Best $100 speakers

I need a good pair of speakers for my limited $100 budget. My expectation from them would be,

1. Medium to good quality high range frequency production
2. Good quality mid range frequency (vocal quality if very important to me - for music and movies)
3. Low to medium quality low range frequency (Obviously i can't expect more than that from a $100 speaker)
4. Good stereo imaging
5. Compact size
6. Aux input for my old iRiver H120
7. Should be able to connect to my TV if need be.
8. Headphone jack


After hours of research, i have closed on Logitech Z2300, M-Audio Studiophile 30 and Bose companion 2. Though i don't think Z2300 will make the cut with its competitors, i am going to decide that only after listening to one of them at a store. If one prefers bass over vocal performance, Z2300 is the choice. I am not much after rap, R&B or house as my Last.fm library would tell you and so, the 2.1 Z2300 need not be the one for me.

Z2300 is $85 and the others sell at $99/pair on Amazon and BestBuy and hence technically in my budget. All of them seem to have the audio reproduction characteristics that i am looking at and i am already a little biased towards M-Audio from what i have discovered about them so far.



M-Audio Studiophile 30


Best in the category for its low to mid range reproduction. Most people who bought this felt that this pair produces the complete spectrum accurately.




Logitech Z2300


8" woofer for the beats




Bose Companion2


Famous for its stereo imagining capability


In part 2 of this blog, i'll update my in store experience with these speakers and my decision.