portable speakers

[Joe Blythe]

Hi Andrea,
I have no idea about what sort of speakers to use. In the field I was  
lucky enough to be able to plug into some computer speakers that were  
in my field site anyway. They weren't too bad. They ran off mains  
power so they had a bit of volume and they a volume knob. However  
what was nice about them was that the speakers has a 3.5 mm headphone  
socket built in to them. Then I also had a splitter with a male 3.5mm  
jack on one end and two female inputs on the other. The splitter  
plugs into the laptop, my headphones plug into one input, the  
speakers into the other and a second pair of headphones into the  
headphone socket in the speakers. That way you can sit around with a  
group of people and there are two sets of headphones to pass around  
for careful listening. That way you get the best of both worlds with  
no plugging and unplugging.

A splitter is cheap as chips and sooooo useful. I'd get two in case  
you lose one. They're only small.

If you are dealing with overlap (which you may well be) there's no  
substitute for headphones.

That's my two cents worth.

Joe

On 26/02/2007, at 6:51 AM, Andrea L. Berez wrote:

> Hi List,
> I'm now in the market for a set of portable speakers to take into  
> the field. Preferably something that is compact, light, of good  
> quality, and plugs into the headphone jack of my laptop and/or  
> Edirol r-09. It will be used during translation/transcription  
> sessions with consultants, but I'd like to it be of high enough  
> quality that it could also work in classroom presentations. I've  
> budgeted around USD75 but could go up to USD150 if it's worth it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
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> Andrea Berez
> PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
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