Luxury PC Speakers Eclipse Cheap Rivals August 23, 2007

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The speakers bundled with many PCs are laughably cheap with the kind of flat, nasal sound output you’d get from Madonna without the backing of an entire studio and mixing room.

High-end audio maker Eclipse is planning to change all of that, and empty your wallet, with the very stylish TD307PAII. This pair of speakers and amplifier will set you back £400 and you might wish to know exactly why so much for a few eggs?

Well, first off, the company’s high-end audio speakers are the faves of people like John Williams, Michael Nyman and The Royal Academy of Music. Also, the shape has less to do with style and more to do with performance. According to Eclipse:

“The egg is the most rigid form known to nature, The sound from most speakers is coloured and 'warmed' by the resonating panels of a wood or plastic box. The 307II is engineered to let you hear only the accurate signal from the drive unit, with the cabinet itself adding nothing. A single full-range driver maximises time, phase and impulse characteristics and avoids the distortion associated with a crossover. The driver is decoupled from the enclosure, mounted on a heavy internal stand to avoid transmission of energy to the cabinet.”

What you end up with will no doubt blow away most cheaper PC speaker systems. If, like many, your music collection resides more on the PC’s hard disk drive than on CDs, they might be worth a listen. They go on sale next month at the Apple Store. See them in black after the jump.-Martin Lynch