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Old 11-03-2007, 02:29 PM
Arp220 Arp220 is offline
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Default Re: Help me buy things- win up to 100$!


I mainly listen to classical music (yea yea i know) so sound quality is obviously pretty important. I suggest:

1 - If you want good sound quality, probably the simplest thing to do would be to stick with itunes and mp3's, but up the bitrate to at least 320kps. I tested this against flac encoding, using a pair of etymotic ER4p's (which are excellent by the way) and couldnt tell the difference.

2 - I love my Logitech MX revolution. Highly recommended.

3 - Speakers - for under 500, and assuming you want 5.1, the Klipsch promedias are by some margin the best. If you want audiophile quality and don't care about surround sound then they're not a good choice thopugh (to be fair, neither would any gaming speakers, the klipsch are the best of that lot)

3 - Laptop - get a 'cool pad' to slot in underneath it. Newegg sell them and theyre an excellent idea.
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