What's your sound system ? Home Theater ? PA ? other options ?

Please chime-in and post your system even if you have no other comment .
I just ordered the supped-up iMac and Logic Pro and I am excited to get started .
Now I'm just using my old Pioneer stereo system which really puts out but it's a mess of wires and I would like to get a new system .
Option #1) I'm looking for a small PA like the Passport 150 . Anybody ever use their pa for sound ? What about the Bose Column PA's ?
#2) There are lots of home theater systems in all price ranges since logic does surround sound .
#3) Pro studio speakers . I don't really see why they cost more ??
As a horn player I do like to turn up the volume sometimes to play-along so little computer systems (even really good ones) would probably not do .
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Pro studio speakers . I don't really see why they cost more ??
well this is a pretty simple one.. because studio monitors are actually a great deal better than home theatre speakers, in terms of faithfull reproduction of sound.
fact is, most sound systems for the domestic market are not much more than cheap components put together in nicely designed boxes. the boxes range from nicely designed to very nicely designed, and some high end ones are even extremely nicely designed.. boxes. made of either nice wood, very nice wood or extremely nice wood. then, you print a pretty, lifestyle-ey brochure, full of fancy looking diagrams and lots of talk of acoustics and transducers. these brochures range from nice to very nice to extremely nice, depending on how much you want to sell the system for, targeting exactly the kind of living room that it is designed to look good in.
if you want to use logic to record and produce music properly, you'd be better off going for monitors that are intended to let you hear what is going on as best as possible, as opposed to a system that is designed to give as exciting a listening experience possible for watching DVDs in surround, while looking well-coordinated with the sofa. the studio monitor market is pretty broad right now, there is a good choice of very decent powered monitors available at fair prices.

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