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90% of people are very happy with sub-$150 speakers/headphones for their computer. And are very unlikely to drop more than $500 for the whole living room. What's the point of marginal gains when the neighbor's kids are shouting and the AC is on?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm pulling this number out of my bum but I will be very surprised if someone can prove I'm wrong: about 100% of people are very happy with sub-30€ speakers/headphones for their computer (there's a lot of people with computers and speakers, and the models that seem to run out the quickest are the 29,90€ sets on sale). 30-60 freedom dollars is probably the top selling price point for new 2.0 & 2.1 speakers by several orders of magnitude. But people seem to be willing to drop more on headphones so I left that a little more open.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:07
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qirex posted:Someone should sell LSD as an "audio enhancement supplement" for like $200 a pop. Hey now, that might actually work. And if it the product actually works, then the user might gently caress up and make his set sound worse instead of feeling that sweet sweet placebo. quote:1 out of 5 stars Speleothing fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Aug 18, 2017 13:09
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polyester concept posted:I can't find it now, but there's an interview with Wayne Coyne about The Flaming Lips' album Zaireeka. It was released on four CDs, each of which were supposed to be played simultaneously on four separate CD players with varying adjustments made to the volume and panning (at the listener's whim). He said something about discovering that CD players were not all that precise as they thought, because while the band was demoing the album they would press play simultaneously, but by the end the players were all noticeably out of sync with each other by a few seconds. I am guessing the time span was across the entire album, not just one song though. I remember this experiment being mentioned in the liner notes for the surround sound mix of Yoshimi. But not the specifics of why it failed.
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Oct 10, 2017 20:32
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Is your current set broken? No? Then don't buy a new one. I really don't get how people buy new audio/visual systems more than once every 5-10 years.
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Oct 28, 2017 21:20
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Even 5 years seems too often, unless you were just upgrading one piece of your system.
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Oct 29, 2017 02:49
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All that's missing is the lovely framed movie posters. Suburban tract housing sure does suck the life out of you. I bet doing some wall treatments would have done more for your "soundscape" than blowing thousands of dollars on the ugliest speakers you could find.
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Dec 17, 2017 04:05
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metallicaeg posted:I don't really think those speakers are ugly, though I would have gone without a glossy finish and can't dream of a scenario where two gently caress-off subs are needed over one gently caress-off sub. They still look better than whatever the painfully 90's speakers were there before. I respect the squalor more than the boring suburbia
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Dec 17, 2017 04:20
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I'm not saying you need to spring for hardwood or leave things bare, but you could go for a carpet color that isn't bland and actually paint the walls {white, or} a dark enough color for a theater. And disguise those speakers and woofers because 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Good news if you're looking to buy a Range Rover in the future, they're putting in hi res audio capabilities into their cars! Y'know cars, those perfect listening environments that are super quiet so you can really make use of that extra dynamic range afforded by 24bit audio! Arguably, a car at rest could be a better listening environment than a living room. The speaker locations relative to the seat are precisely known, there's plenty of soft materials on the walls, and the degree of soundproofing that keeps out road noise also blocks background. Of course that's compared to a typical home setup and not someone who cares about Hi Res Audio in the first place.
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