OK, I'm doing the final checks before I order my new PC, and I have realised that the 5.1 speakers I was going to get are out of the question as I have nowhere to put the rear speakers. As such I have had to switch to looking at 2.1 or stereo speakers. I have a budget of £50 and want to get them from scan ( http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-43-75-0 ) or Ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/search?sort=pr...imit=10&page=1 ). They will be plugged into an Asus Xonar DX soundcard.
I will be using them for gaming and occasional music (although I will be buying a proper hi-fi system for my room in due course, so they'll be used for music less often eventually, and no the computer won't be in the same room, so don't suggest plugging it into that). Games wise I mainly do flightsimming (FSX, IL2 Sturmovik, LOMAC) but I like the occasional rampage on Battlefield, various Source MP games and RTS games such as Company of Heroes. Music wise, they'll be used for jazz, classical and some rock (queen predominantly). I am a keen musician, so I'm quite fussy about sound quality, but I'm also 16, so I don't have an audiophile's wallet to play with!
I have pretty much narrowed down my choices to the Logitech Z-4 and the Creative T20. Obviously I realise that one has a subwoofer while the other uses just stereo speakers, but I'm not really sure how much of an impact this will make. Given my listening choices, a strong, clean bass sound is quite important to me, which would suggest the Z-4s are better, but my existing Dell speakers really annoy me because no matter how I fiddle with equaliser settings the bass sounds detatched from the treble, and I assume the T20s would have the edge on this front. Are there any other speakers in this price bracket that I should be considering, and has anyone here listened to the two that I have suggested, so that they can make a proper comparison between them?


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