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Repairing and Upgrading Your PC
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Repairing and Upgrading Your PC

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
448 pages
16h 7m
English
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Speakers and Headphones

No matter how good your audio adapter is, it's useless unless you have speakers or headphones to listen to the audio it produces. Computer speakers span the range from $10 pairs of small satellites to $500+ sets of up to nine speakers that are appropriate for a home theater system.

As is true of displays and input devices, personal preference is the most important factor in choosing speakers. Speakers that render a Bach concerto superbly may not be the best choice for playing a first-person shooter game like Unreal Tournament. For that matter, speakers that one person considers perfect for the Bach concerto (or the UT game), another person may consider mediocre. For that reason, we strongly suggest that you listen to speakers ...

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