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You'd best be served by using a nice stereo integrated amp and good speakers. The Pioneer Elite A35R is on my short list of amps to consider buying. The amp is relatively cheap and has gotten a lot of great reviews. The Speakers will be a lot harder to recommend because everyones ears are different. I like my Boston Acoustics speakers a lot though. I'd head into a stereo shop and look at Boston, Kef, Paradigm, and Atom as a few good brands.

Now if you're looking for something that's the equilvalent of PC speakers, then I'd say to look at Logitech. They offer a lot of bang for the buck.

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Looking to purchase a 2.1 powered speaker system.  Will be mainly used to play my minidisc.  I mainly listen to classical music.  Looking for something with power, has bass and treble controls and has great requency response.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Price range is pretty up in the air.  Thanks

Denon PMA-2000IVR

http://www.usa.denon.com/catalog/products.asp?l=1&c=9

Infinity Beta20

http://www.infinitysystems.com/homeaudio/p...?prod=BETA20BKS

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The JBL E30 bookshelfs are really good (I use them), and they're usually found for $150. I'd suggest picking them up, they have a good bass output in their own right and sound great with my 10" sealed sub.

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If you can live without the sub, I'd suggest trying for a used pair of Energy or Paradigm Atom bookshelf speakers (cost varies) and a Sonic Impact Tripath amplifier ($30).

The little SI Tripath amp... it sounds as if it should cost ten times that much. There are people using this thing to power AKG K1000 headphones ($800 US headphones!) and enjoying the results.

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If you can live without the sub, I'd suggest trying for a used pair of Energy or Paradigm Atom bookshelf speakers (cost varies) and a Sonic Impact Tripath amplifier ($30).

The little SI Tripath amp... it sounds as if it should cost ten times that much. There are people using this thing to power AKG K1000 headphones ($800 US headphones!) and enjoying the results.

Why would he need to lose the sub? Does the Sonic Impact amp not have a sub output? Most good amps will allow him to use a sub.

As for the Klipsch recommendation from sony_man. I don't think that Klipsch speakers would be a good option for classical music, at least not the best option. Klipsch is well known for making a bass heavy muddy sounding speaker. Klipsch stuff is great for rock or rap in my opinion, but lacks in definition for acoustic or classical music.

I forgot to mention my dream system when I posted earlier. I'd really like an Adcom/Kef combo in the future, but that'll be expensvie. biggrin.gif

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It has clips for speaker leads on the back. Personally, if I were to buy and use an SI Tripath amp, I'd take it out of that cheapo plastic case and put it in something metal with proper binding posts or banana plugs. Oh, I'd change the crappy volume pot for an ALPS RK27 while I was at it. laugh.gif

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