This is my first post here. Idk if this deserves a post in this sub. I just bought these speakers, and they are an incredible upgrade from my older Bluetooth speakers. I've never heard so much detail before in a speaker system before. It's like listening to my favorite songs for the first time.

Ik I am a noob in this sub, but I can't fathom how any speaker system would be significantly better than this. Without sparking any outrage, I genuinely want to understand how audiophile speakers are better than a set of $20 speakers.

P.S: I am a broke college student, so I can't afford high-end speakers. I'm just curious.

Apologies if this isn't quite the right phrasing. I have Qobuz and Roon but honestly don't have the equipment to drive them particularly well, but I do enjoy it on my PC when I'm working and love how Roon aggregates all information about the song/artist I'm listening to

Does anyone know of an app that does a similar job for music streaming on mobile when I'm out and about? I know Tidal/Qobuz etc do have song credits, but nothing of the scope and depth of Roon. Anyone know of anything? I know there's Music Smart for Apple but I was hoping for something cross platform as I have both Apple and Android.

Any suggestions?

Hello. Noob here.

A lot of floor standing speakers seems to follow some kind of tweeter + 3-5 midsize cones format. What is the benefit of this versus one bigger 8 or 12 inch woofer?

Hey hope this is the right place to ask this, but I think I have a standing wave in my new apartment/music studio, somewhere around 40-60Hz. It's really annoying because I turn down my Yamaha HS8's room control, in hopes to not bug my neighbors with the low end - I can survive with a lighter low end, as long as I take the time to get used to it but as I walk closer to the corners of my room behind my desk and chair, I can hear a big boomy bass resonance - one so loud that I feel like my neighbors could probably hear it. I have *quote* bass traps stacked 4 tall in the corners behind the speakers because I figured that the neighbors behind that wall were the closest to the noise, but I'm not sure if that is actually the best place to put them. I can raise the Room Control on the speakers, but then that doesn't really fix my problem because now even though I can hear the bass a LITTLE BIT better I know that those hotspots around my house are gonna be absolutely bumping. For context, my place was built around 2019 I think, has some exposed concrete patches and some patches that are drywall (about 1/2 and 1/2 of each), the ceilings are 10 ft and the main box of the apt is 25 ft wide by 12ft long. I say it like that because my speakers have to be in the orientation that's parallel with the 12 ft walls. Any advice would be really appreciated. PS I am thinking about a sub as that could possibly remedy my problem, but I don't really want to have a problem in the first place. These speakers are dope and expensive so I want to get the most out of them. Thanks for reading.

Finally acquired a lovely vintage LP12. Equipped with a freshly recapped Valhalla PSU, new motor, belt, bushings, springs etc and a lovely Linn ittok LV II sporting a Linn Adikt V3. It's in as perfect a condition as one can get for the era. It's pretty great but I can't help but feel a bit disappointed. I have a Thorens TD-150 sporting an Akito MK1 and Goldring 1042, which, if honest, appears to be better engineered and, as a setup, performed better than the Sondek. I also have a custom, beautifully built TT by Arb turntables sporting an Akito mk2/Goldring 1042. Again, it sounds better, at least to my ears. The Sondek itself is lovely it's great, and if I was coming from a project debut or Rega Rp1 or something of that standard, it would be a felt difference but if you spend £500 or so on a decent turntable you might not really see much benefit. Anyone else had a similar experience.

I asked this about 5 years ago and 5 years before that on other Reddit subs, but I figure this is actually the best place to ask, as the members here would more likely want to respect song order fidelity and other factors I'm looking for.

I would like to find a music app where I can add granular arguments. Essentially, I would love to dump all of my songs into it then do things like the following, for example:

• Whenever x song is randomly played, always play y song
• never play z music prior to 11am
• only play b music between Dec1 and Dec31
• always play at least 1 song by f,g,h artists for every 20 songs played
• for every 100 songs in my library, every month park 10 for 2 months, then add them back in
• when I add in a new album or artist, give it 1.5x the chance of being played randomly for 2 months

The responses I get when I ask about this are "why would you ever want to do this" and "no one would ever take the time to set that up" which is likely false as I certainly would. Maybe the app would have a wizard that could guide someone through some of the setup.

One of my friends has been telling me for a decade he would make this app, to no avail. I was wondering if anyone has seen anything like it?

Thanks for any help.

Sometimes when the end credit music rolls I stay and listen to how great it all sounds in the theater's audio system. Shang- Chi's end credits music by Anderson .Paak. Guardians of the Galaxy part 1 had Marvin Gaye's Ain't no mountain. And more. They sounded incredible and were worth staying just for that alone.

I wonder if anyone here has done critical listening with their own music on an IMAX system.

I was looking at the Kanto ORA and ORA4 speakers and how they'd fit on my desk, and the measurements seem like the ORA4 would be a bit tight of a fit with my monitor screens if placed upright. However, if I placed them on their sides, they'd have better margins.

So, I was wondering if it would make a noticeable difference with this setup: Speakers that are within arm's reach with a woofer and tweeter normally vertically stacked, instead being next to each other horizontally. My current desktop speakers only have one driver each, so I can't just experiment with them.

I'm just not sure if it would affect the staging for such close speakers. I want to say that all of the marketing and demos use them upright for a reason, but the ORA even has a picture advertising them on their side (which could just be marketing disregarding some knowledge I'm unaware of for the sake of a picture).

I'm probably overthinking it, but have a feeling it'll be either "They were engineered to be upright, and the sound staging will be off if they're sideways" or "It doesn't really matter, even when the speakers are so close to you"

I don't really find much information online. Maybe someone here can tell me more about them.

Table: Technics SL-1500C(AT VM95ML) Receiver: 1979 JVC JR-S401 Outside Speakers: Klipsch Forte II’s (Sequential serials, Crites Gold crossovers) Inside speakers: Bose 301 series IV(for quiet night tv watching)

I had a weird pair of Yamaha NS-A1236’s. Very typical cheap 90’s towers, which I’m assuming were used in some sort of home theater setup. Typical where they were all bass and high end tweeter sound with zero mid range detail. Fast forward to this weekend where I snagged the Klipsch. They are as clean as clean gets. Original owner had em. And he had them since 1989, with children and somehow they are this clean. I got em for $900 bucks. It’s crazy how much I’ve been missing out on soundstage detail and dynamics. My first sound test was with Adele’s Skyfall and Snarky Puppy’s Sylvia, both on wax. And just wow. Absolutely crazy just how much life this brings to my room. I was nervous at first with my amp being a solid state deal from the late 70s but the old JVC continues to keep trucking and impressing. Next upgrade for me will probably be a nice tube preamp. Also open to suggestions!

Not sure the right subreddit for this, but this seems like it's probably full of very knowledgeable folk.

I'm redoing a garage, concrete floor, drywall walls with an upper "floor" into sort of a carriage house / office / mixed use space. There will be a "living room" here in sort of a tight space, with a couch up against an exterior wall, and then a TV floating on a wall/staircase in the middle of the space. I'm just starting to think about how I should ideally wire up the A/V runs - and what all I might want to use the space for, which is where my question comes in.

Right now, I'm not sure how much audio equipment I want to put in, but at least a 5.1 system with a receiver. Not sure if the receiver goes near the TV (limited space), or maybe in a cabinet near the couch? It's clear though that I sort of need to choose a central location to do all my runs from - and I guess the couch area seems the most logical.

What has me hesitating though, is I might also want to do some audio production there. Nothing super complicated, but like, maybe a computer with an audio interface goes near the TV? Maybe I should also run some XLR between there and the couch area, so I don't just have cables going across the floor all the time? Maybe a SPDIF, MIDI, couple 1/4th inch jacks? I'm really just not sure yet.

I guess my question is - are there products that either A. are built to wall mount a wide variety of jacks / runs like this that I should be looking at, or B. that encapsulate multi-stream stuff (SPDIF, MIDI, whatever) and send it over a single connection - cat6, or fiber optics or something - hopefully with as close to 0 encoding/decoding latency as possible? Or am I best off just running analogue cables for analogue, and individual digital cables for digital?

Any words of wisdom or whatever are welcome, I'm admittedly about 12 years behind the curve on what's current in the A/V world - but feel like surely this is a problem a lot of people face, and feel silly trying to reinvent the wheel.

Anyone knows the brand or model of these speakers? I was just curious after watching the film.

I figured that since you guys like loud stuff, I thought you guys might know a thing or two when it comes to sound proofing. I just wanted to ask how effective are these because they don’t look like your typical acoustic panels. I want to get them for their looks but if their not as or somewhat effective I won’t even bother with them.

Doing a renovation and working on setting up a new soundsystem in this weirdly shaped room. Windows are yellow, tv mounted with a cabinet underneath is blue, kitchen bench/ table green.

We currently have two speakers connected by aux to Bluetooth audio adapter, but we’re upgrading with the goal of making the soundsystem better and enabling vinyl turntable connectivity. Realistically looking at a 2.1 system at this stage.

Could anyone help with the best positioning of the speakers for the room, I know it won’t be completely optimal.

Hi, I had a search but I couldn't find much on this topic. I'm getting a pair of 660s2 and a Qudelix 5k, just wondering which hifi streaming service is best for discovering new music. I currently use YouTube music which is okay and I tested out Spotify in the past, but neither really had an option to "play songs by and similar to your favourite artists."

Is there a hifi streaming service which does this?

And just in general, which streaming service would you recommend. Currently looking at Qobuz, Amazon, and Tidal. I might have to get a trial of each one but if I could get your opinions first that would be great. Thanks!

Edit: oh and one more thing, I heard Tidal doesn't always have the music people are looking for. Is Qobuz better in that regard? Thanks again!

Spent way too much time reading reviews on the internet and decided to just get my butt to the nearest speaker store to listen to some things.

Ended up with these Linn Ninkas (looks may have played a bit role, but they are also a big upgrade from the Sonos I was using before) and a Dennon PMA 600NE.

My girlfriend said “now you can finally stop doom scrolling about speakers”…but I think it’s quite the opposite :)

Audiolab 6000A to drive my Q Acoustics Concept 50 and Nurpime IDA 8 for my Quadral Platinum 4 Towers.

I'm planning on spending around 1000-1250 on new audio. Mostly for listing music (streaming from my phone) and as audio for my TV.

What do you think of these? Or do you have other thaughts/tips for getting a good setup?