Change of listening experience

[Really Aardvark]

This is weird. For the last few days I've been doing some digital photography and listening via a pair of £20 JBL Duet PC speakers plugged into the headphone socket of my Macbook (iTunes CDs imported at 256k). They are sitting on the windowsill about 4ft from my ears. So not the last, or even the first, word in fidelity. Nevertheless exceedingly enjoyable - and while I write Danny Thompson is ripping it up behind John Martyn.

So it crossed my mind - if I moved the electronics next to my desk (Dac64, Pre3, Kat6550), what speakers are good near-field - LS3/5a is my immediate thought or maybe studio monitors. (Haven't been in a studio for years - thinking about it I haven't picked up my bass in anger for 5 years!!)

What do others think? Is this likely to work at all?

[alnewall]

Best to just try it. Less chance of the room messing up what you hear.

I recently had a change round and now sit 10' from the speakers which were previously about 15' away.
I realise now that some information is lost, when listening to speakers at a distance.

[pre65]

I made some computer monitor speakers using a pair of 4.5" Sony car speakers and was bowled over by how good they were.

I listen about 2ft away from them. The cabinets were made as a woodworking exercise using scrap wood. Front and back was 19mm MDF, sides were 3/4" chipboard and top/bottom bits of an old dressing table.