Misc: Computer Expo

Today I came to a Computer Expo held at one of the exhibition building in my city. There's many reason for me to come there. First, we might found something not usually sold at a shop in usual time, and I did found that! I see a soundcard that not usually found in any shop in my city, but it's too bad that I'm not bring much money that time, so I just skipped this rare opportunity (T_T). Second, if there was an expo, then there's a high chance that we can get something that have lower cost than usual (I bought a flashdisk with 2 Gb capacity and it cost me about $15, which is $5 lower than usual price). But in the end, I just coming out with just a new flashdisk in my pocket and I bought no other things. It's ok though, because there's many exhibition held on August too, so I just wait till the next expo and start 'hunting' for something valuable there ^_^

Speaker Change : Altec Lansing VS2121

In late 2005 (several month after I bought my PC), I decided to change my speaker first. The only reason for that is because my standard speaker is way too awful to hear. It give a muddy sound and no bass punch at all.

The speaker I used to replace my standard speaker is Altec Lansing VS2121. It cost me about $40 (if the currency of my country are converted to US Dollar, that is). This speaker have a total power of 28 watt RMS (well that's pretty much and far exceed my previous speaker system which is only have 5 watt of power). As I expected, this speakers sounds much better than my old speaker. It have clearer sound, both in treble and mid, and it have a nice bass too (because it's a 2.1 configured speaker, that have a subwoofer in their package for producing low frequency sound including bass and some lower mid).

I'm pretty satisfied with my setup now. Changing my first speaker was really made my music listening experience different than before. But my multimedia-PC building just begun, and there's a lot more to do before I can consider my PC as a multimedia PC.

Making multimedia PC : First thought

If you interested in watching movies, music listening, or maybe playing games, you may think that you need an LCD display, a DVD and CD player that can play your DVD movies or music CD's to feed your interest in movies and musics, a home theater speaker system that may be accompanied by a good AV receiver for better Audio and Video output, and a video game console. And for that, the cost you have to pay would be so high.

Then, if you have the same interest yet tight on budget and don't want to spend that much of money, you can easily make your Desktop computer into a multimedia PC that can accomplish all of your multimedia needs. The cost would be quite low compared to make a real multimedia system, and the goods you need will relatively easy to find