Your Speaker Setup

What speaker setup do you have?

  • 2/2.1

    Votes: 53 34.4%

  • 4/4.1

    Votes: 10 6.5%

  • 5.1

    Votes: 60 39.0%

  • 6.1

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • 7.1

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Headphones

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 8 5.2%
  • Total voters
    154
A good quality stereo is more than enough. I guess the helicopter is present in almost all movies just to feel the surround effect. The surround sound could have a justification only if the screen also surrounds you.
 
Yeah... when I fire up my 5.1's I dont notice nor care for the added channels much as either I'm listening to music about 15 feet away (or in a different room) or I'm playing a game and moving around way to fast to benifit from surround sound (or hell, have the sound off so i can either listen to music or concentrate on the game or something)
 
I cant watch DVD movies without surround sound, I became hooked when I saw the movie "What Lies Beneath" on a surround sound sytem and you could hear these water droplets in the bath tub, it was so realistic the sound.
On my computer I have two crappy polk audio speakers which doesnt matter much since my computer is just about always on mute.
 
Let's clarify something. I have 6 speakers. :P not all of them work. when i tried to install my mixer and all that crap windows didn't seem to find my soundblaster Live!
So yeah, just 2 work at the moment.
It said something about my system not being able to find my soundblaster card. anyone have any ideas? I've looked everywhere but can't find an answer. :)
 
I found an easy way to test the quality of an audio system without any measuring instrument: just put on some harpsichord music.
The harpsichord has a large spectra of harmonics, and when some of them are missing or atenuated then it sounds quite awful (like driving nails in your ears :eek: ).
But when both the amplifier and the speaker have a (very close to) linear frequency response then the harpsichord-experience is amazing (almost like in live audition). :cool:
 
Hmmm... sounds like a harpsichord in the Beatles "For No One", but I can't think of another single song that even remotely sounds like it has a harpsichord in it. How uncultured...
 
I have 2 speakers with a subwoofer, sounds really good.

oh yeah, i have a pair of headphones too!

next speaker system: 7.1 surround
 
I have 5.1 setup right now, but when I still lived at home, I had my comp. hooked up to a 1000w amp, running a 15" sub and two tens that set outside by the pool :cool: but when I was indoors, I just swapped it out with some realy bad polks
 
i have just invested in a philips sensurround theatre system ... no more arido tweeting and breaking the music waves... its good - and for $100/-, a steal!

now i can even hear the nasal tones of french singers, the crystal clear harp and gregorian chant without having to kill myself! I wanted an Onkyo, but.... I'd have to specially import it and since I'm dreaming for a lappy... that would have to wait :)
 
I worked on a guys computer once... he had his computer running through a mixing desk into two huge amplifiers... hehe.
 
How about plugging the audio-out in this monster:

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That's correct. But a regular sound card's audio-out it's not exactly a pure sound. An ideal sound card would be built from tubes...
 
They do have Tube based ASUS boards (or so some of my audiophille friends have told me ... i havnt validated nor cared to)

:)
 
I saw that board (in pictures), but I don't think it could make a difference, since the sound source is digital. And for an audiophile analog rules. :cool:
A vynil record has much better sound than a CD, regardless of amplifiers. Only a DVD-Audio could come close to that sound...
 
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