classicalnut Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-EJ915 Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Do you want it to be 1 system, or a combination of parts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicalnut Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 It can be either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 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-2000IVRhttp://www.usa.denon.com/catalog/products.asp?l=1&c=9Infinity Beta20http://www.infinitysystems.com/homeaudio/p...?prod=BETA20BKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-EJ915 Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sony_man Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 what about some klipsch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sony_man Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 (edited) hey im a basshead! what can ya' do? i like to rock the house.edit: p.s. aeriyn is there a website and list of prices for the tripath amp, it sounds pretty NEAT. Edited February 14, 2005 by sony_man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 hey im a basshead! what can ya' do? i like to rock the house.←Ain't nothin' wrong with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 The SI Tripath is only a two-channel amp, unfortunately. It has only outputs for left and right channel. No sub output.But it's very inexpensive. Buy.com carries them, I believe. Froogle it, you'll find something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sony_man Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 okay i dont seem to understand much about amps, but where does it connect? like i know regular phone amps go after the player then headphones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sony_man Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 well maybe i migh leave the amp lol . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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