[LAU] 5.1 hardware

Not strictly Linux-related, but I want to know if anyone has recommendations for 5.1 speakers for editing 5.1 audio. Most 5.1 speaker sets are aimed either at PC gaming or home theatre applications. I'm a classical music recording engineer and I do all my recording work in the field with a laptop and a firewire mixer/interface - a mixture of stereo and ambient 5.1 with a Williams Star microphone array. I then copy the recordings onto my editing PC at home which currently has a regular amp and stereo speakers. I edit 5.1 recordings "by inspection", editing each channel in turn and just hoping the final product sounds OK. I don't hear the finished product until I burn a DVD-Audio disc and play it back on my Blu-Ray home theatre system. I don't think I would want to use a 5.1 speaker set for my stereo editing work so I would want to switch from the stereo amp+speakers to the 5.1 set. Probably means having two sound cards. I am on a tight budget so I'm wondering if I can get away with a cheap 5.1 set just to check the levels between each channel, but still use my decent stereo speakers for all the other editing. Thoughts? Cheers, Jonathan -- Jonathan Gazeley Senior Systems Administrator IT Services University of Bristol