Using a proper Amp and Speakers for my PC.

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Hi guys,

I bought Aego 2.1's a month or so ago and I'm not really happy with them at all to be honest. It's made me think that I should've just gone the 'whole hog' and got a proper amp and speaker set up instead.
I would really like some advice on how to go about doing this, and what a good quality amp and speaker set up would cost.

I use my PC as my main 'stereo' as such and play games on it as well. I don't watch films on it though.

Any idea's woud be fantastic, price would be under £400 if possible.

Cheers! :)
 
i done what you wanted a about 7 months back, have a look into NAD BEE 315 & mordant short 902i they should fit your price range :)
 
i use a NAD 3020e and a pair of KEF egg speakers on my PC ( i replaced the front two from my surround system in the living room with floor standing speakers ) sounds pretty damn good.
 
What're the outputs that are used to connect this to a PC by the way, please bare with me as I'm not really that up to speed with connections other than not putting square outputs in round inputs... :D
 
headphone jack to rca lead.

I've got a Yamaha CR-620 (older than me, was my Dad's!) and a set of Tannoy Mercury F1's. Fantastic sound, couldn't be happier.

Andy.
 
I've been having a look and thought maybe the following would be good?

Rotel RA-04
Arcaydis DM1's

I decided to splash a little more cash than I thought I might, only young once!

Any thoughts? :)

Thanks for the responses so far!
 
I went with:
Cambridge Audio A1 Anniversary
and 2x Gale Mini Monitor's (iirc)

Much better sounds for everything tbh, went thru numerous sets of pc speakers.. wasting my money each time :(
 
Once you've gone dedicated audio components you won't listen twice to PC speakers again :p
 
Whoops, forgot to add, I have a ASUS Xonar soundcard at the moment, would I still need that, for plonking the headphone cable in I mean, or could I just sell it and use the onboard sound card headphone port?
 
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The signal will still come from the soundcard so keep a good one or get a DAC and as for headphones, the Amp will probably have a jack.
 
Raikiri said:
The signal will still come from the soundcard so keep a good one or get a DAC and as for headphones, the Amp will probably have a jack.
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Hey Raikiri, what I meant by the headphone comment was that I was told earlier on that to connect the amp to the PC, I need to use a Headphone jack > RCA lead, but thinking about it, I guess he meant that as a connection rather than literally connecting the amp to the pc via that particular input! *facepalm*

Would a DAC be better anyway though? If so, I'd prefer to get one if it makes a big difference.
 
DAC would make a substantial difference, but a decent one worth buying that will be better than a sound card, will probably set you back £140. I think below £100, you probably wont get anything that is really that much better than a decent sound card. If you really felt like going to town, it might be worth hanging on to your Xonar, get the speaker + amp for now, and then when you have the funds maybe get a CA DAC Magic, or for less than £200, a Beresford Caiman. £140 would buy you a Musical Fidelity V-DAC.
 
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