Cool Design and gadgets Lastest news*: piano-black finish to match my quad-monitor setup and the Sony receiver

11/04/2012

piano-black finish to match my quad-monitor setup and the Sony receiver

I picked these up for use in my studio, for my computer. They sound spectacular and wish I made the switch from cheap $100 computer speakers to these years ago. They are connected to a Sony STR-DN1000 receive, which is connected to my Asus Xonar Essence STX via the optical out.

My only complaint about this system, like others have mentioned, is the cheap use of spring clips for the wire connection on the back of the satellites. They do not take 16 gauge speaker cable, so I had to trim my cable at the unsheathed part down to 14 gauge to fit and stay put - The 16 gauge kept falling out. Additionally, the wall mounting brackets and the spring clips are a little tricky to manipulate, especially since I had to design myself custom brackets to mount the speakers to my large, L-shaped workstation desk, so I could get the speakers off of my work space.

Overall, they sound great. The sub sounds great too being able to adjust the frequency and volume level. My studio is only about 14'x16', so I have no issues with "small-bass" like another review stated. In fact I needed to turn the volume of the bass down after adjusting levels on my computer audio card and then on my receive.

Great buy for the money. They look great too having a mostly piano-black finish to match my quad-monitor setup and the Sony receiver.I bought this after a good week of searching for about $350. My goal was to get my Samsung LCD, Sony dr3400ES AV, PS3 (blue ray player), DVD, Tovo, iPod, and Media Center all interfaced with a set of great surround speakers to be able to listen to anything on any one of these devices. I did not want to go above $500 either but at the same time, I did not want the very lower end.

My last choices were this and Polk Audio RM6750 which was about $200 (a lot cheaper). Both had great reveiews. I chose 705 because it had smaller speakers and newer look in addition to great sound. The speakers and base occupy less room.

They are connected to a Sony AV dr3400ES and they produce magnificent sound. Whether it is mp3 music, blu ray movies, or hi def TV, the combination gives great sound with any decoding I have tried: Dolby variations, DTS,THX, stereo, Sony Cinema, ...

It fills the whole living room with great crisp sound and the bass can really shake the whole house for those who love bass. It was easy to set up though if you do not have a Subwoofer OUT on your AV or other equipment, there is a way to connect it to get the bass to the Subwoofer using a couple more speaker wires (older AVs) using the amplifier connections. If your AV has a subwoofer OUT, then you need a subwoofer wire with an adaptor to connect to the subwoofer here. It also has an amplifier which is specially useful if you want directly connect to an equipment bypassing your AV or amplifier.

Cool Design and gadgets Lastest news*

11/04/2012

piano-black finish to match my quad-monitor setup and the Sony receiver

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