My 1979 turntable was the third one I bought. The first was a $100 mistake. This article is what I wish someone had told me before I started.
Someone paid $45,000 for a turntable. That person is not your benchmark.
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Peter Aczel: The man that destroyed audio snake oil
Vintage Audio Addict is a great YT channel that I recommend for all Budget Audiophiles to subscribe to. This video is a dissertation on the work of Peter Aczel. An engineer that lays it out in plain language how audio really works and why “Audiophiles” are wasting their money. I’ve known about Peter for quite some time and his perspective went a long way in shaping my own in regards to audio equipment.
[Question] Looking for the best free local music file player for PC
Hello everyone. I’m on a campaign to move my audio listening closer to nearly all offline. My current quest is to research which are the best options for offline music player on the PC. I have a mix of FLAC and MP3 files, and desire to add more high end music files from physical media in the future. But the main need right now, is to learn what are the best free music players out there. My current knowledge of PC music players worth a try are, WINamp, foobar2000, and VLC. What would you recommend I check out?
KZ Castor Pro are almost good. This bass though… what the hell? What should I try next?
Four headphones down in four weeks. What’s the Quark of today? Ultra cheap, great value, mobile IEM’s.
How to choose the right headphone
Hi, I’m new in the “headphones” world and I usually bought the first cheap option with good reviews on youtube and never really informed myself. My current headphones (Anker Soundcore Q30) are almost dead and I want to make an informed choise about my next one. However I feel like there are a lot of things I know nothing about. For example I read a lot of good things about Sennheiser but the first pari of headphones I saw in my price range (ACCENTUM) have 37mm drivers. My Soundcore Q30 have 40mm drivers and I always thought that “the bigger the better” for the driver. From what I heard, however, the ACCENTUM are consider higher quality than Soundcore Q30. What I’d like to know is: what should I really look for to understand the quality of the headphones? I’d mainly use them to listen to music (some Metal, Punk but sometimes Rap, Classical or movies and videogames OST) in my house or outside (so good ANC is always appreciated).
Ok I’m shopping for a desk appropriate DAC and speaker amp combo that doesn’t break the bank (<~700USD total). There are SO many spec options available I’m a bit stuck in analysis paralysis. Plus what I want to do might be a tough sell in any case so maybe I’ve backed myself into a corner.
Two digital inputs (two pcs, both support usb or toslink optical. One could maybe do ‘headless’ hdmi earc?), plus bluetooth (or usb?) from a mobile device.
Passive speakers (Micca RB42, so needs a bit of oomph to push). Nearfield desktop setup. Plus I’d like the option to switch to headphones. Less special but should be good enough.
On the DAC, It looks like maybe a balanced dac+headphone amp like the newer SMSL or FiiO or Topping? There are a few chip choices to look at? Then extra stuff like R2R, pffb and other electrics?
On the amp, class D (the TI one everyone likes?), I have a little less info here.
This is a topic that at first glance feels like a good AI agent would be ok at - pull in specs and objective measurement and subjective reviews and optimize. But this is not possible. There is far too much slop out there already and it just looks like (Gemini at least where I have some tokens) just gives up super fast.
Where do I go from here? Happy to get recommendations on components to optimize around, directions to start digging.
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