Active speakers under £150

Napster88

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Hello.

I am looking for a pair of active bookshelf speakers to improve the sound of my TV.
Searched online for a decent pair under £150 and found the edifier r1700bt whch seem to have a decent sound for the price. I am also interested in thees ones at they have bluetooth.
Any other good speakers in this price range that I should consider?
Also, If I am gong with the edifier r1700bt, thees only have RCA input to pass sound from the TV.
I would like to use the wired input form the TV so I can leave the bluetooth connection open so I can connect with an iphone and listen songs from Spotify.
My question is, as I only have the RCA input on the speakers, how is best to connect them from the tv? Thees are the options:

RCA to RCA
Optical to RCA
3.5mm to RCA

Thanks for the help.
 
Napster88 said:
Hello.

I am looking for a pair of active bookshelf speakers to improve the sound of my TV.Searched online for a decent pair under £150 and found the edifier r1700bt whch seem to have a decent sound for the price. I am also interested in thees ones at they have bluetooth.Any other good speakers in this price range that I should consider?

Those Edifiers look good and you'll be hard pushed to find many other activities with integrated remote controlled pre-amp and Bluetooth for that money

Also, If I am gong with the edifier r1700bt, thees only have RCA input to pass sound from the TV. I would like to use the wired input form the TV so I can leave the bluetooth connection open so I can connect with an iphone and listen songs from Spotify.My question is, as I only have the RCA input on the speakers, how is best to connect them from the tv? Thees are the options:

RCA to RCAOptical to RCA3.5mm to RCA

Thanks for the help.

RCA outputs are a rarity on TVs these days so probably isn't an option, optical would require a DAC so an extra box and expense so you're probably left with using the TVs headphone output (3.5mm jack) as the only realistic option.
 
Napster88 said:
Hello.

I am looking for a pair of active bookshelf speakers to improve the sound of my TV.Searched online for a decent pair under £150 and found the edifier r1700bt whch seem to have a decent sound for the price. I am also interested in thees ones at they have bluetooth.Any other good speakers in this price range that I should consider?Also, If I am gong with the edifier r1700bt, thees only have RCA input to pass sound from the TV. I would like to use the wired input form the TV so I can leave the bluetooth connection open so I can connect with an iphone and listen songs from Spotify.My question is, as I only have the RCA input on the speakers, how is best to connect them from the tv? Thees are the options:

RCA to RCAOptical to RCA3.5mm to RCA

Thanks for the help.

If you've got no RCA sockets, use one of these to get audio out - fixed, line-level signal (unaltered by TV volume control)

http://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/8226-out/scart-adaptor/dp/AR71327?st=scart%20adapter
 
If you can afford to stretch just a little, the Q Acoustics BT3 will do everything you want and a bit more.

Bluetooth, Toslink Digital and analogue inputs plus full remote control, of you liik around you can often find them for £200 or less.

Point of order, These are not 'active' speakers though they are often described as such, they are powered passives. Different thing entirely.
 
If you stretch to about 180 pounds and get a set of JBL lsr305s and go headphone socket to the speakers you'd find it hard to beat at the price
 

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