Audio help for music

[Jimbobcook]

Evening,

I know it's not car related but just seeing if anyone has any recommendations for a low-mid range audio system mainly for playing music in my man room (currently optical in from my iMac.

Budget is around the £150 but could stretch to £200 ish, I've currently got some 5 year old £50 2.1 unit (wired), fan of a bit of bass but as my main music taste is heavy metal its probably more good quality over feeling my insides moving lol

Ideally looking for speakers over a soundbar as there isn't much space under a mac for it.

Any thoughts welcome

Cheers

 

[bigcarpchaser]

Have a look on eBay. Filter search between £200-300 and there’s loads of reasonable speakers for sale.
They may be a bit older but will still sound great. Bowers Wilkins. Monitor Audio, Q Acoustics. Wharfdale, Dali to name a few.
Not sure how you’d plug em into a Mac though if I’m honest lol


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[Jimbobcook]

Yeah I did think about going 2nd hand from the bay, it has its pros and cons I guess, I may give it a look see. I see much research being done over the weekend haha

I've got aux 3.5mm and optical out for the mac but I assume I could get Bluetooth etc working as well if its fancy pancy

Cheers

 

[bigcarpchaser]

Bowers Wilkins used to do some pukka pc speakers but can’t recall what they were at the moment.
Guessing most of the speakers I suggested would require a decent amplifier to drive them so maybe it wasn’t such a good suggestion after all lol.
I’ll ask a mate who knows about this stuff


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[bigcarpchaser]

Yep.
Mac to amp to speakers
Might knacker your budget though


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[Jimbobcook]

Yep.
Mac to amp to speakers
Might knacker your budget though


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Yeah unfortunately it's proper overkill to get an amp and then speakers, I don't play music that loud and space is limited as I'm in the classic box room that supposedly counts as a bedroom lol

I'll do some more digging and see what I can find. Thanks for your help

 

[rafletcher]

Get a Denon mini-system? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324831589314?hash=item4ba178b3c2:g:6hYAAOSwItZhaDqS

 

[Jimbobcook]

Get a Denon mini-system? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324831589314?hash=item4ba178b3c2:g:6hYAAOSwItZhaDqS

I think with the space I have available that might be a bit big for the main unit, I looked at some 2nd hand bose companion 3 setups as that should suit my needs as I can hide a sub behind my desk...