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Ahh… New Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers came today. I’ve now replaced my older Altec Lansings from 1995. The ALs were really, really nice, better than most other speakers, but they had a bad 60Hz buzz coming from the subwoofer. I got these speakers as refurbs for $99 for the pair, with sub. They retail for $179 – $199. Not a bad deal… I’ve only had two problems. First, they forgot to ship the speaker cables with them. A phone call later and they are on their way. I’d been wanting to make some custom 16 gauge cables for them anyway, so I got out two 3.5mm mono plugs (yes, the back of the speaker accepts 3.5mm plugs for the amped signal, for some unknown reason…) and the speaker wire, then made up the connectors. I thought about putting six-way binding posts on the back of each speaker, but I can probably leave this work for another day. If it’s even worth it… Anyway, I hook everything up and they sounded like shite. After some troubleshooting it looks like there might be a problem with the input line, some wiggling around in the iMic (USB sound device for the G4 Cube) and everything is good. These speakers sound real, real nice. Definitely worth $99 for the pair. Now I only need to rearrange the office… And find a new place to mount the iSight, as it had sat on top of the old speaker.