new speakers :o
January 24th, 2006well i have been saving all this money for japan, and figured i had a bit to spare with my trip being cut short 1 month and all…
i bought a yamaha 6.1 amp/speaker set 
. i had a look around at quite a few systems with larger speakers, but really i don’t need the power or have the space in my little corner so i fell back to a nice satellite set. they sure produce a nice crisp sound though (compared to my blown altec lansings they kick some ass lol).
there is the standard left-centre-right and identical for rear, as well as quite a powerful sub. positioning may take a bit of playing around, but it seems to be working nicely without any special mounting of the rear speakers yet.
i am yet to have any method of outputting more than 2 channels of sound to the system (hello 1994 sblive!value) but it does a good job using in-built dsp at converting this to surround. once my new card arrives with optical spdif out, it should be another story 
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omfg that looks pwn
hurry up x-fi!
taking its time