I've had a pair of Altec Lansing ACS41 speakers that came with a Gateway years ago. They sounded decent, playing music off the net. Those old speakers started to crackle at certain sound level positions, and can't be fixed by me. I always wondered if you could go from the headphone jack on the pc, to an import jack on an old stereo that has RCA inputs. Seems like they didn't want you to know. Maybe the young tech writers don't have older stereo receivers, or maybe speaker manufacturers didn't want you to know. Anyway, put the 3.5 mm rca jack in the pc headphone socket, and the smaller ones in rca style CD or AUX or TAPE inputs on the receiver. Now you can use your stereo bookshelf speakers, and not need a 2nd set for your pc or laptop. They say the connectors are gold plated. These don't have a gold look. Its more bright silver with maybe a slight gold hue. Maybe it is 24 k gold. They don't look nearly as gold as their pictures. Should have bought it years ago. I didn't rate sound quality. That depends on your source, and some things coming off the net have lousy sound. Maybe compressed signals, like cable TV.
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]