Heya, another noob in need for advice. 
I'm currently looking for new active desktop speakers and kinda lost. When searching for speakers on reddit, I got the information that all speakers with an optical input have a built-in amp. Is that true or can't you say that in general? Or do all active speakers have an amplifier built in, regardless of opt in or not? Also, would I even need that in my very basic desktop scenario? If it doesn't make too big of a difference, I don't want to narrow down the options I can get even more.
I want to connect them directly to my mainboard, no extra soundcards, no additional stuff like an extra subwoofer (I'd like to keep it 2.0 at least for now) or like external amps or anything, preferably also no adapters.
I don't want or need much and don't want to spend very much on speakers, already streched what I'd pay to 200€ - I was ok with my 30€ speakers from creative, as you can see I got pretty low needs. I know 200€ isn't much, but getting something decent when not being too much of an audiophile is hopefully possible.
I want a balanced sound with no distortion in low or higher volume (not too high, I don't like loud noise) and not too bass heavy, I like bass but not to the point where you can feel it.
Since I have no idea what to look out for, I can't really search for what to get - tests and reviews and top lists all over the place with some recommending Logitech and others bashing on it, it's all just confusing. I tried getting info but I only understand half of it.
I was about to get the Edifier MR4 but now I'm not sure because of the missing optical. I got a bunch of cables here so maybe the optical input would be good?
I read the review here on them and they look good, I guess? heard flat = good (very basic)? Maybe some Edifier R1850DB for the opt in instead (money for the bluetooth option would be wasted for me though)? I'll probably wait until Black Friday in hope to get some great deals, but in advance I'd like to have one or two options I can get when nothing else gets in my price range. The first link leads to my reddit post, got some info on my mainboard and what I listen to there as well as an image of my desk if needed. Don't want to clutter this post here even more by copy pasting.
Hope this was the correct place to put my questions in.
I'm currently looking for new active desktop speakers and kinda lost. When searching for speakers on reddit, I got the information that all speakers with an optical input have a built-in amp. Is that true or can't you say that in general? Or do all active speakers have an amplifier built in, regardless of opt in or not? Also, would I even need that in my very basic desktop scenario? If it doesn't make too big of a difference, I don't want to narrow down the options I can get even more.
I want to connect them directly to my mainboard, no extra soundcards, no additional stuff like an extra subwoofer (I'd like to keep it 2.0 at least for now) or like external amps or anything, preferably also no adapters.
I don't want or need much and don't want to spend very much on speakers, already streched what I'd pay to 200€ - I was ok with my 30€ speakers from creative, as you can see I got pretty low needs. I know 200€ isn't much, but getting something decent when not being too much of an audiophile is hopefully possible.
I want a balanced sound with no distortion in low or higher volume (not too high, I don't like loud noise) and not too bass heavy, I like bass but not to the point where you can feel it.
Since I have no idea what to look out for, I can't really search for what to get - tests and reviews and top lists all over the place with some recommending Logitech and others bashing on it, it's all just confusing. I tried getting info but I only understand half of it.
I was about to get the Edifier MR4 but now I'm not sure because of the missing optical. I got a bunch of cables here so maybe the optical input would be good?
I read the review here on them and they look good, I guess? heard flat = good (very basic)? Maybe some Edifier R1850DB for the opt in instead (money for the bluetooth option would be wasted for me though)? I'll probably wait until Black Friday in hope to get some great deals, but in advance I'd like to have one or two options I can get when nothing else gets in my price range. The first link leads to my reddit post, got some info on my mainboard and what I listen to there as well as an image of my desk if needed. Don't want to clutter this post here even more by copy pasting.
Hope this was the correct place to put my questions in.
