Great sound card, Great Speaker

[Brume]

I'm actually in afghanistan, one of my top project when i come back beside new car and new home theater is a brand new computer. After a couples days of checking computer web side i have found the perfect match for me.. So there is the configuration im looking for:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6Ghz
Asus 8800 GTS 320mgs
Corsair 2Gbts 800mhz DDR2

I will probly buy a Audigy X-FI, but if you gonna buy a great sound card you need the speaker to back it up. Any advise on it ?? Im not a big fan of the 7.1 i prefer good Stereo speaker with sub that give incredible good quality sound.. any advise??

 

[hannibal]

You want stereo?

Try these:
http://www.genelec-ht.com/products/active-2-way/6020a/
http://www.genelec-ht.com/5050a/

Wanna have surround:
http://www.genelecusa.com/ht/news/30/136/

So you can start with sub and two speakers and expand with, if you want to have surround.

 

[hakuryuu]

high quality computer friendly speakers. I have the 4326p and they are just outstanding.

http://www.jblpro.com/products/recording&broadcast/LSR4300/lsr4326P.html
http://www.jblpro.com/products/recording&broadcast/LSR4300/lsr4328P.html

I have an X-FI and its ok. I honestly think it is performing better under vista than it was under XP. Of course it took a bit of tweaking to do so. Am curious about the Asus Xonar d2x but I can't find any information about it other than the CeBit announcement.

 

[astrallite]

What is your budget? Because maybe you've noticed the last guy just suggested you to get $1,400 speakers. Hah--although he was on the right track.

You need a bookshelf with at least at 5"--preferably 6+" midrange drive. A 6-6.5" driver is just about good enough to cross over with a subwoofer at around 80hz. Any smaller and you have the subwoofer playing frequencies too high for its own good--what hi-fi guys always say--if you can hear the subwoofer in your system, there's something wrong. It should blend in seamlessly to the point where you don't even notice there is a bass unit separate to your speakers.

So list your budget please--that will allow us to actually give some suggestions...Otherwise I'd recommend you a bookshelf setup of either Ascend Serria-1s at $1k/pair with a $1k Hsu subwoofer