Roland CS-10 & CS-30 Stereo Micro Monitor Speakers

[Great Hierophant]

These Roland speakers were released about 1990 (CS-10) and 1993 (CS-30) to complement its line of LA & GS computer modules.  The key differences between them is that the CS-10 has a single input while the CS-30 has dual inputs and an output.  The CS-10 are rated at 5W, the CS-30 at 7W.  By comparison, a single satellite speaker of my Creative Gigaworks outputs 70W. 

Are they a good fit for the devices they are designed to connect to?  (CM-32L, CM-32P, CM-64, CM-300, CM-500.)  By that I mean do they do justice to the sound they are designed to output. 

Are they comparable, better or worse than other computer speakers sold back in the day (knowing that they were usually not great.)

[apeman]

There were a number of threads on these speakers in the past - search not working?

[mace]

These Roland speakers were released about 1990 (CS-10) and 1993 (CS-30) to complement its line of LA & GS computer modules.  The key differences between them is that the CS-10 has a single input while the CS-30 has dual inputs and an output.  The CS-10 are rated at 5W, the CS-30 at 7W.  By comparison, a single satellite speaker of my Creative Gigaworks outputs 70W. 

Are they a good fit for the devices they are designed to connect to?  (CM-32L, CM-32P, CM-64, CM-300, CM-500.)  By that I mean do they do justice to the sound they are designed to output. 

Are they comparable, better or worse than other computer speakers sold back in the day (knowing that they were usually not great.)

I'm not so sure that a little satellite is capable of 70 watts, I'm pretty sure it's peak power, and not RMS.

Wattages are not very meaningful anyway, because one never uses the full power of an amplifier, normal listening volume is around 1 watt, depending on speaker efficiency.

[BlueMax]

I remember the speaker/wattage discussions of old.  Just because a speaker wastes 250Watts doesn't make it a better/louder/clearer speaker.  It just wastes a ton of electricity because it's cheap junk.

Roland's speakers were top-notch.  Period.  Don't let low wattage fool you.

[Great Hierophant]

These Roland speakers were released about 1990 (CS-10) and 1993 (CS-30) to complement its line of LA & GS computer modules.  The key differences between them is that the CS-10 has a single input while the CS-30 has dual inputs and an output.  The CS-10 are rated at 5W, the CS-30 at 7W.  By comparison, a single satellite speaker of my Creative Gigaworks outputs 70W. 

Are they a good fit for the devices they are designed to connect to?  (CM-32L, CM-32P, CM-64, CM-300, CM-500.)  By that I mean do they do justice to the sound they are designed to output. 

Are they comparable, better or worse than other computer speakers sold back in the day (knowing that they were usually not great.)

I'm not so sure that a little satellite is capable of 70 watts, I'm pretty sure it's peak power, and not RMS.

Wattages are not very meaningful anyway, because one never uses the full power of an amplifier, normal listening volume is around 1 watt, depending on speaker efficiency.

These are the Creative Gigaworks 7.1 S750 speakers.  The satellites are not particularly small or light and they do advertise 70W RMS per channel for each of the seven satellites and 210W RMS for the subwoofer.  When they all go they can shake the walls.

[mace]

Okay then, if it's RMS then it's a different story...


Still, frequency response and SPL are much better specifications to look for, also the frequency response curves are important.

None of the specs have anything significant to say how the speaker sounds tho.