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need help finding a basic set of speakers
I'm going slowly insane trying to find replacement speakers. I'm not looking for anything fancy by any means - just plain 2.0 speakers. And I'd like to keep the price under $40 - I know for that price they won't win any awards but I have a small apartment and basic speakers is all I need for my desk - I use my main home theatre speakers when I want quality. But there are a few things that are very important to me:
- must be magnetically shielded.
- no bright LED facing me head-on to blind me at night. A dim LED is fine or an LED on the right side of the right speaker, or no LED.
- strongly prefer a regular plug with the power supply integrated into the speakers, rather than a power brick that takes up 2 plugs just for speakers.
- must have headphone jack.
- volume knob must control headphones when plugged in. It's amazing how many speakers have a headphone jack, but the volume knob doesn't control the headphone volume!
That's all I need, but every speaker I look at either isn't magnetically shielded, or has an insanely bright LED. I know I can put tape over the LED, but I'd rather not have to do that and make my speakers look ghetto. Do these speakers exist? My old speakers had a wired remote volume control which was nice because the LED was on that and I could just move it out of my sight, but it's no longer available without spending $50 on Ebay and I wouldn't buy them again anyways due to the wired remote volume coming loose with very little use.