Hi-Fi speakers or Studio Monitors for music listening on my computer? Help!?!?!?

Music from a computer CAN be as good as from anywhere else, but it will not involve MP3's. Hi-Fi speakers will sound better to your ear, studio monitors have a flat frequency response, and require the proper room treatments to effectively reproduce the music flat. A studio monitor in the wrong place will sound worse than almost anything else, with the possible exception of MP3's. Besides that, you won't find a good set of studio monitors for $200, maybe $400 will get you a decent set, but not $200. The first answerer makes good points, but forgets that formats other than MP3 can be played from a computer, high bit and sample rate wav files being about as good as it gets. Ditch the surround sound, play straight 2.1-channel stereo (a sub woofer is a nice addition), and enjoy.

Hi sorry to say any sound out of a computer is rubbish but it is even when MP3 is coded up to 256bits sampling as most is coded at 64 bits sampling at 44khz so why bother with a quality amplifier or hi fi quality speakers. studio quality or studio monitors are vastly superior to the sound out of a computer the sound is not even as good as a cd player to be honest. the real use of studio quality speakers is with a distortion free class a amplifier with a high quality record deck such as a linn son-deck with a moving coil cartridge and playing vynal records to get any real quality. in a proper sound room otherwise it it is a joke to be frankly honest. computers are such noisy things and the mere suggestion of trying to compare music out of the digital nightmare really is a joke.