[LAU] Advice for buying speakers

[thomas fisher]

On Friday 07 September 2007 03:05:08 Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 schrieb Leslie P. Polzer:
> > I'm going to move to a new home and want to replace my crummy old setup,
> > which consisted of a very old stereo amp and a collection of assorted
> > speakers.
> > I would like to do the following:
> >   * listen to music all over the room (so this probably disqualifies a
> > 5.1 setup?)
> >   * do semi-professional audio (voice recordings, singing, guitar, synth
> > with MIDI keyboard)
> >   * watch a movie every now and then. That's not really important,
> > though. Is that enough for you to hand me some advice on what to get?
>
> I bought the Alesis M1 Active MKII about two years ago for exactly the same
> usage. They are still 333€ on thomann.de
>
> For surround in movies I also connect my old amp and 2.1 speakers for the
> rear channels (if I fix the cabling after the last move)...
>
> Arnold

Very educational audio links:

http://www.dv.com/features/features_item.php?articleId=196603270
http://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?articleId=23902967
http://www.dv.com/columns/columns_item.php?articleId=189600212