Stereo Speakers - best wall mount solution under 600 EUR

[chrisr34000]

Hello everybody!

I'm looking for new speakers to use mainly (85%) for movies, but also sometimes for music. The source will be a Desktop with a X-Fi Music.

Because I don't have much free space in my room, I'd be happy with a 2.0 solution, where I don't need a subwoofer or a center. My room looks like this:

The TV is drawn black, white and brown are some desks. To the left there is a window. As you can see, the geometry of the room is special and the only free space for standing speakers would be in the corners (the red dots - they would be 5 m apart, as the room is around 14 m^2 big).

So, perhaps a better route to go, would be with wall mounted speakers.

Therefore I am looking for

- active speakers or

- passive speakers+amp

for max. 600 EUR. Something with a great price/performance ratio would be awesome .

What would you suggest? I'd prefer active monitors which work very well, even when they are placed 5 cm next to a wall. This way, I'd be able to skip the amp, but I'm not sure if passive bookshelf speakers would not sound better when placed near a wall. Is there any difference between active and passive (in this price range) in this regard?

Also, should I upgrade my X-Fi Music to an Asus Xonar? Would this bring any noticeable performance difference?

Thank you for your time and help, I appreciate it alot!

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I think Behringer Truth B3031A would be good choice. They are active. They are front ported so you should not have issue placing them right against the wall and they are in your budget
And yes, they are really sold at amazing price for their performance.

I would not recommend investing ANY money into internal sound cards. If you are don't have issues with noise/hum/buzz leave it as it is, but if you do . You should go with external audio solution. I had Creative Audigy2 ZS which started to be extremely noisy after I upgraded my video card. Going with optical out of on-board card to AudioEngine D1 almost fully cured the noise/humm issues.

Also then going unbalanced cords to active speakers, make sure to pick up shielded RCA cables - these don't have to be expensive

 

[ImcLoud]

I think Behringer Truth B3031A would be good choice. They are active. They are front ported so you should not have issue placing them right against the wall and they are in your budget
And yes, they are really sold at amazing price for their performance.

I would not recommend investing ANY money into internal sound cards. If you are don't have issues with noise/hum/buzz leave it as it is, but if you do . You should go with external audio solution. I had Creative Audigy2 ZS which started to be extremely noisy after I upgraded my video card. Going with optical out of on-board card to AudioEngine D1 almost fully cured the noise/humm issues.

Also then going unbalanced cords to active speakers, make sure to pick up shielded RCA cables - these don't have to be expensive

I agree with everything above, I own the d1 dac and the truth 3031's {awesome sound, and very powerfull, no grilles but ehhhh'} they will make an awesome 2.0 system, especially if your tv has analog outs, nothing simpler than that...

 

[chrisr34000]

Hi,

thank you so much for the answers.

How would the Behringer's perform against Adam F7?

 

[ImcLoud]

Not sure, after reading about the a7's I would go behringer myself, ooops I did..

 

[chrisr34000]

Not sure, after reading about the a7's I would go behringer myself, ooops I did..

On the forum or reviews/articles? Do you know some reviews which compare these two?

What's your opinion on Paradigm on-wall speakers:

http://hometheaterreview.com/paradigm-cinema-330-on-wall-speaker-reviewed/

Would this be a viable alternative?