After having moved into my room for a while now, there has been something completely missing – the ability to play any music that actually sounds decent. Proper hi-fi systems over here are pretty expensive, and ideally I just wanted something I could play music off my mp3 player or computer without it sounding really tinny through my laptop speakers.

Even though I enjoy listening to music, I don’t really know that much when it comes to speakers, and thanks to Gerrod’s help I was able to learn a few things and work out exactly what I wanted in a system. So this Friday I ended up going out and purchasing the JBL Encounter set of speakers where the satellite speakers look like alien heads and the subwoofer like a space ship. I set them up and tested them, especially to see how the loudness would affect my flatmates and I’m glad to see that our walls are really thick and you can barely hear anything. They look great, but more importantly they produce really fantastic sound.