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Originally Posted by vanblah
There ARE small speakers that sound great. Size of the cone has more to do with loudness (volume) as opposed to frequency. It does take a larger cone to push bass (lower) frequencies for obvious reasons (bass waves are larger for one) ... but if the speaker is not rated to handle anything below 40Hz then obviously you're not going to get anything below that.
What you really want to pay attention to is what frequency range a speaker is rated for ... a sub should go down to at least 20Hz. There are subs that go deeper.
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You also have to pay attention to the box. You'll oftentimes see a computer subwoofer that's about the size of a toaster rated for 20Hz or lower, but it still sounds like crap because there's no air volume to resonate the sound. The reason my non-subwoofer speakers sound better than subwoofer setups is because they've got excellent resonance. I recall the old days when subs would double as coffee tables. Everyone wanted smaller but, man have we lost some sound by doing it.
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Then again, you're probably hooking it all up to a 1/8" mini-jack ... so you're degrading the signal right there. The best speakers in the world won't help you unless you have a decent signal.
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But the best speakers in the world will sound better than a cheap little piece of crap, even if they're only outputting static
And many computers have gotten around the miniplug problem. Mine outputs optical as well. But even on miniplug you can get some pretty decent quality sound - heck I know a lot of radio stations that record all their sound onto sony minidisc players - - -so now you have ungrounded miniplug hooked up to a format that compresses the crap out of the audio, and it's still broadcast quality.