Trying out the New Speakers

I set up my new speakers last night and listened to a few things. It sounds cliché, but I never knew what I was missing. Pink Floyd, Indigo Girls, Nirvana, Violent Femmes; in every song I listened to I heard details I'd never heard before. In Porcelain, the third track on Moby's album Play, I heard faint static. I thought it might be noise on the line and paused the CD to listen, but it stopped. It's actually on the track. I can hear vocals more clearly than I ever have. I hear background sounds in Enya's and Jethro Tull's music that had always blended into the background. I can distinctly hear where in the left-to-right soundstage the instruments have been mixed, and sometimes it sounds like a singer's voice is *in my head*.

These were unquestionably worth the money. Now I need to figure out where to place them for proper sound while I'm sitting on the couch, and then learn how to dial them in with my equalizer for that spot. Right now, they're sitting on each side of my computer desk, angled toward my chair. They might live there for a little while, but the goal is to be able to lie back on something soft, close my eyes, and listen.