portable powered speaker sought

[Andrew Barss]

I teach at a university, and I and a colleague are looking for
a good-quality speaker to carry around and use in the classroom.
It needs to be portable, as each of us would be carrying it on a daily
basis.

This is going to be used both general speech reproduction, but
also used to play edited speech files that have to do with
spech recognition (my colleague is an expwerimental cognitive scientist
who does work on real-time language processing). The speaker needs to
be loud enough to be heard very clearly in a room of 15-35 students,
and have decent enough reproduction that details of the speech can be
heard well.

We've had poor luck with the small battery-powered speakers
we've tried (Altec-Lansing Orbits) and USB-powered ones. Dores anyone
know of either a single speaker, or a pair of speakers, that
would fit the bill? One that contains an internal amp would be
fine, so long as they're portable (single/mono speaker would be great, a
stereo pair would be okay, and a 2.1 system wouldn't be portable enough).
And one used with a portable amp would also be fine, so long as the amp is
pretty small (and reasonably priced). Many thanks --

-- Andy Barss

[graham]

Give this site a look, it might have what you need...

http://audioengineusa.com/


"Andrew Barss" > wrote in message ...
>I teach at a university, and I and a colleague are looking for
> a good-quality speaker to carry around and use in the classroom.
> It needs to be portable, as each of us would be carrying it on a daily
> basis.
>
> This is going to be used both general speech reproduction, but
> also used to play edited speech files that have to do with
> spech recognition (my colleague is an expwerimental cognitive scientist
> who does work on real-time language processing). The speaker needs to
> be loud enough to be heard very clearly in a room of 15-35 students,
> and have decent enough reproduction that details of the speech can be
> heard well.
>
> We've had poor luck with the small battery-powered speakers
> we've tried (Altec-Lansing Orbits) and USB-powered ones. Dores anyone
> know of either a single speaker, or a pair of speakers, that
> would fit the bill? One that contains an internal amp would be
> fine, so long as they're portable (single/mono speaker would be great, a
> stereo pair would be okay, and a 2.1 system wouldn't be portable enough).
> And one used with a portable amp would also be fine, so long as the amp is
> pretty small (and reasonably priced). Many thanks --
>
> -- Andy Barss
>

[Andrew Barss[_2_]]

graham > wrote:
: Give this site a look, it might have what you need...

: http://audioengineusa.com/


Thanks -- the 2s might work, although I'd like to hear from a user about
the off-axis audibility -- I have a pair of MediaOne 4a speakers on my
desk now, and while they're nice, they have a tiny sweet spot.

-- Andy Barss