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Old February 12th 10, 08:23 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
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Default Small but decent speakers

Laurence Payne wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:03:17 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

Interesting, but I'm willing to bet they sound crap on speech. They will
have been 'optimised' for an 'exciting' sound on games etc.


I'm not sure I actually WANT "hi-fi" for speech. Unlike music, I have
no desire to luxuriate in the sound. When I start hearing the studio
sound, the speaker's mic technique etc. it gets in the way of the
content. Radio 3 might get switched to my good speakers. Radio 4
communicates best on my crappy little bedside DAB or the car radio.


Quite agree, radio 4 and the crappy bedside DAB unit fill many of my sad and
lonely waking/semi-waking hours.



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Bill Coombes