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For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?

TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
Ive always like the altec lansing range:

http://ascent.co.nz/Brand.aspx?catID=1577&catType=1

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:09:02 +1300, (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

>For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>
>TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet



Go for Logitech good value for the $$

Andrew Lambert <> wrote in news:45EF7226.4010309
@stuff.stuff:

> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Jamie Kahn Genet
> Ive always like the altec lansing range:
>
> http://ascent.co.nz/Brand.aspx?catID=1577&catType=1

So great specs and close to $300.00

Maybe some Genius will do?
Do you need THX and extra inputs? a wireless remote?

--
Ciao, Dave

Andrew Lambert <> wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> > For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jamie Kahn Genet
> Ive always like the altec lansing range:
>
> http://ascent.co.nz/Brand.aspx?catID=1577&catType=1

Is the 121i <http://www.totallymac.com/nz/detail.lasso?product=121i&p=1>
any good?

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Mathew Good <> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:09:02 +1300, (Jamie Kahn
> Genet) wrote:
>
> >For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
> >
> >TIA,
> > Jamie Kahn Genet
>
>
>
> Go for Logitech good value for the $$

I'm told the Logitech X-230 2.1 Speaker System isn't too bad. Which of
the following stores would you buy from? Or another place?

<http://www.activecatalog.co.nz/prod/...ils.aspx?produ
ctid=2356&catid=1374&page=1>

<http://supercheappc.biz/site/product...6&products_id=
1846>

TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:11:53 +1300, (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

>Andrew Lambert <> wrote:
>
>> Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> > For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> > Jamie Kahn Genet
>> Ive always like the altec lansing range:
>>
>> http://ascent.co.nz/Brand.aspx?catID=1577&catType=1
>
>Is the 121i <http://www.totallymac.com/nz/detail.lasso?product=121i&p=1>
>any good?



You are Joking, you do not get any thing, that is good for that price at all.

I will State Again go for a Logitech system


http://www.pp.co.nz/ProductsA.php?pp_id=SPK00025


http://www.pp.co.nz/Speakers-21.php


>Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:11:54 +1300, (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:

>Mathew Good <> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:09:02 +1300, (Jamie Kahn
>> Genet) wrote:
>>
>> >For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>> >
>> >TIA,
>> > Jamie Kahn Genet
>>
>>
>>
>> Go for Logitech good value for the $$
>
>I'm told the Logitech X-230 2.1 Speaker System isn't too bad. Which of
>the following stores would you buy from? Or another place?
>
><http://www.activecatalog.co.nz/prod/...ils.aspx?produ
>ctid=2356&catid=1374&page=1>
>
><http://supercheappc.biz/site/product...6&products_id=
>1846>
>
>TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet



Go do Harvey Norman a Listen to them all.

On Mar 8, 2:09 pm, jami...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet)
wrote:
> For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

Well, I ended up picking the Logitech X-230's <http://www.logitech.com/
index.cfm/products/details/NZ/EN,CRID=2173,CONTENTID=9066> and I've
had nothing but trouble.

First Supercheap Computers <http://www.supercheappc.biz/site/> tell me
they've got one in stock for $56.48 and I can pay and they will post
it off tomorrow. I do. They then say someone else grabbed the last
one. I'll have to wait till next week. But the next day I'm told
there's a problem with the next expected shipment and I'll need to
wait till mid-APRIL! Well so much for them! (Got my refund a week
later - this Wednesday just past as it happens - so that wasn't TOO
bad on their part).

I'm running out of time so I get fed up and waltz into the local Noel
Lemmings (consumer electronics and appliance chain store) and ask them
will they price match with another company - Compulink - out of
Auckland (not Supercheap - price was REALLY low cause it was a
parallel import). They agree and I get the speakers for NZD$80 (were
$119 which is oddly $10 more than Logitech themselves give ?!? ). I
take them home and set them up. The sound is GOD-AWFUL! The bass
is out of control even with the subwoofer turned down as far as it
will go and iTunes' equaliser lowering the bass frequencies. Every
slightly bassy sound is a THUD. People with deep voices in spoken word
podcasts are DISTORTED by too much bass!!!

I cannot believe how bad these speakers are. Even the highs sound
flat. It's like Logitech only cared about bass at the expense of all
else. And it's not the subwoofer (which is turned down all the way
remember). It's the tweeters that are ruining the bass sounds! All
they do is THUD THUD THUD every bass note. I'm returning them tomorrow
for a full refund

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:34:36 -0700, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> On Mar 8, 2:09 pm, jami...@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
>> For music and games. What's a good buy under $100? Under $200?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Jamie Kahn Genet
>
> Well, I ended up picking the Logitech X-230's <http://www.logitech.com/
> index.cfm/products/details/NZ/EN,CRID=2173,CONTENTID=9066> and I've had
> nothing but trouble.
>
> First Supercheap Computers <http://www.supercheappc.biz/site/> tell me
> they've got one in stock for $56.48 and I can pay and they will post it
> off tomorrow. I do. They then say someone else grabbed the last one. I'll
> have to wait till next week. But the next day I'm told there's a problem
> with the next expected shipment and I'll need to wait till mid-APRIL! Well
> so much for them! (Got my refund a week later - this Wednesday just past
> as it happens - so that wasn't TOO bad on their part).
>
> I'm running out of time so I get fed up and waltz into the local Noel
> Lemmings (consumer electronics and appliance chain store) and ask them
> will they price match with another company - Compulink - out of Auckland
> (not Supercheap - price was REALLY low cause it was a parallel import).
> They agree and I get the speakers for NZD$80 (were $119 which is oddly $10
> more than Logitech themselves give ?!? ). I take them home and set them
> up. The sound is GOD-AWFUL! The bass is out of control even with the
> subwoofer turned down as far as it will go and iTunes' equaliser lowering
> the bass frequencies. Every slightly bassy sound is a THUD. People with
> deep voices in spoken word podcasts are DISTORTED by too much bass!!!
>
> I cannot believe how bad these speakers are. Even the highs sound flat.
> It's like Logitech only cared about bass at the expense of all else. And
> it's not the subwoofer (which is turned down all the way remember). It's
> the tweeters that are ruining the bass sounds! All they do is THUD THUD
> THUD every bass note. I'm returning them tomorrow for a full refund
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet


They sound terrible.
I think a lot of PC speakers are designed more for sound effects (games &
movies) rather than hi-fi music. Also, some people seem to equate
"quality" with "lots of bass".