Acquisition of the Day

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678)
09/20/2020 at 23:38 • Filed to: None

My old Logitech system finally had enough with all of the input cables being broken and the subw oofer not quite working right anymore. After 10 years it was due for a replacement! So I have gone with a tried and true system, the Klipsch 2.1 THX. Costco had it on sale for $100 so it was a done deal for me. I’m not an audiophile by any means, but I appreciate good speakers. I at least keep my music in ogg format at a decent bitrate and my backups are in flac. So sound quality matters to me but just like mountain biking, I’m not about to spend $10,000 on the activity and will be plenty happy with the cheap stuff.

Number one bad review was the fact that these don’t turn off. I just used an extra power strip I had laying around, now I have an off button! And the stupid bright led on the front immediately got a piece of duct tape. They sound great for me even with the volume set to 20% because I live in a shared house. Either way for that price, these are more than adequate of a solution!

Next up for replacement is this laptop, also a solid 10 years old. I don’t know how it still works at all to be quite honest. Has serious memory issues since chrome crashes with more than a couple tabs open and nothing runs anymore. Current replacement is a mini computer I’ve got Ubuntu on. Other success of the weekend was getting simcity 3000 installed and working on there! But yeah I should search for a laptop in the near future.

DISCUSSION (9)

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/20/2020 at 23:44

My dad always had Klipsch stuff in the late 80's/90's. My hearing isn’t great after the Marines, I’ve had the same Altec Lansing set kind of like yours for maybe fifteen years and it still sounds good to me!

lone_liberal > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/20/2020 at 23:49

Nice! I just bought a cheaper Logitech set or I would have snagged on of those yesterday when we did a Costco run.

Chariotoflove > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/21/2020 at 00:06

Nice pick up.

wafflesnfalafel > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/21/2020 at 00:22

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/21/2020 at 00:26

Fun fact: Paul Klipsch earned his EE degree at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. They eventually named the CS and EE building after him, and there is small museum for him with some really nice speakers in it.

Amoore100 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/21/2020 at 00:36

Old Altec Lansings just don’t die; we’ve got a prehistoric ACS53 hooked up to our main family desktop and besides some faint crackling every now and then they sound a helluva lot better than the shitty little included speakers with the Dell package set.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Amoore100
09/21/2020 at 00:53

I’ve got the same thing going with a Harmon Kardon desktop speaker and subwoofer set I’ve had since like 2002 ish. I paid like $100 extra for them on a Dell desktop OI ordered in high school. They always made a much bigger and more full sounds than anything that small had a right to. They still work perfectly, even if that Celeron system was scrapped 15 years ago.

Amoore100 > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
09/21/2020 at 01:04

Are they Soundsticks? I picked up a set of them a few years back since there really wasn’t anything else quite as premium-feeling in terms of computer speakers that I could find at the time, and I like the design provenance as well even if they are a bit weird and dated looking by modern standards. I still really like them: the speaker setup is very functional in terms of producing good sound, and I do personally enjoy how they look. The Bluetooth connectivity is kind of shite, though, and the wired connection tends to go to a incessant static if I forget to mute them before shutting down my PC, something that’s woken me up quite a few times when my laptop automatically hibernates. T hat could be an effect of using a shitty extension cable on the 3mm jack, though.

Long_Voyager94 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
09/21/2020 at 06:52

I just grabbed a set of these for my work system after my Acoustic Audio system finally fried after 3 years, this is what I had: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Acoustic-Audio-AA2172-Bluetooth-2-1-Home-Speaker-System-with-USB-and-SD-Computer-Multimedia/472053635

Strangely, I think the Acoustic Audio system had a cleaner sound and I loved that it had a remote as I’m usually some distance away from my computer. The Klipsch system goes much louder without distortion and seems better built, so overall I’m happy with it, just wish the sound was a little crisper.