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Playing music on a PC is like using a Swiss army knife to carve a steak. Nonetheless, millions do it, so the need for decent multimedia speakers is as real as that pain in your wrist. Logitech steps up to the plate with the Z-10 Interactive Speaker System.
The Z-10 works with your PC but also declares independence from it. First, it uses a USB connection to bypass your commodity-priced computer's piece-of-junk soundcard, substituting its own digital-to-analog circuit. And — your wrist will like this — it supplements your music software's controls with touch-sensitive buttons set into a backlit amber liquid-crystal display.
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This looks like a good idea, if only they sound as nice as they look, we're in business!!
PC sound has always been a bit naff if you don't know what to ask for when you're buying one.
Even if you do, you can still end up with very sub-standard sound. I bought a "top of the range" laptop from Dell not so long ago that cost in the region of £2700. It was an XPS M170 with all the bells and whistles (ahem!) and the sales type blokey asured me it had great sound as I had informed him I would be using it for music and video and needed very good representation of both. Well, ok, the graphics are very good, using an nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX (I think?) but the sound was complete and utter poo!
I have managed to get around this by buying yet more stuff for a laptop that should have had everything at that price! I use an e-Mu 1616 on a cardbus interface and it works very well.
I do wish, though, that someone would train these sales people in the finer points of their products, which are generally speaking, the bits we all interface with ie. sound and vision.
Never mind eh? These speakers are definately worth a look.

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