for pc gaming, are home theater speakers better than speakers meant for gaming?

[MeS]

there are alot fo speakers that are supposedly meant for gaming, are home theater speakers better in that field or are they best strictly for watching movies with a tv/home theater?

[ScottK]

Either work. They both reproduce sound accurately. True gamers, however, don't waste time with speakers. They get good headsets.

[sgtsteal]

either work

[pmac366]

Yes because the home speaker system are better quality in most cases. Game speaker systems are usually cheap thats and arent good enough to be called home theater systems.

[JonH]

Home theater speakers are higher fidelity. They are engineered to accuratly reproduce every sound, whether for a game or otherwise. Thats what I use.

[GrumpyMac]

Would you water your lawn with a soda-straw?

Look - computer speakers are designed to give 1 person sitting at a computer surround sound.

For dorm rooms - they can also be used for a small bedroom to let you and one other person watch movies on the computer monitor.

But to fill a living room with sound so a family can watch a movie on a TV and get theater-quality sound - computer speakers just dont have the surface area/power to fill a room with sound.

So one is not 'better' than the other - but they are built with different users or rooms in mind.

[samueld]

of course they are better. Nothing like playing Halo in full surround sound.

[MarkedOne]

I think theyre the same because both is loud,surround and expensive.I have gaming logitech 5.1

[Anime_Cutie]

theater speakers r better thats y ppl go to movies
DUH!