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obieards

New Speakers (and Sound Card)

Aug 25, 2005 18:00

After sampling speakers at this one store, I fell in love with the Logitech X-530. It's an excellent set of 5 speakers (central, front l/r, rear l/r) plus subWOOFer, but the price was $90. "Well, let's go to another store to see if we can buy them cheaper," I thought. The next store we went sold them for $80, but who'd'a thunk that we'd find ( Read more... )

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speaker buddies! umbrarumcantus August 25 2005, 23:19:35 UTC

your system seems very much comparable to my speaker system... i got mine for like $50 after shipping from a site online, but that was a crazy nuts deal. you got a really good deal on yours, and good on ya for looking and finding them for cheap. surround sound is such a sweet thing. i have an internal Audigy 2 card, but as i have a desktop it's not eating up valuable space in a laptop, and it sounds fantastic. i hope you enjoy those speakers as much as they deserve to be enjoyed.

Re: speaker buddies! umbrarumcantus August 26 2005, 02:21:32 UTC

I have the option of setting the speakers for DMA--Direct Memory Access. Is there a huge difference between DMA and no DMA? I'm perfectly happy with the sound I have now.

Your speakers have slightly more wattage and for the price you got them, I concur that your online deal was "crazy nuts." Had I gotten the speakers before the 20th of this month, I would have received $10 rebate on the sound card. Oh well, big whoop; I'm gleeful!

Re: speaker buddies! umbrarumcantus August 26 2005, 02:34:05 UTC

DMA isn't a feature i'm familiar with, so i honestly don't know. my educated guess would be that you should turn it on if you have a large amount of system memory (RAM), but that if you don't have a large amount then turning it on might cause you to take a performance hit at times. but as i say, i honestly don't know. that's just what i'd guess from the name and how memory could possibly be involved in audio output.

Re: speaker buddies! obieards August 26 2005, 12:39:45 UTC

Question:

If you had to mount your speakers on the wall in your dorm room, how would you do it?

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lingmonkey August 26 2005, 14:15:00 UTC

Your setup sounds just like Gavin's. I think he got the same speakers and sound "box".

Where are you living this year?