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Hey all i need a new set of speakers for my pc. They will be used for gaming and music. I have a budget of around 70 quid, what do u reccomend??
 
I'm just wondering, has anyone ever had a set like the Z5500 and then bought those Aego M's? if so was the Aego M's higher quality sound and as good bass?
 
C64 said:
Aego make high quality hi fi retailing at thousands of pounds.
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audi make 100 thousand pound super cars, whats your point? lol

willhub said:
I'm just wondering, has anyone ever had a set like the Z5500 and then bought those Aego M's? if so was the Aego M's higher quality sound and as good bass?
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the aego m's urinate on the z5500's from a great height. the sat's intergrate much better and the sub has a flatter responce. they aren't the last word in sonic performance, but for 2 little sats and a sub they are pretty exceptional
 
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james.miller said:
audi make 100 thousand pound super cars, whats your point? lol



the aego m's urinate on the z5500's from a great height. the sat's intergrate much better and the sub has a flatter responce. they aren't the last word in sonic performance, but for 2 little sats and a sub they are pretty exceptional
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And bass performance? can the bass go louder or as loud, I know it sounds stupid, but on some songs I like to have lots of bass.

Does the Aego M's also have something built in to stop you overpowering the sub? this is a problem on the Z5500's and when you turn it up loud it starts to bottom out on some freqs and the voice coil on the sub gets soo hot.
 
james.miller said:
they arent for bass heads really. they dont lack it at all, but they arent boom boom boom like the z5500's. im sure you wouldnt prefer them lol
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What do you mean like Boom Boom Boom? I've been trying to get my Z5500's to sound boomy like they apparently are but have no luck.
 
z5500's are bass-heavy. the aego M's are the opposite. when you move further up the ladder with audio, everything gets more 'seemless'. subwoofers in particular, they intergrate better with the rest of the speakers, making them less obvious, ie: you wouldnt know its on unless you turned it off, only really slamming when required, when watching an action flick at reference level and a bomb goes off or something

that's exactly the opposite of what you want. you want bass that sticks out, get's in your face and shouts 'YEAH AND WHAT????????" :p

the aego's are lovely little speakers, but im just thinking, im sure you'd end up being dissapointed with them. if there's anyway you can try them, or get a friend to buy them first ( :pp) do that instead lol
 
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So what I want is bad? Boom Boom Boom is bad right?

When I listin to moves I like the bass at a nice level, sometimes it seems like the bass is coming from the sattelites which is very weird.
 
its not bad if thats what you like, it's just not how its meant to be. i went through the whole bass-head thing myslef. had the sony mini-system with the big floopy bass drivers that went boom but not much else - loved it at the time. added a car tube subwoofer that i powered with an old amplifier, that was awful too but i still loved it.

But, the more i listened to music (and films, though not so much) i started to realise that some notes were much louder than others, the timing at the bottom end was way off (meaning notes were being played a fraction later than they should be - VERY annoying after a while), i had no midrange at all because of my crappy speakers and my even worse 10" tube sub. i started to get tired of my stereo, mainly because i was using earphones and headphones which just sounded SO much better (flatter, much 'snappier', smoother midrange and a top end that wasn't bright and tiring). i wanted that sound from my stereo. so i got my yamaha av amplifier, changed to some cheap floor standers and got rid of the sony system and speakers, and it was much better. still pretty poor compared to what i have now, but it was more enjoyable. i *should* have got a decent stereo amp because that would have made a much bigger improvement for music, but i wanted surround sound too, and i couldnt afford both.

That sub was terrible though, that had to go. so i built one :p only it turned out to be much better than i'd anticipated. i wanted a somewhat generic subwoofer enclosure (nice size (3.5cu.ft) for a HT sub, low tuning ect) that i could put a better Home.Theater driver in at a later date and improve the system further. for the time being, i just wanted something better for a cheap price. i found a cheap driver, the Lightning Audio Strice DVC 12" 12.4. i believe is the model no., put it and and tuned the port to the right length, and something amazing happened - it blew me away. it blew my father away. hell it even really impresssed my dad's friend, and that werent easy with the gear he was running (£400 cd players and whatnot). but it was very limited with that crappy amp. As ever i wanted to do it cheaply, so i was in luck when a friend gave me a creek 4140s2 which i used to power my subwoofer. yes, squiffy, badboy, anybody else who's reading, i used a creek amp to power a subwoofer:p. it worked too, only 30w rms a channel or so at full tilt, but it did the job nicely. that got hammered for a year or so (the power light used to dim :p) untill i found the bargain of the century in cash convertors - a denon pma-100m, 100w rms per channel (8ohm) for £35. not a mark on it and they retailed for close to £200 at the time. i snapped it up and ive been using that since. for those that care, that creek is still going today (4 years or so after i hammered it for a year straight) in somebody else's little system. nice little amp. Anyway, durning that time i got rid of the floor standers (well, they are my rear speakerts atm) and bought some mission m71i's for the front. i loved the sound then, it was nice.


.....buuuut. i starded to get tired of that to. so i went all out, and dropped 800 noted on an all singing all dancing onkyo tx-sr805 which is absolutely stupidly powerful and can hold a decent tune as well. good enough for me anyway, and fair outclassing my little m71i speakers.....you know what's gonna happen next:o (bye bye missions)


wow long post. anyway anyway the moral is...actually i dont know. but once you start on that upgrad path, trying to get things to work together better, better timing, better stereo imaging, be preparred to get suckered in to it. its expensive but i hope you do start on that path. there is so much more to audio than even the little aego m's.


ill shut up now
 
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Looks like you spent a heap of money.

For anything cheap, but powerfull, thats got quality bass, mids and highs how much would I be expecting to pay? anything that could produce more bass and of a higher quality than my Z5500? You use car subs? Could I not get a cheap Alpine Type-R, and an amp, slap the 12" in a good box for it, connect it to the amp, use me Z5500 sattelites for a while untill I get cash for speakers?
 
badbob said:
Actually <£1000 :-) I've got a SVS 20-39 PC-Plus Cylinder Subwoofer, £600 and far superior to PC speaker subwoofers.
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my PC sub proberbly costs about £50, I doubt its 11 times more powerfull and more accurate.

For my first propor real HT sub I'm set on a BK Monolith, I will get that sub one day.
 
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