One For music Lovers!

[Solouko]

Hi all,
My friend is a music junky but he’s not very clued up on the PC front and he’s looking to get the best sound quality he can from his PC because he’s just started the switch to MP3s. he’s against the idea of upgrading his soundcard but he does need some decent speakers, what are the BEST 2.0 speakers you can get at the moment, and I don’t mean the loudest or the best for games I mean, gives the best music replication. Budget is unlimited btw. I was looking at the 2.0 Gigaworks speakers as I’ve herd good things about them and they’re a reasonable power (14 watt RMS) and reasonable price too.

Also, if he was going to upgrade his soundcard which brand tend to give out the best sounding music? In my opinion creative are not that good for music but awesome for games but I have had very little experience with soundcards (is a creative fanboy).

Thanks dudes, hope you can help.

 

[Solouko]

Don't get a PC orientated setup. If he's really into music then he should buy a stereo hi-fi amp and speakers and NOTHING ELSE. Especially if the budget is unlimited... which I don't think it is quite. No PC speaker setup will come close for music alone.

Get yourself to the hi-fi forum at the bottom of OcUK and ask about in there.

Thanks dude!

That’s an absolutely brilliant idea, and I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it myself, but… my friend knows as much about PCs as I know about Hi-fi systems… so here I go with the noob question, how do you connect a computer to a hi-fi system?
Or rather… what is the BEST way to connect them? I don’t even know what sort of audio input jacks hi-fi systems use o_o’

 

[Solouko]

ok, i think £170 is actualy more then my friend wants to pay for his music...

so lets set the budget to £100 or less

he needs good music playback from his MP3s and he always encodes his MP3s at the highest sample rate he can... he also records his bass on computer too so he needs good playback and direct play from his bass too.

so... he's got a really good hi-fi system, now all he needs is a decent high quality PCI/USB soundcard to conect his computer to it that costs less than £100

any more advice?