a LAN party?
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