jkharmer
Established Member
Hi,
Not posted for a long time as have been happy with my current lounge AV setup for a long time. I am not, however, happy with what I have attached to my custom built desktop PC.
Current setup is this:
It is purely a work / interent browsing machine, I do not play any games on it at all. I need a set of speakers to allow me to listen to stuff on youtube, maybe the odd netflix / amazon prime programme, a bit of Spotify and video conference calls. I also want to be able to plug my Sennheiser headphones in and max the quality I get out of these as well - is this what a DAC does?? I don;t really know what I am talking about when it comes to this sort of stuff.
I have been considering something like a Denon PMA 60 with a set of cheapish bookshelf speakers such as Q acoustics 3010. The headphones can connect into the Denon and I can easily control the volume on the front of the Denon as well. It would fit nicely in the gap between the centre and left monitor stands, as well as complement the "look" of my current set up. My desktop PC does not have a dedicated soundcard, just the onboard stuff which has a 3.5mm output jack and that is it (no optical). I figured that I could connect the Denon by USB ...
I was looking at active speakers as well, but I don't think they would support my headphones, unless anyone can tell me of any that would do this of course. I guess I could look at a set of active speakers and then something to plug my headphones into? Do you think I am going down the correct route for this? My budget is £300 to £500 absolute max and am happy to go down the used route if needs be as well.
The current Creative Pebble speakers are terrible, they whine when you switch them on and you can hear them when you are not listening to any music so you have to turn them on an off all the time - a pain in the bum! DOnt sound great as well, but they only cost £25 so wasn;t expecting anything ground breaking, they were always a bit of a stop gap.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks, James
Not posted for a long time as have been happy with my current lounge AV setup for a long time. I am not, however, happy with what I have attached to my custom built desktop PC.
Current setup is this:
It is purely a work / interent browsing machine, I do not play any games on it at all. I need a set of speakers to allow me to listen to stuff on youtube, maybe the odd netflix / amazon prime programme, a bit of Spotify and video conference calls. I also want to be able to plug my Sennheiser headphones in and max the quality I get out of these as well - is this what a DAC does?? I don;t really know what I am talking about when it comes to this sort of stuff.
I have been considering something like a Denon PMA 60 with a set of cheapish bookshelf speakers such as Q acoustics 3010. The headphones can connect into the Denon and I can easily control the volume on the front of the Denon as well. It would fit nicely in the gap between the centre and left monitor stands, as well as complement the "look" of my current set up. My desktop PC does not have a dedicated soundcard, just the onboard stuff which has a 3.5mm output jack and that is it (no optical). I figured that I could connect the Denon by USB ...
I was looking at active speakers as well, but I don't think they would support my headphones, unless anyone can tell me of any that would do this of course. I guess I could look at a set of active speakers and then something to plug my headphones into? Do you think I am going down the correct route for this? My budget is £300 to £500 absolute max and am happy to go down the used route if needs be as well.
The current Creative Pebble speakers are terrible, they whine when you switch them on and you can hear them when you are not listening to any music so you have to turn them on an off all the time - a pain in the bum! DOnt sound great as well, but they only cost £25 so wasn;t expecting anything ground breaking, they were always a bit of a stop gap.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks, James