2.1 speaker system

oliverstoned wrote: "To protect oneself from the painful experience of being wrong, the human brain tries to maintain the illusion of an audible difference. It's the same with politics, religion, astrology and any other aspect of our daily lifes." It also aplies to your theories, like the one saying that tube amp are less good than solid tate cause they have more distorsion. But we have already discussed it.

Yes, we did discuss it - No, I didn't say that. You can object to what I'm saying, but please don't go around and tell that I said something which I clearly did not. It only shows that you don't really pay attention to what I'm saying.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: I have seen some test of cables using spectrum analysis to see if the signal was different with expensive cables and with cheap cables and there actually was a difference

Sure, nobody denies that there is a difference that shows in a spectrum analysis. The question is: Can you actually hear the difference ... the only way to find out is to conduct listening tests. And these usually show that most people simply believe to hear an improvement of sound when they listen to a sample and have been told that the $1000 cable is used - even when the cable hasn't been changed at all. That's what I meant above ... a placebo effect, wishful thinking.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Besides electrical devices can pollute the power net severly, i know i had some troubles getting a device that communicated through the power net to function properly because of all the pollution.

Also no denying here. But again: I'm sure than in most houses (at least in industrialized areas) the power lines are not causing any audible noises or pollution. Computer networking via power lines operates at much higher frequencies than audio (like 1,000,000 times higher).

I use an AIWA hi-fi system, it a 2 speaker system!!!

However also I use a AMSTRAD micro hi-fi which is suprisingly good too!!

And my personal recommendation!

DALI 2002LE!

B&W ASW300 subwoofer

Lindsay Lohan wrote: But many enthusiaists like to have a own electrical course for their HI-FI equipment to ensure no interference by other electrical appliances. And i belivie that this is certainly the best idea

I don't know ... is it really a good idea to spend thousands of dollars on a magical device that might improve your sound in case of interference which you couldn't even hear in the first place?

Lindsay Lohan wrote: Certainly on my pc speakers if you turn the volume up to say 60% you can already hear alot of noise (Even some noise from the PC itself.) So certainly filters of some kind would help!

My PC is connected to my Harman-Kardon amp & Elac speakers (I know oliver - the system sucks). I can turn the volume WAY up and don't hear any noise.

What soundcard are you using? Independently of that you should check your inputs ... make sure that mic in and line in are disabled.

Lindsay Lohan wrote: I use a old and cheap Creative 5.1 ( i never bothered in fancy pc sound at all) I always picked up noise from the CD-rom, power supply and HDD  of the pc and i have tried everything! But i never found a efficent way of cancelling it

I can only say that I had that problem both with the soundblaster live and on my two notebooks - but not with the Audigy 2 ZS, and not with the X-Fi. With these cards I don't hear the slightest noise even with the volume turned up 75%.