Do you consider yourself an audiophile?

[teuchter]

If you want a rock solid speaker stand then I don't think those are the right kinds of legs.

However, it most likely doesn't matter in the slightest in reality. You could probably put them on a wobbly plastic stand and detect no difference in sound at all in a blind test.

This is written by someone who has previously used concrete blocks as speaker stands and who also recognises the placebo effect as real.

 

[pbsmooth]

You probably want to get your ears checked if you couldn't tell the difference.

 

[existentialist]

I’d just stick the new ones on top of the old ones like this
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I think this could have implications for the soundscape...

 

[existentialist]

Seeing as we're talking about sensible audio stuff for a bit, can anyone recommend one of those small budget Chinese amps for a set of speakers I've got spare? Doesn't need to do Bluetooth as I've got a spare Chromecast Audio I'm going to use to extend to another room.

One is doing my living room sound, and it's not half bad.

One snag: if it's powered off, it doesn't come back on without pressing the power button on the front. Which is a pain for me, as it's hidden in a cupboard.

 

[teuchter]

You probably want to get your ears checked if you couldn't tell the difference.

Have you ever checked your ears by doing blind listening tests with different speaker stands?

 

[existentialist]

Have you ever checked your ears by doing blind listening tests with different speaker stands?

It is my most treasured Friday night ritual.

 

[pesh]

I think this could have implications for the soundscape...

You can offset that with a 20 grand kettle lead into the amp

 

[rutabowa]

Seeing as we're talking about sensible audio stuff for a bit, can anyone recommend one of those small budget Chinese amps for a set of speakers I've got spare? Doesn't need to do Bluetooth as I've got a spare Chromecast Audio I'm going to use to extend to another room.

I bought one of these from this seller for my pc, it is really good and still working years later:

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it has an output for a sub too

it is tiny but surprisingly loud. fine for a medium size room in a house.

does not come with power lead but I had one from an old router that fitted. (needs to be 12v dc)

 

[danski]

I was thinking there was a big thread on those amps but I think this is all there is

In praise of the Class T/Tripath amp.

I've just had to replace the amp in my bedroom hi-fi set up, after the gnarly old Goodmans box farted its' last fart. I remembered the "Sonic Impact" T-amps getting a rave review from several posters a couple of years back, so just randomly searched ebay for "t-amps" and came up with plenty of...

www.urban75.net

 

[rutabowa]

theres a lot in this thread about them

The building your own portable soundsystem thread

I've been inspired by the boominator and I'm thinking about putting a T-Amp based system into a pram. Unfortunately I'm completely new to this kind of thing so I've got a bunch of questions. We'll start with Impedance. Right, so I've got the basic idea here. if you stick two 8Ω speakers on...

www.urban75.net

 

[MrCurry]

I remember once selling a pair of speaker stands from a prominent audio brand on eBay. They were in fact of a type that needed filling with sand to weight them down and obviously I removed the sand before shipping, to reduce the delivery cost for the buyer.

It was a few days after he received them I got a message asking where I’d bought my sand from as he was having trouble finding the right spec. Turns out he‘d read some home hifi magazine website a review of them and acoustically rated sand had been recommended as essential for proper performance (no doubt was being sold through the ads in the print version of the same magazine).

That tells me all I need to know about how the home hifi / home cinema industry sells to “audiophiles”.

 

[teuchter]

Seeing as we're talking about sensible audio stuff for a bit, can anyone recommend one of those small budget Chinese amps for a set of speakers I've got spare? Doesn't need to do Bluetooth as I've got a spare Chromecast Audio I'm going to use to extend to another room.

I have one of these

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It's fine sound-wise. It has some slightly annoying behaviours, including a kind of cut-out that sometimes happen if I restart the thing that feeds its input, then you have to wait a few minutes for it to reset itself. And the volume control has become a bit erratic.

 

[pbsmooth]

Have you ever checked your ears by doing blind listening tests with different speaker stands?

More times than you might imagine.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

As long as a stand is suitably heavy and either has pointy spiky feet or soft and squishy feet, it’s fairly safe to say the audible effect of one brand verses another is zero.

 

[pbsmooth]

As long as a stand is suitably heavy and either has pointy spiky feet or soft and squishy feet, it’s fairly safe to say the audible effect of one brand verses another is zero.

Arguable but certainly the point I was making to teuchter when he said something solid would be the same as "wobbly plastic stands".

 

[danski]

This thread needs more mockery

 

[moody]

If you want a rock solid speaker stand then I don't think those are the right kinds of legs.

However, it most likely doesn't matter in the slightest in reality. You could probably put them on a wobbly plastic stand and detect no difference in sound at all in a blind test.

This is written by someone who has previously used concrete blocks as speaker stands and who also recognises the placebo effect as real.

yeah, had a think last night. my idea maybe isn't the best as the stands with those hairpin legs will be very tall and very top heavy, prone to being knocked over.

I am now thinking of using a single pole like this mounted on to a solid base at least the size of the top shelf part.

the tube could be loaded with sand too.

 

[teuchter]

Arguable but certainly the point I was making to teuchter when he said something solid would be the same as "wobbly plastic stands".

Well, I said it's probable that there'd be no audible difference in the sound. That's for moody who is making the stands for relatively small speakers in a domestic setting which aren't really dealing with low frequencies. There was some hyperbole in saying wobbly plastic stands. Of course if they were really wobbly stands that had bits in them that would resonate then maybe it would be a problem.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I always thought that the spiky feet were as much about not annoying the neighbours with frequencies through floor boards as with how the cabinets would sound.

 

[moody]

almost completed my setup, just the mixer to drop in. was thinking of an analogue mixer but will be using either traktor or serato so I guess that defeats the idea of going analogue. so a decent 2 channel mixer. I'm thinking of a djm 450.

equipment so far,

2x technics 1210 mk2
2x kef q35.2
2 x xtz 99.26
2x xtz passive crossovers
1 arcam alpha 10

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

almost completed my setup, just the mixer to drop in. was thinking of an analogue mixer but will be using either traktor or serato so I guess that defeats the idea of going analogue. so a decent 2 channel mixer. I'm thinking of a djm 450.

equipment so far,

2x technics 1210 mk2
2x kef q35.2
2 x xtz 99.26
2x xtz passive crossovers
1 arcam alpha 10

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Nice, but where are your cable elevators? Have you burned in all the cables? Replaced your power cables with ones woven from unicorn tears?

No room on this thread if not I’m afraid.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Yeah, let’s get back to being proper audiophiles again.

 

[petee]

Yeah, let’s get back to being proper audiophiles again.

right, here y'go. a system to fit any budget, as long as you have access to fort knox.

https://iear.nl/docs/prijslijst/mcintosh.pdf

they do look good tho'.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

right, here y'go. a system to fit any budget, as long as you have access to fort knox.

https://iear.nl/docs/prijslijst/mcintosh.pdf

they do look good tho'.

If you have to ask you can't afford it?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

right, here y'go. a system to fit any budget, as long as you have access to fort knox.

https://iear.nl/docs/prijslijst/mcintosh.pdf

they do look good tho'.

£60,000 for a 200W mono amplifier. I’ll take two then.

 

[moody]

started a huge bun fight over on a fb group asking whether to get a digital mixer or an analogue one with external souncard.

will be using traktor/serato so i thought it's pointless to get an analogue mixer if i'm running it through a soundcard.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I don’t trust anyone who feels mastered music needs further colouring with their choice of valve amp. Digital will suffice.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I suppose it might glue everything together better in a DJ mix - I’ve never been a DJ though so fuck knows

 

[Magnus McGinty]

A master master bus lol

 

[pbsmooth]

You should get some isolation platforms for your turntables. Don't want any bad vibrations in the mix.