WillyWarbucks
Standard Member
I have my TV in an alcove. It fits in fine but the alcove limits my speaker choice.
My plan was to find some small passive speakers to plug into my wee crappy amp to get better audio from the TV. Initially I thought this wouldn't be a big deal, as I own a small set of multimedia speakers (£30 Creative Inspire) which deal out enough bass and sound clear enough to satisfy my modest (cheapskate) needs. They have 3 inch speakers and a range of 80Hz - 20kHz.
I would just use these, but they look a bit ugly and you have to turn a volume knob to switch them on. I just want to plug a set of passives into a small amp and leave that on indefinitely, so I can literally turn on my TV and go.
I bought a pair of Cambridge audio Minx Min12's but they lack any bass. They're definitely meant for a surround sound experience, rather than 'bookshelf speakers' as billed on the company's website.
Then on looking around for similar small speakers, I really couldn't find any that have any sort of bass range. There's the 10x10x10cm Monitor Audio Radius 45's. But these again are really meant to be used with a subwoofer. Range starts at 120Hz.
I know loosely that the laws of physics means bigger speaker cones can produce lower freq tones, right? But can a small passive speaker (3inch) get down to 80Hz? My cheap as chips multimedia speaker can do it. Is there digital trickery at play within that speaker which means it's impossible for a small passive speaker to do that?
(Sorry if posted in wrong forum, please move if not suitable here, thx)
Cheers,
-Will
My plan was to find some small passive speakers to plug into my wee crappy amp to get better audio from the TV. Initially I thought this wouldn't be a big deal, as I own a small set of multimedia speakers (£30 Creative Inspire) which deal out enough bass and sound clear enough to satisfy my modest (cheapskate) needs. They have 3 inch speakers and a range of 80Hz - 20kHz.
I would just use these, but they look a bit ugly and you have to turn a volume knob to switch them on. I just want to plug a set of passives into a small amp and leave that on indefinitely, so I can literally turn on my TV and go.
I bought a pair of Cambridge audio Minx Min12's but they lack any bass. They're definitely meant for a surround sound experience, rather than 'bookshelf speakers' as billed on the company's website.
Then on looking around for similar small speakers, I really couldn't find any that have any sort of bass range. There's the 10x10x10cm Monitor Audio Radius 45's. But these again are really meant to be used with a subwoofer. Range starts at 120Hz.
I know loosely that the laws of physics means bigger speaker cones can produce lower freq tones, right? But can a small passive speaker (3inch) get down to 80Hz? My cheap as chips multimedia speaker can do it. Is there digital trickery at play within that speaker which means it's impossible for a small passive speaker to do that?
(Sorry if posted in wrong forum, please move if not suitable here, thx)
Cheers,
-Will