A few years ago, I thought I would get a playstation II and start playing video games on a playstation instead of the computer. It was kind of a strategic change in direction because it was starting to cost too much money to continue staying current enough to play the hot games that were coming out. So, although the PC had seen me through many great late night (virtual) slaughterfests I felt I needed to hang up my keyboard and focus on the playstation for the hot new video games.

But this didn’t work out for a number of reasons. The TV we had it set up on was dinky — it was only 13″ and its hard to get sucked in by such a small image. I tried to buy a new TV but my wife was afraid the furniture it was on wouldn’t hold it. Its a set of shelves that aren’t quite 18″ deep. And at the time all the TV’s used cathode ray tubes instead of LCD and they had this very heavy glass screen at the front. Anyway out of a fear of it toppling over we never got one.

Also the sound stunk. Its really little more than a portable TV with some of the worst speakers on the market. The sound was tinny and small and weak. When you’re blowing things up you really need to “feel” it. To combat that I bought a Desktop Theater 5.1 from Cambridge Soundworks. In the end the connections never fit quite right so I didn’t use it and it sat in a box for years because there was nowhere for me to put it.

Finally the whole strategic change in direction fizzled out because I just didn’t like playing video games on the Playstation.

At work I am now sharing an office with two other people. They both come in several hours after me so I brought in the old set of speakers and amp and have been enjoying the crap out of it yesterday and today!! The sound is really great! I don’t care if the technology is practically 10 years old; the sound quality is really great! I have a subwoofer under the desk and some of those adorable CSW-cubes sprinkled around my desk and the deliver really great sound.

Out-bloody-standing.

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