High-end 2.1s

[1ctabor]

Originally posted by Gluegun
If he wants the best sounding PC music system for $200, than they are it.

In your opinion maybe but what makes your opinion any more credible then mine when it comes to sound quality? I would have to say on their own they are one of the worst sounding systems I've had. There's two sides to every story and here you are getting it. One person that thinks they are great and another that thinks they suck. You also don't like the way klipsch sound yet I love the way they sound so whats that say. I guess our tastes are opposite. One being better than the other I don't think, but different, yes. I'm just saying in my experiences with music and music systems which i've had several, alot more people seem to prefer the sound that I prefer than don't prefer it.

[1ctabor]

One thing I want to make clear before I get so and so again(don't even remember who it was) crying at me cause i'm trashing on his speakers(swans). When someone wants advice on a speaker system they deserve to hear both sides. If I was looking to get some speakers i'd definately want to hear the negatives. Some people can't handle when they see someone putting out the downside of their speakers. I'm not trying to start fights i'm trying to get all the info out there. What if this guy had my taste in music and got on here to ask for great sound speakers.....Then, gluegun types out there the diva swan m200's are the absolute best pc music speaker system.....The guy takes what he said and orders them.....gets them and is completely dissatisfied with them.....now wondering why in the hell this guy claims they were the best. Would I want anymore advice from a forum after something like that? Not really. I talked with gluegun time and time again before ordering the swans and was very skeptical about it. Finally I broke down and ordered them. Then the one thing I was afraid of happened. I turned them on and thought...THATS IT....I tried everything I could to make them sound great, went to some pretty far extremes as to get a pre-amp and a hsu vtf2 sub. I will say it sounded damn good after that but still lacked in an area too high for the sub to play. Which would be the area the swans couldn't go low enough to play. So, I sent the swans and the preamp back and kept the sub. With the money I got back from the pre amp and swans I bought the klipsch promedia 5.1's. Now, I have them paired up with the hsu vtf2 sub and couldn't be happier with the sound. Where the swans couldn't go the promedia 5.1's can. They go a hell of alot louder and sound every bit as good in the mid to high end. IN MY OPINION. So, I say to everyone, be sure to read the positive and negative replies to all your questions because you may have my ears or you may have glueguns.

[Gluegun]

*shrugs* it was a bad component match, but it was what av123 offered.

An Adire Rava would probably do better... with the low pass and high pass filter... but you would have to use the windows volume control.

Anyway, when I speak of best as "fact", I mean "most accurate for music" (which they are). When I speak of it by opinion, well, then it's my opinion. In this case, both apply. Again, read the reviews...

[1ctabor]

Originally posted by Gluegun
*shrugs* it was a bad component match, but it was what av123 offered.

An Adire Rava would probably do better... with the low pass and high pass filter... but you would have to use the windows volume control.

Anyway, when I speak of best as "fact", I mean "most accurate for music" (which they are). When I speak of it by opinion, well, then it's my opinion. In this case, both apply. Again, read the reviews...

What I don't get is how can they be so good if they are missing such a big area of frequency at the lower end. And as for accurate, accurate to what? ...are you saying they reproduce the sound more closely to what it was supposed to be? If so, you would be completely wrong. How can you are the makers or reviewers or anyone for that matter claim one is closer to the original sound than the next. How do they know how it was recorded to sound? They don't and thats where I don't agree at all with audiophiles. Take klipsch for example. Most audiophiles say they are too "harsh" (which i think is rediculous). Most that don't claim to be audiophiles love them. Who's to say the actual song wasn't meant to have that sound to it. Maybe they are the speakers that are accurate and the others aren't. Its a never ending arguement that you, I, nor anyone else has the answer except for the recording studio themselves. All speaker manufacturers color there sound to an extent. So who's coloring the right direction?
And as for the reviews, the few you give are still opinions and also from the whole audiophile group, which is a sound I don't and most others I know don't prefer. Its a sound someone should definately have a listen to for themselves before they decide to buy them.