Audiophile Thread. Post your fuckin' rigs!

[LazarusOwenhart]

Bang & Olufson 5500

Bang & Olufson Form 2i phones, (Merijn Hos special editions)

Music never sounded so good.

 

[Megahertz]

Shit, I'm no audiophile, more like a producer, so all I own are a pair of ATH-M50s. I'll be saving up after I graduate to get some monitor speakers soon though, not sure what yet.

Those cans don't cup over your ears? Don't audiophiles like noise-canceling ones more, Or are the speakers larger than they look?

Your stuff looks dope, though. I'd love to try it ;_;

 

[Glaive]

Oh! It's a topic I can actually contribute to, producer here as well.

Synth: Access Virus TI Polar 2
Mixer: Behringer NOX202 2-channel
Monitors: M-Audio AV40s

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CDJs: Numark 400s
Midi Keyboard: 3 octave Akai MPK
Headphones: Sennheiser HD-205s
Earbuds: Panasonic RPHJE120K

Bang & Olufson Form 2i phones, (Merijn Hos special editions)

Music never sounded so good.

Huh, I'm really surprised you like these. I've never found a single pair of "on-ear" headphones that were decent. Always over-ear. On-ear doesn't form a tight enough seal around the ear and I'll always notice white noise seep in or any noise really for that matter. Granted if I'm sitting in the studio that isn't going to be an issue, but at that point why not just switch to monitors. But hey more power to you if they serve your own purpose.

The Senheiser HS-205s I have would barely be considered mid-tier, but they are over-ear and they are actually BALANCED, unlike all the shitty bass boosted products that people seem to like nowadays. Granted if you are only listening and never producing there isn't too much of a reason to get balanced headphones, but they can drown out a lot of mid and high range if the genres you listen to are heavier on that.

Let me defend my earbud choice though. The Panasonic RPHJE120K, literally scrapping the bottom of the barrel in terms of price. 8 dollars a pop. However for that price you are getting the same response range, impedance, and isolation you'd get from any of the decent quality 20-40 ish range earbuds. I used to buy 40 dollar ones but I use earbuds so much outside the studio that they were guaranteed to break every other month or so. So with the 8 buck Panasonics, I can afford to cycle through them KNOWING they are bound to break eventually from how much I use them.

Shit, I'm no audiophile, more like a producer, so all I own are a pair of ATH-M50s. I'll be saving up after I graduate to get some monitor speakers soon though, not sure what yet.

Do NOT NOT NOT go for the same model of monitors I got. In fact avoid M-Audio completely. I've heard other models and they suffer the same issue with bass response that mine do. They WILL register and play super low Hz like 18-20, but the response from the entire 100-300Hz band is laughable. I'll crank my mixer up to the highest the bass boost knob goes and the response is still less than my friends KRKs. If you want an entry level monitor recommendation I cannot highly enough suggest the Rokkit KRKs. They don't have to be the latest and biggest model either. Go for the cheaper ones which will only run you about 200 or 250ish. Mine were only 140 and I deeply regret it. The rest of my gear I'm pretty proud of but I cut myself so short on monitors.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Shit, I'm no audiophile, more like a producer, so all I own are a pair of ATH-M50s. I'll be saving up after I graduate to get some monitor speakers soon though, not sure what yet.

Those cans don't cup over your ears? Don't audiophiles like noise-canceling ones more, Or are the speakers larger than they look?

Your stuff looks dope, though. I'd love to try it ;_;

I don't like cup style earphones. B&O do make them, but I find them uncomfortable. The sound quality from them is just amazing though, especially for headphones that were designed in 1985 and have been continuously sold ever since. (B&O like to point out they're the worlds highest selling pair of headphones not included with another product.)

 

[Megahertz]

Synth: Access Virus TI Polar 2

I'm jelly. How are you liking it? I'm firmly rooted in softsynths for now but I was considering investing in a Blofeld (desktop) or an ultranova (flawed as it may be- only reason why is that it has a built-in audio interface) as my first hardware synth. I'm annoyed with the blofeld though because of it's old-fashioned MIDI ports which not a lot of MIDI keyboards carry anymore. :/

The VIrus ti2 is a versatile synth, is it not? I like having everything under one hood. Does it have modular capabilities?

Panasonic RPHJE120K,

Thanks for mentioning these, I had been dropping 20 bucks on skullcandy buds once every 6 months for a while, Ink'd sounds okay but the mid-highs tend to get piercing now and then. 8 dollars and it sounds better? yes pleeeease.

. If you want an entry level monitor recommendation I cannot highly enough suggest the Rokkit KRKs. They don't have to be the latest and biggest model either. Go for the cheaper ones which will only run you about 200 or 250ish.

Thanks again for the rec! I didn't know the KRK's went for ~200, this widens my pool of options considerably. Even though those yellow speakers get poked fun of in a lot of producer circles for being "SO DANK 4 MY WUBZ M808" i can definately see why they're popular.

The sound quality from them is just amazing though, especially for headphones that were designed in 1985 and have been continuously sold ever since

I'm so used to cup headphones that anything else feels weird, but that's really impressive! I had never heard of them up until now though, and thats because my neck of the woods mostly focuses on monitor stuff as opposed to hi-fi. Still, 1985 and they hold up today, pretty neat.

 

[Carlos Thin]

Got these bad boys free with my iPod.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Got these bad boys free with my iPod.

I've always loved how Apple seem to have gone out of the way to MAKE them clip.

 

[trip2themoon]

My Kenwood A58, topped with a Technics MK2 SL1210 turntable. I bought it in 1996 for £850 and it has Dolby 5.1 surround. Almost 20 years old and it's still going strong. I have another MK2 1210 turntable with a Technics SUZ1 amplifier and a mixer but unfortunately I don't have the room ATM to hook up both my decks for DJing.

 

[Glaive]

I'm jelly. How are you liking it? I'm firmly rooted in softsynths for now but I was considering investing in a Blofeld (desktop) or an ultranova (flawed as it may be- only reason why is that it has a built-in audio interface) as my first hardware synth. I'm annoyed with the blofeld though because of it's old-fashioned MIDI ports which not a lot of MIDI keyboards carry anymore. :/

The VIrus ti2 is a versatile synth, is it not? I like having everything under one hood. Does it have modular capabilities?

The Virus' sound engine is not modular in terms of placement of the building blocks freely. It has what is called "character module" which is an effect applied to the sum of oscillators. So in a way it is, but it's not applying it to every individual oscillator. Just all of them combined.

Here:



I wouldn't trade this for any other synth. That being said it's way beyond my skill level and I'm nowhere near where I should be to maximize it's potential. But for the genre I listen to it's the staple go-to piece of hardware for all the big name producers. Biggest impulse buy of my life.

For better quality reference:
(Around five instances of Virus leads layered together)

Also about 90% done with Virus: