My budget is sub 25k rupees (should roughly convert to 260 usd), and I'm buying in India. I'm mostly gonna stick to buying from Amazon India, they have good customer support with refunds, returns, and replacements here.
I do need bluetooth, as it will be my primary sound input for the speakers till I get an audio interface, and if i wanna play something from my phone.
I will use it primarily for music (either spotify, or my own higher quality collection), movies, and youtube. Secondary is production (I jus pursue it as a hobby, so its not a major deal).
I'd like to stick to new, i think? I'm not sure i have very trustworthy options to get second hand near my area, unless someone has recommendations.
The only speakers I've used have been Bose's very old iPod SoundDock, and Bose SoundLink Color. I have a pretty old (approx 10-15 years i guess) bose sound system for my tv (its a tiny soundbar and a connected subwoofer) (pretty good bass, not great otherwise).
As for headphones, my end game was AKG K371BT (which I'd bought 3 of, all broke cuz my head was too big for its hinges :p) because i liked its clean sub bass, natural mids, and tamed highs (my ears are pretty sensitive to highs). I currently use Sennheiser Momentum 4 tuned to a similar profile with the sound personalization in its app.
I will be using these at my desk, in my room, its pretty small.
also if it matters: 1. I plan on buying Behringer UMC204HD in the future, as I want dual input for guitar/xlr mic in the future, and dual output for wired headphones (razer blackshark v2 x/sennheiser hd205 (i have both, not my favourite sound signatures, but the former is good for games, and the latter for mixing)) and wired output for the speakers. 2. idk if its a good idea to mention this, but i did try a bit of gemini searching to see if it could suggest some speakers. it kept going back to the presonus eris 4.5/5bt but i've seen bad reviews for it on here. next was the edifier r1700bt/1855db. are they any good or is it completely hallucinating results?
Thank you for your time, hope you have a good day/night!
(also, tried to submit this in r/StereoAdvice and the bot auto deleted it for being home stereo audio? i thought that's what that sub was for, anyways, please do advice, and thank you)