Thinking about the Logitech Z-680s? Hold your horses...

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: Huma
not to be a troll or an @ss in general, but if you're willing to spend $400 on speakers, do yourselves a favor and pick up an old receiver and a pair of good bookshelf speakers.

While they won't offer surround sound, they'll sound so much better for music and you can always add speakers to it as you save up some coin.

My friend picked up a used kenwood 405 receiver for $100 and a pair of paradigm titans for $230 and really, they sound great. He ended up upgrading the receiver to a denon 1802 and adding speakers up to a 5.1 system and it's pretty deadly.

Those high priced klipsch and logitech pc speaker setups have nowhere to go other than replacement and a new pair of high priced speakers. When I first bought my titans, I didn't think they sounded much better than my altec lansing acs-48s, but after using them for a while, I can't go back to computer speakers without noticing all the deficiencies in the sound. The bass is generally crap (you will learn this after hearing a good sub) and the sound just muffled compared to good speakers (paradigm, axiom, rockets, mirage, energy, some polk etc).

Of course, some people want their 5.1 sound regardless and that's fine. I just know I could never go back to pc speakers. But for similar amounts of money, don't buy into surround hype and consider quality vs quantity of sound.

I would tend to agree, but you are sort of missing the point. First of all, they are under $300 in most places. Second, in my case, I was not getting them for any music listening at all. I was setting up a HT and Xbox setup in my room, and I did not need nor have the room for a large component setup, and it would have cost me much more. The 680's I have are used for three things and three things only...DVD's, TV in PLII mode, and Xbox gaming in 5.1 DD. For that job, these 680's do a better job than a good deal of those HT in a box setups, and being small in size they are perfect for a small to mid size room.

 

[Lore]

Originally posted by: Huma
not to be a troll or an @ss in general, but if you're willing to spend $400 on speakers, do yourselves a favor and pick up an old receiver and a pair of good bookshelf speakers.

For 5.1 setups, I looked into those "home theater in a box" systems at some local stores and realized that the Logitech and Klipsch systems actually sound BETTER than those do... and cost less or about the same. I think at this price point, the two choices you have are the really low end home theater setups (home theater in a box) or some really high end multimedia speakers (Logitech or Klipsch). If you wanted to spend about $600 you might get a better system, but that's double the price of the Logitech system for marginal improvement.