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Monoprice DT-3 50-Watt Multimedia Desktop Powered Speakers

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Monoprice has Monoprice DT-3 50-Watt Multimedia Desktop Powered Speakers on sale for $41.64 when you apply code EXTRA30 in checkout. Shipping is free.

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  • The Monoprice DT‑3 Powered Multimedia Desktop Speakers deliver high‑quality sound in a compact form factor. Featuring a 50‑watt Class AB amplifier driving 3.5" polypropylene woofers and 0.75" silk dome tweeters, the DT‑3 is engineered to deliver fantastic sound for near‑field listening. The DT‑3 features a 3.5mm stereo input jack and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the front panel for easy access, plus a stereo pair of RCA jacks and a stereo pair of 1/4" balanced TRS jacks on the rear panel, allowing you to connect mobile, consumer, and professional audio equipment. These speakers are the perfect complement to any home, office, gaming, or entertainment setup.

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  • About this Deal:
    • These Monoprice DT-3 50-Watt Multimedia Desktop Powered Speakers are priced $43.35 lower (51% savings) than the list price.
    • Comes with a 1-year warranty.
    • See the forum thread for additional discussion of this deal.

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Monoprice has Monoprice DT-3 50-Watt Multimedia Desktop Powered Speakers on sale for $41.64 when you apply code EXTRA30 in checkout. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter TattyBear for finding this deal.

Product Description:
  • The Monoprice DT‑3 Powered Multimedia Desktop Speakers deliver high‑quality sound in a compact form factor. Featuring a 50‑watt Class AB amplifier driving 3.5" polypropylene woofers and 0.75" silk dome tweeters, the DT‑3 is engineered to deliver fantastic sound for near‑field listening. The DT‑3 features a 3.5mm stereo input jack and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the front panel for easy access, plus a stereo pair of RCA jacks and a stereo pair of 1/4" balanced TRS jacks on the rear panel, allowing you to connect mobile, consumer, and professional audio equipment. These speakers are the perfect complement to any home, office, gaming, or entertainment setup.

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Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • These Monoprice DT-3 50-Watt Multimedia Desktop Powered Speakers are priced $43.35 lower (51% savings) than the list price.
    • Comes with a 1-year warranty.
    • See the forum thread for additional discussion of this deal.

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Selman
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Ignorant statements like this occur so often that I'll just copy and paste this from five days ago:

" it doesn't make much sense to get to caught up in wattage when talking about different speakers. You've got to consider the sensitivity of the speakers and how they respond to power. A speaker rated 90dB sensitivity will produce that ear damaging 90dB at 1 meter off a single watt. A lot of the best speakers and amplifiers in the world might only be running 10W, but they are sensitive speakers with massive old school class A amps. A speaker with +3dB sensitivity would make twice as much sound energy off the same wattage, and at +10dB sensitivity the speaker would sound twice as loud.

All of that is to say that wattage specs don't matter as much as most people think, and certainly it's not a good way to compare speakers without a lot more information."
GTinMIA
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Thanks. They're for a 9 y/o playing minecraft and roblox, so I don't need some 2.1 or 5.1 THX. Grabbed them. Thanks OP. Repped +
Selman
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It's very easy to run them with a sub.

If you are using them with a computer, then you would just use the subwoofer output on the motherboard or soundcard.

If you are using it off speaker cable, then you'd just get a subwoofer with speaker level inputs.

If you are using them off RCA's, then you just get a y-splitter and send one feed to the sub.

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Dec 11, 2023
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MrShawn
Dec 11, 2023
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Quote from GTinMIA :
Anyone have these that can comment on quality? Looking for a Christmas present for a young gamer.
Be careful of reviews these days. I'd say half the stuff I got from here or even amazon was nowhere near as 6/5 stars as many say. Tho on the other end I did find some high quality stuff that was no name. On my own. Which if I recall didn't really have reviews to match how good they were. I bought some stuff from mono I found on here an as long as I don't lay my guitars down on it too hard ; it doesn't fall apart. No one mentioned the part about you might have to buy a new guitar or bass if you use it.
Dec 11, 2023
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MrShawn
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Quote from cscamp20 :
50 watts is more than enough. A quality amp even tube amps with 10 watts of power is more than adequate for listening to music. My NAD 50 watt amp is more powerful than my Onkyo 100 Watt receiver. It's not quantity, it's the quality.
I would also factor into cheap items claiming to be 10,000 watt amps. An possibility of them actually burning thru that much electricity at a very low rate of efficiency. I thought everyone used to say monoprice wasn't that great after Andrew Jones took off to become a real brand name elsewhere?
Dec 11, 2023
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MrShawn
Dec 11, 2023
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Quote from rowlodge :
my presonus speakers stopped working, yes they look like a copy except they cost a $100 also had extra bass connection and connection for guitar plus base and treble so a lot of stuff missing. i dont know if i really care as long as they sound half descent.
I need them for music gear. Will it handle a bass guitar an backing tracks? Are they loud enough to drown out room noise, like guitar an bass strings clanging?
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e_honda
Dec 11, 2023
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Quote from GeoffreyK24 :
Congrats. Something tells me you are measuring the cone of the tweeter and not the tweeter itself or have some kind of diy mid-range auto tweeter installed. No speaker manufacturer who has a clue what they are doing would add a mid range tweeter in tower speakers. The entire point of bookshelf or floor standing speakers is to add the space for dedicated woofers capable of creating sounds that a tweeter is not designed for. It would be pointless to have a 3" mid range tweeter when you have dedicated woofers that do the job better. In no universe is 3" the, "usual size of tweeters on a tower speakers" like the other person commented.
Yeah, I'd be curious to know the make and model of the speaker he has, but nobody is putting out 3" dome tweeters, be it big or small speaker companies. There are obviously air motion and ribbon tweeters that are closer to this size, but these aren't domes and they work differently.

There definitely are bigger dome mid-range drivers that "look" like tweeters, but only a few companies are employing them. An example would be Wharfedale's Evo series:

https://www.wharfedaleusa.com/col...ng-speaker

In the past, Dynaudio also had models that used this, but I don't believe they have any in their current lineup. And even Wharfedale is only calling there's a 2" midrange, though it looks a bit bigger than that. And remember, it's a mid-range driver. Making a true tweeter of this size would be completely absurd. Nobody is doing that.
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GeoffreyK24
Dec 11, 2023
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Quote from sunup :
I own pair of Jensen CS315. These floor speakers are 220 watts peak and 80 continuous. both speakers contain a 15" subwoofer, 5"mid range speaker, and a 3" ferrofluid filled dynamic cone tweeter.

mass production floor speakers made by a reputable company in the 90's.
"These floor speakers are 220 watts peak and 80 continuous. both speakers contain a 15" subwoofer, 5"mid range speaker, and a 3" ferrofluid filled dynamic cone tweeter."

You literally copied and pasted a seller's description from their Reverb listing (complete with authentic grammatical errors!). What a clown move that you couldn't even speak to a product you claim to own with the specs in your own words.

Link: https://reverb.com/item/72785514-...atural?bk=

Also, those are loudspeakers, not your typical tower/floorstanding speaker. They are wildly inefficient at low volumes and that 15" isn't an actual subwoofer either. Those 3" and 5" tweeters have cones and are mid range tweeters. There is almost zero parallel to draw between the product listed and yours. Your weak attempt to call me out as if I had said something false couldn't have been more wrong. Next time, I encourage you to actually educate yourself about a subject rather than react and then fall back on a copy/paste of someone else's description of a product in a weak attempt to stay relevant. You are wrong. The original comment about 3.5" tweeters being the, "usual size" on towers was also wrong. Learn and move on
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GeoffreyK24
Dec 11, 2023
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Quote from e_honda :
Yeah, I'd be curious to know the make and model of the speaker he has, but nobody is putting out 3" dome tweeters, be it big or small speaker companies. There are obviously air motion and ribbon tweeters that are closer to this size, but these aren't domes and they work differently.

There definitely are bigger dome mid-range drivers that "look" like tweeters, but only a few companies are employing them. An example would be Wharfedale's Evo series:

https://www.wharfedaleusa.com/col...ng-speaker

In the past, Dynaudio also had models that used this, but I don't believe they have any in their current lineup. And even Wharfedale is only calling there's a 2" midrange, though it looks a bit bigger than that. And remember, it's a mid-range driver. Making a true tweeter of this size would be completely absurd. Nobody is doing that.
Thank you. I'm not sure what is so hard for folks to understand about that but I guess it takes all kinds. Maybe they will learn something
Dec 13, 2023
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rowlodge
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Quote from MrShawn :
I need them for music gear. Will it handle a bass guitar an backing tracks? Are they loud enough to drown out room noise, like guitar an bass strings clanging?
id say no, just regular guitar unless you want distortion

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