Hi, does anyone think I should have my 340 watt stereo panasonic system on my system? I have the cables and the system works well and the room shakes with bass. is it recommended?

It depends. You shouldn't put the speakers near to the PC (are they built in?). The magnets in the speakers are not great to have around hard disks, as magnets can wipe certain components. If it is just the system, and they are no speakers close to the pc I can't see a problem there. I do know one person who reckons a pair a headphones on top of his computer wiped his harddisk.

I do know one person who reckons a pair a headphones on top of his computer wiped his harddisk.

123456, I dont know who told you that, but its not the truth. Yes, you can wipe the data off of a floppy disk with a moderately powerful magnet, but a Darddisc?... I think not. To remove the data from a harddrive you'd need a magnet so powerful that it could practically suck the iron from your blood. I once set a speaker on top of a harddrive, and it was perfectly fine.

Also, I wouldnt worry about messing up any components (ie. the monitor) with your speakers. Most of the time Multimedia speakers (especally ones that are made to be near the tele), have a layer of protection to keep them from interfearing with anything. Heh, i just put my pc speakers on top of my monitor, and I saw no discolouration.


-The Bumstedman

Maybe not with an IDE drive but with a SCSI, all it takes is a pair of hedphones to be placed on top of the hardisk and its gone, and yes that is from experience

Your original question is a bit ambiguous. The preposition on could be taken to mean "position," i.e., "on top of."

Or, it could also be taken to mean "position" with an idiomatic usage, i.e., "hooked up to."

With this in mind, would you clarify a bit more exactly what you are attempting to accomplish? ;)

I use shielded cables between my pc's line out and my 5.1 entertainment center's inputs and which the subwoofer (with amplifiers within) is 10 feet away from the pc tower. Sounds great! I only needed to adapt an 1/8th inch stereo jack to left and right RCA plugs.

You only need to make sure everything is connected through surge suppressors even if it is 2 separate ones.

Speaker magnets and coils versus magnetic data, the data will lose every time. As long as you maintain at least a foot distance from any of them, you'll be fine.

Good point WYZMN....the question is a bit confusing.
I do think it was meant the way FTT took it though, and to that I say: Sure, why not? :p
(A little side note...doubt very much it's 340w RMS/Channel...don't mind me, a little pet peeve). ;)

Oh, and concerning erasing data with a magnet, (at least on a Hard drive), turns out to score a 4 out of 5 on the "Bogus-O-Meter" (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116572,00.asp) :D
(At least according to "Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate").
"In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."

Hhhmm, anyone got a Scsi H/d and a pair of headphones?

Hmm, maybe I should try putting an old HDD on top of the magnet of a 12" sub I have laying around at a friends house and see what it does, this magnet is BIG and HEAVY, try like 10" around and prolly 5+ pounds (ill get a pic and the measuremnents), hehehehehehehe

Well, I can only speak from experience, even if someones opinion or advice is laughable

Thanks. The speakers are away from the CPU and the monitor is LCD.