I'm looking for speakers small enough to fit under a monitor, have decent sound, but don't need wifi/bluethooth like soundbars. Just optical or aux. Without a receiver. Anyone got this to work?
Bookshelf are too large and always end up hinding behind the monitors.
I dont have speakers when I am on my computer I employ a couple of jungle niggers to play the bongo's depending on what they see on the screen and how they feel about it. Sometimes I employ native american indians to stand in the garden and send me smoke signals
Grayson Butler
Black speakers are ok, if you insist, but i prefer white
Dominic Parker
PC > Topping D10 DAC > NAD C368 AMP > Monitor Audio Silver 100 speakers.
Brandon Jenkins
Oh and an SVS SB2000 Sub.
Lucas Myers
based boomer
Christopher Robinson
I prefer my speakers to be on my desk
Jason Robinson
Never heard of Topping D10. Very interesting. Ty
Oliver Evans
I use pic related and have for many years, of course some poorfag will now tell me his chinkshit that cost a tenth is better but yeah thats normal for the chan
I use an old Panasonic stereo, I hacked off the cassette deck, CD player, and kept the amp, EQ, vol control unit and use the original drivers that came with it and hacked in a bluetooth module and aux in. Sounds really good desu desu.
Dont know the model number but it's one of those with lcd and big volume knobs.
Yeah I am currently running bose desktop speakers, but was hoping for more umpf with a lower profile (they can sit below the monitor rather than on the side - don't really care about at ear level)
Andrew Williams
If you want something very small so it fits under your monitors you probably won't get anything amazing sounding. You can at the very least expect to miss all or most of the low-end (bass needs to move a lot of air and as such it needs a physically large speaker) and depending on exactly how small you want you may not even get a 2-way speaker with a tweeter, just some shit with a single driver which won't sound very pleasant. If you want something so your computer can beep at you and you can understand speech in videos, such speakers will be fine for sure.
Honestly if you want good sound out of speakers you will need to make some room for them. If you want good sound without the room, go for headphones. If you just want something to make noise, any shitty speaker is fine.
My audio setup is a good few years old now, though I'm still perfectly happy with it. The speakers are placed on stands to the sides of my desk. PC > V-DAC II > O2 headphone amp > NAD C 326BEE > 2x Monitor Audio Bronze BX2 + BK Electronics Gemini II sub.
Daniel Anderson
Any amp for under a fucking grand I'm not made of cash you old fuck
Brayden Miller
I have chinkshit edifiers I got on prime day for 99 bucks last year. Sound great hooked up to my internal DAC. They have blue tooth, but turns off with a press of a button. They’re big bookshelf speakers, though. I don’t recall what model, but they have a brown finish.
Hunter Robinson
Nice setup. It appears you are right. Thx all for the suggestions
I have a pair of Sterling Audio MX3s. They fit under my monitor when laid on their sides, and I'm really happy with the sound for what they cost. ($80 with a coupon at Guitar Center.) They're powered so you can run them off a normal sound card with a minijack, but I've got mine hooked up to my audio interface's line out with RCAs and I'm not sure if they'd sound worse without that.
I use a chinkshit class d amp with some old polk bookshelf speakers and a psw-10 polk sub. Decently fine for nearfield listening
Sebastian Miller
Are Edifier 1280DB's any good bros?
Brandon Cook
>Are Edifier 1280DB' >Passive speaker+one powered speaker with only RCA No
If it doesn't have XLR or TSR, get proper passive speakers through a receiver or whatever amp* that fits your limited needs *=(since that's what amps are; limited).
Brayden Harris
(OP) discarded boomer gear. bought on gumtree from men in the their early 50s, both of which were ordered by the wife to get rid of the old stuff.
micca covo-s are well-priced, decent sounding concentric speakers
Nolan Jackson
Good setup, probably sounds way better than PC speaker setups costing hundreds. I'd be careful about covering the vents on top of the amp though, they put them there for a reason.
Grayson Adams
the only heat comes from the transformer on the left (which is still fairly open), so not too worried. I worked out that the total brand-new comes to about £700 so for 1/10th of that i'm very happy.
Camden James
>I'm looking for speakers small enough to fit under a monitor, have decent sound, but don't need wifi/bluethooth like soundbars. Just optical or aux. Without a receiver.
Look into Vanatoo Transparent Zero. Small size, decent sound, lots of I/O, but not cheap.
These. The headphone jack is the best driver I've had, forget buying a separate DAC
Really great, but I wish there was a woofer I could buy separately. I only have the 2 and they seem to only sell the woofer with the sets, not by itself.
i've had a pair of these for at least 10 years now currently fit behind my 32" monitor (and off to the sides a bit) i mainly listen through a usb dac to iems tho, but these little speakers get plenty loud
I cbf posting my setup but it’s better then yours and because I actually care about music I spent more effort on it
Cooper Anderson
yamaha hs8 into dac. speakers are shit quality, left one wont stop screetchign, even when its the only thing plugged in. is it a group loo0 issue? who knows, but im not cutting the ground to find out
David Fisher
My amp's vents have been covered for better part of two decades now. Hasn't caught fire yet.
Carter James
I'm using a pair a Micca MB42 speakers with a Polk 10" sub hooked up to old Panasonic receiver. It sounds pretty good. For speakers small and good sounding are pretty mutually exclusive.
Genelec 6010a + 5040a combo through a dac. The sound is good enough that it's made headphones almost obsolete for me 90% of the time. The only annoyance is that each of the speakers needs a separate power socket for themselves.
Just got the Audioengine HD3 powered speakers, they are fairly expensive considering their size, but large bookshelf speakers are just unnecessary for a desktop only setup. They have a separate headphone amp too so that makes them a good solution for those who want a clean setup with less wires/devices for their audio.
what i don't like about these logitech offerings is not only that the products are cheaply made and provide low quality audio, its also that they use deceptive advertising that is so evidently misleading that they don't even care about insulting the intelligence of the potential buyer
what the buyer gets is a frankenstein set up of two low power tweeters with a useful wattage of 20 watts, and a single midrange woofer powered by "mystery amp" and a circuit that synthesizes lower octaves with high distortion
their "specs" in their advertising don't even describe the size of the drivers, but instead give the buyer the physical dimensions of the entire housing
the tweeter driver is 2.5 inches diameter, and made from garbage, and the "subwoofer" is a 7 inch standard low-midrange woofer, and also made from garbage
one review site describes the electronics as class D... well, enjoy your distortion at moderate volume; the sound output looks like an amateur high school experiment
hard to believe there are people on /g who are so retarded about audio technology; for the same $90 to $150 to buy this piece of shit, a tech aware person could put together a decent system
Yep. mine is powering some no name house brand speakers that turned out great for human speech, and fine for everything else, the value to performance is just stupid, like would have to spend at least 10x more for something that might be better.
Angel Garcia
>at least 10x more that's not true but go ahead believing whatever you like in your ignorance
Brayden Gonzalez
Kinda amazing that you know how much I spend on my trash setup, or are you saying you want to donate some free speakers?
Easton Harris
"Those power ratings are way off and at 10% distortion. Having said that the lepai puts out something like 2-5 actual watts"
May as well just route the audio into a transistor radio, dumbass.
Elijah Jenkins
kinda amazing you promote buying garbage
Jose Morgan
If bookshelf speakers are too large, your best bet is probably gonna be a soundbar with a subwoofer.
I bought the creative sound pebbles for like 20 bucks recently for my smol laptop desk. It sounds good enough for 20 bucks.
Lucas Parker
>If it doesn't have XLR or TSR,
Both of these are fucking memes if your speaker wire is literally only 3 to 6 feet long you faggot. Stop shilling muh balanced inputs for near field use.
Leo Bennett
I am using the cheapest shitty pajeet speakers I could find because A) I live in a flat where although the neighbors are nice people I am not a cunt and won't fuck them over by making them listen to my music. B) I am a cheap shit C) Acoustics here are absolutely fucking horrible D) I don't have much space and E) these literally costed me 20 bucks and do the trick for most of my use so all in all, although I want to upgrade, for now I'm fine with the shit I got.
good sensible set up of someone who is married and has 1.3 children
Thomas Martin
He wants to crack his neck
Isaiah Thompson
No need to strain the neck. Not that I even use the chair most of the time, if I watch content on the TV, I use the king sized bed behind the chair, it's comfy enough.
>5.1 / 2 active subwoofers That's called 5.2, dipshit.
Oliver Taylor
thanks for being a pedantic creep, dipshit
James Butler
You're welcome, shithead.
Mason Johnson
>5.2 No, that's called buzzword.
Jackson Reyes
Those go for 50 to 100 on eBay. Any idea why?
Zachary Watson
this as long as you have one LFE channel its 5.1, no matter how many woofers you have
Henry Sanders
No shit. But call it whatever you want, can't stop people from being retarded, free world.
Adam Hernandez
>What is everyone's PC sound set up?
SMSL SA-36 amp and Micca Covo-S speakers. Under 100$ with a very small footprint (I have very little desk space). Sounds very nice too, much better than any PC speaker setup in that price range and size.
Michael Cook
boomers, haha
Cameron Martin
PC > DAC > NAD C326BEE > pair of Dali Spektor 2 Amp sits on a shelf above the monitor. No sub, don't really have the need at the moment.
Juan Roberts
I know you said no receiver, but micca covo-s are the best for the size. Add a tiny smsl amp and you're golden.
Camden Powell
NAD C316 v2. Shit is bulletproof and should set you back about $300ish or less.
Angel Cooper
How do you get proper speaker placement when you are only sitting 3 feet away from a wall?
Isaiah Ramirez
A cheap chinese TPA3116 mini amp(bluetooth/3.5mm) powering my 2 60 watt 6 ohm bookshelf speakers.
Fire them up at the ceiling Then the sounds will bounce/flow back down in a balanced way :^)
Daniel Richardson
The distortions and powers are dependent on the specs of the system. If you got a shitty power supply, it will distort at 3-5watt. If you got a good power supply, it will keep the audio clean even at 40-50watts. I am driving my mini amp with 18v with 6 amp and there's no audible distortion.
Jose Butler
To all of you using bookshelf spears and no subwoofer
what do you actually listen to where you don't need significant bass? Just voices/radio/talking/vidya/tv/anime? No music? If music too, what? I need a bit of bass, a low rumble I can feel, for music. Not a huge amount, and not really loud or anything. But I do need a little bit. Music just doesn't feel complete without it. It's like listening to music in 2d vs 3d.
Noah Miller
I used those for about a week. Ended up using them as loudspeakers, but also ended up fucking their capacitors. Every time there was bass, the whole system volume would drop hard, even when only at 70% volume. Ended up switching to an early 2000s altec lansing 2.1 system that fucking killed it at higher volumes than the Bose They're fine for light soho use but otherwise kinda terrible
David Jackson
PC > Soekris dac1421 > Yamaha HS7
Gavin Clark
Anime/video/music/etc.
Dedicated sub is nice for better experience for sure, but its not necessary since many bookshelf(>50watt), if enough amp is put into it, there will be enough bass.
Joshua Anderson
I only have headphones since I live in an apartment.
why do you assume bookshelf speakers don't produce bass? Most regular 6" bookshelf speakers play down to -3dB at 40ish Hz which covers everything on a 4 string bass guitar and bigger ones go even lower, mine are -3dB at 26Hz. There's nothing worthwhile a sub can add to that in a near field scenario, except for room acoustic purposes and dedicated lfe channel
Henry Stewart
Can someone give me a quick rundown on crossover? Let's say I want to use two speakers with identical ohm ratings and identical drivers, only the housing is different to target different frequency ranges. I want to split two channels into four speakers. What do I need in terms of wattage? Does each channel need double the rated wattage, or just the same wattage to drive four speakers instead of two at the same volume? Is source->amp->crossover->speakers the correct method, or should I look for something with four channels and try to get the amp to do crossover for me?
Caleb Cruz
what bookshelf speakers do you use
Oliver Turner
I've got three 24" monitors on a triple stand and there's just enough room for a pair of Edifier 1280s underneath. Works pretty well.
Absolutely, if you want to avoid fucking with amps.
Also, general advice, 99% of 2.1s suck ass. A pair of bookshelves with a bass port have more bass than you'd expect.
Matthew Ward
How's the sound?
Carter Roberts
neumann kh 420 yeah ok they can crush some bookshelves but I had them on ikea kallax for a while