Great Stereo Speakers

I will spend up to or over $100 for speakers. I heard this ski boat today and it had amazing speakers. I want really good ones. How much do you think the boats speakers cost? Also I need a really good CD player. Will a crappy player make great speakers sound bad? I also want a pretty good woofer in them

here is a search for a marine amplifier and mb quart makes good speakers, as far as a deck most major brands like sony, Pioneer or alpine would be good just spend over 120.00.
a marine amp would not be necessary if you could mount it in a dry location, and all speakers or woofer should be marine or not paper cone.



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2009-07-20 20:09:32 by snapshotphoto

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I am wanting to play music through my stereo speakers from my computer. The back of my stereo has the red and white plug-ins. I went to Radio Shack and the guy said something about a laptop not being amplified. I just want to know if it is possible to still receive good quality if I were to buy the cords or would it be a waste of time. Is it possible at all or should I just buy better computer speakers.

It depends on whether your stereo has an amplifier already...(unless its just a tuner it should) Does it have the ability to change modes such as CD, tape, Phono, Aux?

If there is just get an adapter that goes from a mini plug (laptop headphones jack) to the red and white (left and right channel) plugs....make sure you plug it into the "input" on your stereo and most likely change the setting to Aux. You will have to adjust the sound on the stereo and laptop to make it sound good but it should work just fine.

Good luck.

2006-12-14 13:01:42 by kinagrl02

Price: $19.99

Easy connections: Works with PC, Mac and iPod/MP3 players
Integrated cable management system: Your desk stays tidy with cords neatly stowed in the back of the speakers
Convenient controls: Power and volume are at your fingertips
Compact USB powered speakers: Simply plug them into your laptop or netbook for great sound no wall outlet required
3.5 mm input: Connect your portable music player or any audio source that uses a standard 3.5 mm plug

I have some great speakers (Bose) that don't have a stereo, but I am thinking they might be good as extra monitors in my recording studio. The "out" from the PA is a 1/4" and the connections to the speakers are loose +/-, so I will have to splice the cable. Is there a reason why this won't work? Is there something I am failing to consider??

It depends on the speakers. Some Bose speakers have incredibly low impedances (one of the reasons why they tend to sound the way they do, at least one of them) and hooking it up to a normal amplifier has a very high chance of blowing them.

Others, no problem at all.

I would look at the speakers and try to find the input impedance, it should be a number with an ohm symbol (a horshoe thingy) next to it. I think ideally it should be 8 or higher, but that will also depend on your PA... how many watts is your PA rated for, how are you hooking them up, and what kind of power does the PA deliver at the total impedance rating you're loading it down with?

For instance, a PA might be able to deliver 500 watts at 4 ohms but only 150 watts at 16 ohms (per channel, let's say). If you already have an 8 ohm speaker on each channel then you're getting somewhere around 300 watts to each. If you add the Bose speakers in series, and they're 8 ohms also, then you will be delivering only 150 watts to each side, which can result in a lower volume overall. Hook them up in parallel, and you're pushing 500 watts, and if your speakers aren't rated for that kind of power, then you risk blowing your speakers.

This is all incredibly speculative, since I don't know your setup, but the core concept remains the same, no matter what the watt rating or impedances values are for you.

The only thing that really ends up mattering in the end, as long as you do end up getting a good volume in the end and everything matches up safely, is that you have a decent balance of lows and highs. This is important for mixing and monitoring, you ideally want a relatively flat frequency response so that you hear what's actually going on with the recording or mixing.

The danger is that if you use home speakers and not studio monitors you won't mix properly. Home speakers are EQ'd to give more bass and more treble, because that's what we like when we listen to music. If you mix to that sound, then your end product will actually have *less* bass and *less* treble, so when you play it on a normal system it will sound weak and drab.

Now, I'm not saying you must go out and plunk down a fat wad of cash for massively expensive studio monitors, but I am saying to be careful! Listen to your favorite artists and albums over your speakers until you learn what to expect from them, and shoot for that sound. If I know that the band I want to sound like (Deftones, say) has a lot of bass (somewhat boomy in my car with the White Pony album) then I know that when I mix I want to make sure that my songs have approximately the same apparent sound as those songs (so I would want to make my bass sound more or less like theirs) so that at least I get a ballpark approximation of a good mix.

Hope that helped!


Saul

2008-11-20 04:39:47 by johnny4nuthin

Price: $14.99

Easy connections: Works with PC, Mac and iPod/MP3 players
3.5 mm input: Connect your MP3 player or any audio source that uses a standard 3.5 mm plug
Compact design: The perfect size for tight workspaces and easy to move from room to room
USB powered stereo speakers: Simply plug them into your laptop or netbook for great sound?no wall outlet required
Integrated cable management system: Your desk stays tidy with cords neatly stowed in the back of the speakers

I have a great stereo system but putting the speakers where they should go is always a hassle. Is there a way to turn them into wireless speakers?

Yes, Best Buy sell a kit for a pair of speakers for about $200 (Can$) and about $100 in the US (and I'm sure there are other options). They are intended for rear speakers (since those are the usual problem). Note that sound quality may suffer slightly, and you will need a place to plug in the power supply for each speaker ... so you are not completely wirelss. Personally, I don't recommend this for main speakers.

2008-12-08 05:14:22 by talanglois

I have a great pair of Bose stereo bookshelf speakers that I am not using right now, and I need better computer speakers. Any idea on how to use the Bose speakers on my computer?
I can't do that, the only connection on the Bose speakers is "speaker wire", and I can't plug that right into my computer.

If you mean the red and black wires.. then you cannot do it.

There is no simple adaptor.

And such speakers require some power, more than can be easily supplied by the audio out jack, which is suitable for earphones and small speakers only (very low volume). Or speakers with their own power source (which your Bose speakers are not).

I remember that creative used to sell a amplifier that plugged into the PC and you could connect Bose speakers to that. But it has probably gone out of style as high quality PC speakers have gotten really cheap.

2007-05-12 07:43:13 by Craig