PabiGamito

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Hello,

As the tittle of this thread says, I am looking for good surround sound speakers that are not too expensive and that are compatible with macbook pro (although I know most are). Obviously I would like the speakers to have the best sound for their price.

Please post the model name and price, and a customer review if you can. If you can't remember the model just name the brand. Please try and list as many as you can think of, even if they are a bit off budget.

Thank you very much.
 
Actually, most aren't compatible. Any kind of PC surround system, most of the time has 3 inputs as most PC sound cards have multiple outputs, 1 for Front L-R, Rear L-R, and the last for Center and Sub.

Macbook pro only has a headphone jack out, so no way to drive surround from that, and thus most PC surround speakers are out.

Audio systems can get surround from HDMI, but I'm not sure how well that would work without passing the video through the HDMI. It may work depending, but most all-in-one surround-bluray players only do surround for the bluray and don't have inputs, so that leaves buying an AV receiver and speakers, not too doable under $150 for anything decent, although I did get a great AV-5 HDMI input Denon receiver on kijiji for $60 and a 5.1 set of speakers for $60.

Why do you want surround speakers for a laptop. Why not a good 2.1.
 

PabiGamito

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I would like to use them for everything. But I would use them for listening to music the most, then for movies and lastly to play games, since I will use headsets to do that most of the time.