Speakers!
September 15th 2003
Just the other day I went out to Emeryville (as we do every so often because there is, frankly, no large shopping center in Berkeley) with some friends to get things. I had this $50 Best Buy gift card, you see, so I had to get rid of it. I wanted a set of sattelite speakers for my sound system, because, although my two front speakers are very good and sterio sound is the preferred medium for quality music listening, surround sound is cool. So with that in mind, I went to the speaker section, hoping to get away with a decent pair of little speakers for $50 or $60. Well, I wasn’t looking for much at all, and I found a set of KLH 911-B 2-way bookshelf speakers (pictured) on sale for a whopping $19.95 a pair. And they sounded decent, even though I was in no shape to be buying speakers given that my cold had plugged up both my ears (which have just now finally unplugged themselves).
I took them home (along with 2 new CD’s, thanks to all the cash I saved — the Seabiscuit soundtrack, and the classic Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” both are great) and plugged the speakers into the B channel to test them out alone. They’re noticably harsh on the high end, but not too bad. In fact, for the little 5 1/4″ woofers, they sound pretty full. Not too bad for $20. So I plugged them into the rear channel, and tried the Dolby Pro Logic out with the Seabiscuit soundtrack. Pretty sweet sound, that’s all I have to say. Yeah, it’s processed, but it’s cool and that’s all that counts. Hehe, I heard our room described as “literally cool” the other day. Maybe it’s the three TV’s.
I like our setup very much. All I need now is a center channel! Okay, math lecture time. 
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