Speakers and sound card : Budget:10K

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chiragsthakur

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My friend needs a sound card and good set of speakers, he mostly likes to listen trance music and high bass music.

Budget in total is 10K.

Please suggest a combination... He already has ALTEC LANSING VS4621 octane 7 but needs something better. Can a high end sound card suffice or those speakers need a change??

Regards,

Chirag
 
What sound card does he have right now?
Better get him the asus xonar listed by pristinenote.
Depends on the speakers you intend to pair it with.
For those non optical link type speakers the sound card upto 1.5k can suffice but those to the likes of altec lansing mx5021 (i know it is EOL, just trying to make a point) performs their best with sound cards having optical output.
 
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He doesnt have any.. Uses onboard audio.

Should he purchase Edifier DA5000 pro without soundcard?? Are they worth? What about the soundcard you bought recently? Is it good?
 
buy a asus xonar dx for 4.5k use it with your speakers and then you yourself can decide whether you need better ones :)
 
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So guys are you sure he should invest first in sound card and then speakers?? But the budget would still remain 10K. If he decides the sell altec lansing vs4621, then you will find my post in market section ;)
 
Your friend can go for the THX Certified Logitech Z623 for 7k odd. These are very nice pair of speakers especially good at movies and bass heavy music.

Personally i have tried many sound cards in the past and i dont think that buying a 4.5k card for a 5k speaker makes any sense. A decent sound card for example the Creative Audigy series does not sound much different from a Xonar...Yeah some people may jump on me at this statement, but unless you are an audiophile, you wont notice the subtle differences.

For a Speaker worth any less than 8K, a Audigy worth 1.5k would more than suffice.

You can look for Audigy + Z623 for the 10K budget and this is a very future proof investment. If you are unhappy with the sound card and want a high end one, you can go for it later :)
 
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I directly jumped from onboard to a asus xonar dx , so for me differences were of huge margin :) so cant really comment on that part .

I have the ad700 headphones and the headphones sounding just good enough for games in onboard sound card came totally to life with surround effects etc with the xonar dx , so i must say a sound card over the onboard brought a very noticeable differnce in my Headphones , yea i had a ok set of speakers(ok for me :P) (still have it) , a altec lansing 2.1 costing around 1.8k some 5 years back , they never sounded much different with it , so i think at the EOD its the source and even the gear which is used with source which matters and not to forget the purpose . The xonar dx are more pronounced for their gaming audio quality improvement more than anything else .
 
chiragsthakur said:
Do you think Altec lansing VS4621 will sound much better with a good soundcard?
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Not much... I've tried it..

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clown_abhi said:
For a Speaker worth any less than 8K, a Audigy worth 1.5k would more than suffice.
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I hav to disagree on this statement.. Done this test on my VS4121..

Sound Blaster 5.1 VX - 0.9K

Sound Blaster Audigy Value - 1.4K

Xonar DX - 4.5K

All my friends were able to notice the diff. Xonar DX made the room shake, which the 5.1VX & audigy value failed to do...

But when i did the same for VS4621/Octane 7, the diff. was not much from onboard to Xonar DX...
 
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