Creative speakers

[fierydemise]

I know Creative's highend speakers are good but I was wondering about their lower end Inspire speakers, I can't find that many reviews but most have been favorable. Mostly for gaming and DVDs a little music but not much. I really want to hear what people who own them say, not just "I heard they arn't very good"

 

[Valkerie]

if it's analog, don't count on it...

the high end analogs are good, but if you're going high end analog, you might as well go for digital connectivity, that is, if your soundcard can fully support it

I think that if you can get a surround home theater with digital, running from your soundcard, and with a nice Xplod sub(s)? it's better than any PC speakers you'll find in the market. but of course, that's my opinion.

at any rate, don't get creative speakers at mainstream, they suck.

Altec Lansing XA3021 are the best mid range 2.1's (extremely, very Xtremly low distortion with bass and sound/audio clarity) = A+ for price and performance.
You'll find some bad reviews on these, but from a trance mixer like me, you've got one of the best here, XA3021.

 

[The J]

I had Inspire T5400s and they weren't terrible considering how cheap they were, but I had problems with them. Music wasn't too bad (though the 5.25" sub was not great), but games and movies distorted when things got loud. This was mainly noticeable with Doom3 and Call of Duty.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Valkerie
if it's analog, don't count on it...

the high end analogs are good, but if you're going high end analog, you might as well go for digital connectivity, that is, if your soundcard can fully support it

I think that if you can get a surround home theater with digital, running from your soundcard, and with a nice Xplod sub(s)? it's better than any PC speakers you'll find in the market. but of course, that's my opinion.

at any rate, don't get creative speakers at mainstream, they suck.

Altec Lansing XA3021 are the best mid range 2.1's (extremely, very Xtremly low distortion with bass and sound/audio clarity) = A+ for price and performance.
You'll find some bad reviews on these, but from a trance mixer like me, you've got one of the best here, XA3021.

Digital doesn't really make a difference over analog if you have a decent sound device driving the speakers.
You have to really take away the speaker quality bottleneck before the difference in analog vs digital matters.
It all has to be changed to analog in the end anyway. If you're giving a set of computer speakers a digital signal, they're decoding it internally and changing it to analog. If the speakers own DACs are not much better than a quality soundcard, then you're not really gaining anything other than fewer cables.

 

[jamesch]

Interesting claims...

1. Digital > Analog
2. Altec Lansing XA3021 are the best mid range 2.1

Hmm... Lol@this thread