Speakers for a Quicksilver

My HK Soundsticks have just failed due to a fault in the power converter - an iPod sized box that drives the three speakers and HK cannot supply a replacement, although the Soundssticks II model which replaced it came out only a few years ago. Can anyone suggest replacement speakers, which have to connect via USB, since the G4 Powermac and Apple Studio Monitor do not have a hadphone jack. As far as I can see most speaker sets now have only a miniature plug connection, e.g. Soundsticks II and the JBL and Bose lines.

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