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Best speakers for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium card
We recently brought a new HP Z800 Workstation, 2 3.46 Processors, 48 GB of RAM, plus 5.5 TB of added storage and Windows 7.
We have the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Sound card.
We are a video production studio running Premiere Pro 5.5. We do mostly corporate videos with not a lot of sound design but occasionally we get a little deep. We usually output to the web or DVD.
I have a fairly unlimited budget but really would rather save a few dollars if we will not be taking advantage of it.
My questions are as follows:
Which audio output should we run our sound monitors from; Optical S/PDIF Out or should we go Analog?
If we go analog or digital what monitors should we use? (I know this highly opinionated question but if you can list a suggestion or two it would be nice)
Any other suggestions would be great.
Thanks for the help.
Tom
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3 Replies
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Assuming you’re talking about active/powered speakers, there are not many that can accept a S/pdif feed. An analog feed is fine. As for choices, there are more choices than Heinz has pickles. Look at JBL, Genelec, Tannoy, Mackie, KRK, M-Audio. Your local Guitar Center or Sam Ash music shop is a good place to start.
Eric
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Note very carefully that Mr. Toline did NOT mention any of the “computer speaker” brands. Nor did he recommend shopping for speakers in a place where computer stuff is sold. It is safe to say that there are NO “computer speakers” that are worth a diddle. Look at those powered speakers sold for home studio monitoring, etc.
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I realize I did not want “computer” speakers. I was actually more concerned about the digital out of the card but figure I would throw the speaker question in since I was here.
Thanks for the reply’s I will update once final purchase is made.
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