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Speaker choice?

gemster

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 4:35PM

Hello,

I am currently running my Dell Vostro PC through my LG TV to watch movies and listen to music. I was unable to master using my TV speakers to play sound running from the PC, so i've decided to purchase some speakers for better quality than my (tiny and free) Dell supplied pc speakers.

Now I am by no means a techy person and have no idea what i'm looking for. I dont want all the bells and whistles, just something that will play decent sound. I've found these two speaker sets on amazon.co.uk - could anyone recommend either one (on gone on reviews so far) or something else and do i need a subwoofer? I don't really want to spend more than £40.

Thank you so much for any advice you could supply.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Inspire-T10-Multimedia-Speakers/dp/B000WQIKJ0/ref=sr12?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1330360289&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Inspire-T3130-Speaker-System/dp/B002N46YD8/ref=sr139?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1330360316&sr=1-39

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Toneman

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 6:22PM

I have the Creative Inspire P380 which includes a subwoofer. Think these may now be superseded but they are very effective for playing music, films etc. on my little laptop. I would think that a subwoofer would be a great asset to the two satellite speakers, on their own they wouldn't be much better than your present ones.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 6:53PM

How do you have it connected?

VGA cable and audio cable ?

or HMDI cable?

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Bingalau

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 7:31PM

I thought we were having a change of speaker in the House of Commons for a minute there.

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gemster

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 8:17PM

The PC is connected via VGA to the tv and audio cables from the PC to the current speakers.

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morddwyd

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 8:45PM

Bingalau

Me too.Thought Bercow or his wife had finally gone too far!

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 9:38PM

Does the TV have Audio in jack socket or Red + white component socket?

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Forum Editor

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Posted February 27, 2012 at 11:34PM

Transferred to Consumerwatch from Speakers Corner.

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