best speakers for under 80?

kirillywhat · Post by **kirillywhat** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:56 pm

looking for some speakers to do the basic need of providing alrite sound from a laptop. need to put 2 bad boy portables on my desk and emphasis on portability. at first i was looking for one that is powered by nothing/or usb, but that limits the shit out of the selection, so powere AC is alrite as well. from the research ive done, it seems like the stand outs r Alesis M1Active n the AKAI RPM3. if anyone has experience n prefers either of those two, or have other suggestions, please do tell.

as a note,
i listen to everything. so versatility would be good. doesn't need to be super bass-heavy or be best for hip hop or something.i dont want no dr.dre portable speakers if he makes em, ya know.

thanks in advance for the advice.

kirillywhat · Post by **kirillywhat** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:07 pm

thinking bout it, and im definitely looking for the lower price range. maybe even less than under 80? im having a hard time deciding whether i should spend the rest of my paycheck on this, but if there is a decent one for under 50 that might make my decision easy

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:08 pm

I'm not sure what currency you are using but under 80 sounds rather cheap. I bought a pair of M-Audio AV40s and while they are ok I wish I had saved up and bought something better. I recommend that you save up a little more and buy 1 decent speaker (maybe one of the KRK ones, they seem reasonably priced) and buy another at a later date. You can use headphones for panning, stereo effects etc.

mikeyp · Post by **mikeyp** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:29 pm

you'll just be wasting your money. you're better off waiting or buying a pair of headphones

kirillywhat · Post by **kirillywhat** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:32 pm

i have two great KRK rokit 8s back home (im from chicago), n itll take a bit before i ship em out. so i need something to be alrite for the meantime. something to just throw in a suitcase n hook up whichever flat i live in. i saw the chill pill/similar design speakers (http://icrontic.com/uploads/2008/12/img_6251.jpg) which are meant to be exactly what i need, but is it worth getting these over using laptop speakers?

i had an austrian buddy who had a great pair of these two that only had a headphone jack. no usb no power cable. we took em out on picnics n chillin by the lake. just straight input into the comp n it had a great sound. or at least pretty loud.

i just need something to walk around the flat to. i know im not getting studio monitor speakers here but im sick of my laptop speakers.

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:38 pm

Get the best monitoring headphones you can buy with $80 and an extension cable like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5mm-stereo-pl ... B0000992SR if you want to walk around

skwiggo · Post by **skwiggo** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:07 pm

Save up 20 quid more for a pair of AKG K240 mkII headphones. They'll serve you much better than cheap shitty monitors.

AxeD · Post by **AxeD** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:31 am

You can't get decent monitoring for that but for listening just go with one of them 2.1 pc setups.

Climax · Post by **Climax** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:46 pm

I was using these for awhile for just listening to music and playing computer games and internet videos and such, they sound pretty good and are right your price range:

http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Studiophi ... 314&sr=1-2

or these too:

http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-StudioPro ... 314&sr=1-8

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