Will the following speaker set-up work/sound good?

Question

Is it possible to combine the following bits of kit:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-I-Trigue-5600-5-1-Speakers/dp/B00069BU0O/sr=1-5/qid=1162739556/ref=sr_1_5/202-4699793-0006200?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-CDP-CX355-300-CD-changer/dp/B0000AKKS9/sr=1-2/qid=1162738249/ref=sr_1_2/202-4699793-0006200?ie=UTF8&s=electronics

with a turntable (can anyone recommend a good, cheap one) AND my pc?

And if it did all hang together, would the sound quality be any good?

Answer 1

It depends on what sort of sound quality you're after and what your budget is. I work in the hi-fi press, and to be frank, the sorts of components on the links you mention will sound dire compared to decent hi-fi stuff at a similar price. It also depends on what you want your system to do. If you need a big CD changer, then that limits your choice, but if you're happy with a single-disc player, you can get something which sounds better for the same money because it's smaller (so less money spent on casework) and mechanically simpler than a changer mechanism (so cheaper and more reliable). The money saved this way gets spent on better parts in a single-disc machine (better power supply, better converters, etc). Same goes for turntables.

I live in the UK, and Richer Sounds have a lot of decent, cheap hi-fi components well worth looking at. I don't know which shops you'd want to check in the States or elsewhere.

If you want to use a turntable with your PC, you'll either need one of those USB turntables that's around at the moment, or a separate phono pre-amp which will step the output of the turntable's cartridge up to the right levele for your PC to handle it. (The USB turntables just have the phono amp built in, but they're not mindblowing quality).

Answer 2

Go with home theater speakers, those creatives cant handle but so much.