16°C, clear.

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New speakers for the PC.

Though a vast improvement in the sound quality over the previous pair, the bass is a bit bloated. Treble & mid are clear such that they actually sound sterio rather than 2 mono channels. I expect with a bit of fiddling that they will sound better. Music is always the real acid test, but I rarely listen to mp3s, more often it’s internet radio, both of which suffer poor sound quality in the first place. There is always the limitation from the quality of the sound-card which is a generic motherboard mounted job. The better sound cards are separate – and the best are external to the computer case to reduce hum.

Creative have fallen onto the marketing ploy of stating the output wattage as a guide to it’s loudness. Such a practice is absurd, 14W rms has no connection to how loud they go, we need to know the sensitivity of the speakers to find that out. the units to look for are db/W (decibels per Watt). At least they didn’t publish pmp in watts ( peak music power), that is the most misleading spec that pseudo-hifi companies use.

…that completes my recent run of of oders from Amazon.