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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: A10 speakers
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Date: 16 Nov 90 08:45:40 GMT
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In article <3638@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>ls3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laurence D. Silverman) writes:
>
>
>>	I  just received my A-10 speakers a couple of days ago.  They're quite
>>good.  They've got a treble and a bass boost.  The volume isn't
>>earth-shattering, but the tonal quality is excellent.  I think they well
>>worth it.
>
>Can these be the same A10 speakers I saw and heard at my local dealer?
>I thought they were awful. Low volume, tinny sounding. They sounded like
>the speaker in one of those handheld transistor radios (not the walkmans, 
>the kind that was popular in the 60's.)

There is a big button on the front these buggers.  If you don't push
the button in, you get exactly the sound you just described.  If you
do push it in, you get surprisingly good sound out of such a little
box (this is the bass boost).  The treble boost on the back helps,
too.

>Plug your Amiga into a REAL stereo. You will be AMAZED at the difference.

My former roommate has a monster stereo, with great big woofers.  I had
the Amiga hooked up to that and was playing Alien Syndrome (thus this
post doesn't need to go into .hardware).  I don't know how many of you
have played this one, but there is a heavy base line in the music.
Not too interesting, mind you.  It just goes "Womp. Womp. Womp. Womp.
Womp.", etc. and so on ad infinitum.  Anyway, I guess I had the volume
turned up a little too high, because the apartment manager came over
and chewed me out for the noise.  That bass really carries, and she
was in the next apartment!

In other words, maybe plugging your Amiga into the stereo isn't such a
good idea, after all.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.