need help finding a basic set of speakers

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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.
 

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how about these, shipping is to US only though.
New Creative Labs 51MF1635AA003 Creative A60 2.0 Magnetically-Shielded Speaker System 20 Khz 4 W by Creative Labs - Shop Online for Electronics in Australia

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No headphone jack. For me that's a must because I often use headphones at night/early morning and it's great to have the port right there in front of me with the volume control.

Several of the Logitech speakers have headphone jacks, but in a move of pure stupidity, it's passthrough only and the volume knob doesn't control the headphone volume. So Logitech is out. Edifier has the same issue.
 

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I've seen several inexpensive PC speaker sets at Wal-Mart. Even a 2.1 under $40.
 

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I've seen several inexpensive PC speaker sets at Wal-Mart. Even a 2.1 under $40.

Yeah,

But none of them have magnetic shielding and a headphone jack that can be controlled with the volume knob and no blinding LED light. Their BlackWeb speakers are not shielded. Logitech is out, as I said above, because the volume knob on the Logitech speakers does not control the headphone volume.
 

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Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
custom build
OS
Windows 7 32bit Home Premium
CPU
Intel Core I7 920 Bloomfield
Motherboard
Asus P6T Deluxe v1
Memory
3 GB Corsair DDR3 (3x1GB)
Graphics Card(s)
NVidia GTX 570 (1 GB RAM)
Sound Card
on board
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell P2314H
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
Western Digital Black 1TB (main OS)
PSU
XION Supernova XON-800R14N 800W
Case
Antec 1200
Cooling
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro Rev. 2
Keyboard
AZIO Prism
Mouse
Logitech G700S
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Verizon FiOS 85/85
Antivirus
Avast
Browser
Firefox/Chrome
Other Info
SansDigital rr622 RocketRaid (with non-raid Driver)
Renesas USB 3.0 card
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