Music Techies - Wireless Active Speakers - Logitech

[mockney piers]

Seriously though, how do you get anything but for under ?500?

Especially off a laptop, he just wanted something better than a crappy laptop speaker.

I'd have still gone for something with a sub woofer for a little oomph.

Actually not to hijack the thread but am pondering getting some new speakers, budget ?4-600. Any good recomendations?

[*Bob*]

I'm sure Jeremy will take you to Richer Sounds if you ask him nicely.

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The government's apparently announcing a 'scrappage scheme' for old boilers today...if you hang on they may do this for old speakers in the next Budget

[*Bob*]

I remember going to a friend's house a few years back, and we popped in to see his next door neighbour.

He took us into his lounge, where he had these just-unboxed enormous walnut and ebony columns of sound set up, connected to one of those amplifiers that only has one huge knob and a tiny light on it. He selected a particularly well-produced CD, cranked it up and the three of us stood together, in optimum stereo reception position, listening and appreciating the nuance and grandeur of pure and unadulterated stereophonic bliss for the duration of 3 minutes and 35 seconds.

And I remember thinking to myself "If I ever become this man, I will throw myself off Tower Bridge"

[Jeremy]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I'm sure Jeremy will take you to Richer Sounds if you ask him nicely.

I was sure you were going to recommend something else from the innovations catalogue - perhaps a Bose® Wave radio?

[*Bob*]

I apologise, Jeremy.

I've just remembered that you worked part-time making the tea and coiling-up cables in that tinpot studio during the summer of '94 - so I guess you know your stuff.

[Mick Mac]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Good luck with the Logitechs, Mick.

>

> ?99.21 of mediocre sound awaits..

Lets see. Its a small gamble. If it does not work out then its wife's preferred option of a new hi fi system which will cost considerably more I fear.

[Jeremy]

Scarily accurate. Except it was 1992, and it was a fairly top-end studio.

I got quite good at cleaning the gold plated (you heard me) jack plugs on the patch cables. Unfortunately I blew it when I bought the wrong type of coffee from Sainsbury's... twice.

The fact remains - Mick Mac didn't buy your silly little yellow radio. Get over it!

[SeanMacGabhann]

eeek

watching *Bob* and jeremy "fight" at Christmas time is a bit too much like my childhood. Make it stop!

[*Bob*]

Let's make-up.

We can all go to Richer Sounds and buy the tape recorder with the slowest and smoothest eject mechanism.

[Jeremy]

Tape deck, you say...

Oh go on then. Only if we can cables with gold-plated plugs.

[*Bob*]

Are there any other kind..?

And don't forget to spend 10/metre on that oxygen-free speaker cable. Otherwise your ?150 amplifier might not reach her full potential.

[mockney piers]

I know you like to condescend to us all sometimes bob, but fact is music sounds shite through a fifty quid aiwa stereo.

There is a middle ground between an ongaku valve amplifier and liquid nitrogen cooled speaker cable and 3 gram piece of plastic that purports to recreate recorded sounds.

[*Bob*]

I understand, Mockney.. you've boshed a wedge on quality hifi and now you need to justify it.

I'm with you.. me and my novelty plastic radio.

[mockney piers]

If by 'boshed a wedge' you mean less than the cost of a maclaren puschair over the past ten years then yes I have.

Well done.

How's that feeling of superiority goin with you, making you feel better about yourself?

Enjoying getting a rise *tee hee chuckles into hand see what i did there I'm soooooo clever* so to speak? That's good.

Good for you, seriously, well done.

Edited to say some moods are better than others. Some moods' mothers etc...

[*Bob*]

Well this is all rather confusing.

Yesterday, I recommended something I actually own with a genuine thumbs-up, which costs ?120. Jeremy and you shot it down, on the grounds that it was yellow and mono and cost ?120. Mick then bought something something that costs ?100 which is nearly mono but worse in every way that the ?120 model, except wireless, which is nearly pointless.

And I'm the bad guy?

[mockney piers]

Yep, that's pretty much perfect.

[*Bob*]

I think you've also made the mistake of assuming that my inclination to spend ?120 on a yellow mono radio must be the tip of an audiophilic iceberg indicative of ?10,000 of uberHiFi below.

We have two micro system things, less than ?200 each.

I have some studio monitors, which are (relatively) inexpensive at ?1000

We have a novelty Tivoli PAL radio.

Of all these products, the Tiv is the one I like the most and use the most - even for working on..

[mockney piers]

"I have some studio monitors, which are (relatively) inexpensive at ?1000"

oh my. I think no more needs to be said. Do you?

Off to the naughty step *Bob*

[Jeremy]

To be fair to bobbby, his studio monitors are tools of the trade, and it would be unfair to compare it to the price of a hi-fi.

Although saying that, if he convinces the rest of the world that mono is the way to go, he could probably sell one of them.

[*Bob*]

? ? ?

?1000 = entry-level studio monitoring.

The equivalent of, say, you working on a ?400 laptop.

[*Bob*]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Although saying that, if he convinces the rest of

> the world that mono is the way to go, he could

> probably sell one of them.

Not at all. Stereo is a wonderful thing, but for the purposes of what we're talking about, it isn't everything.. and more to the point it isn't anything if you're going to buy a unit that has adjacent speakers anyway.

[mockney piers]

Of course of course, but I bet they impress the neighbours don't they, eh don't they just; when you know full well some polystyrene cups and string would do the job just as well.

I work in government, I've an old Terminal on a VAX9000 and greatful for it.

[*Bob*]

That's right, the neighbours cack their pants with envy every time they see my budget monitors.

[ruffers]

Anyhoo, is this about games sound, music or what?

If it's music then get a squeezebox, maybe a Boom