Why you never try analog?
Get a nice pair of RCA cable and use Direct Sound v2 instead of Kernel Streaming or ASIO, would sound nicer IMO.

my impression on this 2.0 channel with a piano finishing is just like a very nice to see but the sound quality still long way to go.....

i been tested this speaker last year before i brought my Esi NEAR05 classic.

not to pour cold water on anyone; did you guys notice this set of speakers has quite a number of negative remarks on Google result? Some commented that the decoder uses lowly components etc. Not sure how true is that though.

don't forget, speakers are heavily influenced by environmental acoustics. Place your speakers at a lousy place, you get lousy sound quality. On the other hand, placing your speakers at a perfect spot, you get awesome sound quality.

My recommendation? Go headphones

dont like tat lah, ppl jz bought speakers and soundcard

haha better put on your flame suit before the speaker taikors come and whack you

I love how the S2000 sound. I haven't try aegoM, but I am really impressed with the S2000 when audition them. The S2.1MKII when compared with the S2000 really feels like it is in different league. The clarity is waaay better, not even close. I know it is unfair to compare those, but the only speaker which can be compared side by side S2.1MKII.

I strongly disagree with you bro.
Analog sometime may perform better than digital.
What i mean Direct Sound v2 here is a kinda of output for foobar2000.
As for your sound card setting, I'm not sure about it, but its better to leave it default.

If you really want it to sing well, just play some music instead of playing white noise. IMO, burning-in with white noise is the most ridiculous thing even though Edifier themselves recommends it.

Even though S2000 is huge and pack awesome powers, actually it still not really that powerful enough to place more than 3m apart. Just place them 2-3m apart with slight angle centering to yourself. Doesnt need to point them at your ears, just slightly angled it towards yourself.

I felt that it sound awful if you turn up the treble setting. Just leave it at center. Bass does feel a bit lacking, but dont turn them up too much. Somewhere around 5-10 degree is more than enough. Becos S2000 lacks a sub to exaggerate the bass, I really do feel that it starts singing well if you turn your volume up to at least half (in my case, I lowered foobar volume to -6db). EQ'ing the song doesnt make it sounds good in any way.

The best thing about it of course would be its refinement like I said. Aego M sounds nice too, but lacks the refinement you get from S2000. I find it a bit harsh and annoying when you crank the volume up. Not to mention the underpowered sub. For me, its not even a problem to crank the volume on my S2000 decoder to the max when I had foobar at -6db. It still sing beautifully unlike most speaker system packed with a 2" or 3" sattelite. For me, its even on par with the CDT Audio 6.5" component speaker I used to have in my car years ago, just that the 5.5" wasnt able to match the midbass produced by the CDT.

Dont use digital connection cos the DAC is so-so only. The amp itself is a decent one, so dont worry about that. Why dont you get a better soundcard to test it? Comparing both 0404 and Prodigy, I felt the vocal is definately sharper/clearer when using 0404. If you think your S2000 sounds bad, just plug in any speaker whether its MX5021, S2.1, or whatever it is. Play a couple songs and then plug back your S2000. Feel the difference. Instead of blasting forward like most speaker will do, it creates something like a soundstage and its huge. It doesnt matter whether you sit in front of it or you sit 5M away, it sounds the same. Thats why I like to crank the volume up and enjoys it. My mum always scold me when I turned to the max. She said I wanna blew up the house.

The soundstage is there, regardless of the volume level. Its just that I find it sings well once you turn the volume knob past 50% (in my case, Im using ASIO and have -6db for foobar volume). I suggest u play it loud instead of playing white noise. Just start by playing those vocals songs first. Then slowly switch to those a bit bassy one. Honestly I din even burn it that much. Just play at 50% volume for few days and straight away I started blasting it at full volume.

lAh0s heard of my sytem b4 at full volume. It can get loud, really loud without feeling annoying which is fun.

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Added on June 19, 2007, 5:00 pmBTW, how much you bought it anyway and where?

BTW, Edifier S2000 isnt really hi-fi standard   
It qualifies as a pretty decent 2.0 multimedia/bookshelf speaker but not hi-fi standard. HiFi sounds a lot better than it does.

IIRC, PcWorks says its sounds flat, so he prefers AegoM le.

Ooo... Edifier showroom promo price huh... must b RM999...
I too waited till PCFAIR where they promo it for RM999...

Walabies,yuheng,pcwork...let's take down S2000...
AegoM vs S2000...yo..a very interesting topic
We should find some ppl who had listen to S2000 and AegoM before and ask them which sound better...

Can do it in @ Edifier showroom. 
I also want to try the Aego M too.
After the comparison, u can try out de Edifier car speaker too.

Edifier you so open leh....
Can give us try and compare...

Hahaha..you really funny...My fren, Edifier showroom sure got Edifier S2000
Who want you to bring lo, bring a AegoM ma...

What is the price of the Aego M?

Boss Alex, if want i can bring my aego M to ur there to try AB test XD
if u dun mind to pay for the parking
i will bring a long CDP gua if want
if marcus there
i bring along Michael Buble CD 
but have to find 1 day ur guys free n i free also...

no.. just asking only 

S2000 comes with external decoder which include an amp la.

I already did a comparison with my bro AegoM so count me out. Besides Im very busy, 6days work.

My impression of AegoM is a bit like Akabane. Its good but for me, its just as good as it gets. S2000 offers something different. Thats why I said taste matters. It offers refinement, details and smoothness over the AegoM. Though it might lack a sub, but honestly if you ask me, comparing to AegoM, I dont feel I miss the sub.

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Added on June 20, 2007, 5:14 pmBTW, test in Edifier showroom?
Lastime I audition the S2000 there. Seem like they are using either on-board or Audigy1 only le.

Are you sure they're using Prodigy 7.1 ?
From what I know they're using on-board only if not mistaken.

Active or Passive, it still has to have an amp... and in this case, they are seperated as they wanted to include a BB DAC for digital input processing. But I kinda feel the digital connection is a bit of a letdown.

Dont get me wrong. Indeed digital connection is created to allows user to bypass the sound processing and allows consumer to use more superior external device to process the sound. This is when you have superior external decoder.

But the BB DAC inside the S2000 decoder is somewhat outdated and nothing spectacular. Just feel the quality of the sound is inferior when using the decoder processing compared to EMU0404.

Im gonna send my 0404 to Ijan for modification pretty soon. Just waiting for his signal to sent the card. One week later, I gonna test out whats improvement will I be presented with.

Under powered? Dont know why you said so. I have to set Foobar at -6db to avoid clipping and left ASIO at 0db. That way allows me to crank the volume to full without clipping. Same method used by ICE tuner where they use osciloscope to adjust gain on amp while maxing the volume on the cd player. Its really loud minus the bass of course. Why dont you make a second trip to Edifier showroom to test it out yourself. Dont be shy.. just crank up the volume all the way till you feel enough ba. Its 40W RMS per channel so I think you either too shy to crank it up or you're deaf.

Hahahaha.. actually to be honest, I have no idea.
I too was poisoned by Ijan post back in Team EMU. He has finalise the mod and will take a week to complete it after he received the card. Just haf to wait n see.

seem like s2000 vy hard to configure one. i would like to ask, coz i m using laptop so my soundcard should be external and now i own a Philips PSC805, can it drive s2000 well?

and s2000 muz need an amp juz can work well one ah?

I heard tht during PC fair the price of s2000 may only RM999. Is it possible for this coming 3-5 August Penang PC fair?

Arssoo would be interested to lend you his set I think.

lol
too bad this few weekend full schedule
next week end gonna have fun at KK for 1 week
while tomorrow got Transmy 3rd gathering ( for transformers fans 1 XD)
then sunday need to go shop for the KK trip
hopefully after back from KK, i can find slot, then i'll contact u,
or if want, u bring ur set to my place better, at least only move ur S2000
then we both test n find some 1 else come to audit it

Lolz.....can I come and audition it?
I hope to hear this two speaker vs...
When its the date.....hope I'm free..

arrsoo,

you can forget about the 0db for ASIO, cos im using emu0404 which has this in their control panel.