Audiophile equipment is kind of gear towards home owners.

Joel Doxtator so no speakers and bass-box for the "no house owners"?

Unfortunately, I think that's correct. Have the same issue and 'till I move to a forest hut and start terrorising the wildlife from a solar & wind generated electricity attached to my sonic weapons, I think that I'll have to stick to hp's :((((

TheMusicForMasses u might be surprised to view a large peaceful audience of music-loving animals around your cabin

I grew up in apartments, which I hope to never have to inhabit again, mostly for this reason.

If you're smart in how you spend your money, you can have a very nice preamp, power amp, and speaker setup for under $1000. The used market is where it's at.

hartsickdisciple ... yeah ... I been buying high end speakers and amps etc from the secondhand market. There are many in great condition at half or less than half the retail price. 😬 But it’s true, if you want to go the headfi route, you can enjoy a lot for less. I got the Mytek Brooklyn Bridge, that’s about $2,750 (new) and can pair that with a high end headphone of say $2,000 (new) and it would be awesome sounding. That is you wanna splurge. I did not go headfi because I like so hear the sound from speakers coming from up front.

Good speakers gives so much detail and physical sound that headphone never can give... Some games at night headphones are great

@@hartsickdisciple What sites do you buy used equipment from? Thanks.

this guy really just said 1k for speaker set up = mediocre set up

Its just sound to go. He already knows it is not audiophile.

I’ve two sets of those & one is 25 years & older! For the monies, they are very difficult to beat!

I didn't. I got into the habit of putting it on pretty quiet. If other kids wanted a listen of what I had in my walkman (which was pretty rare), they complained they couldn't hear it and wanted the volume turned up. The rule of thumb I use is "If you have to pause your music to hold a conversation, you've got it too loud."

My AKG are gentle to my ears i have more than 10 years listening with them and 0 ear problems

Dang it I am 25 and I think I have already destroyed my hearing because I never listen to songs without full sound both in headphone or home theater.

I think the most dangerous is when you listen in a noisy environment and you crank the volume up. So you end up listening at 88db SPL or something like that 😅

My cheap JBL headphones can emulate the bass feeling on the body.

@@necrodh Your jbl dont even have bass

How do I get that aural tactical synthesis thing?

It's hard to mix at the right volume with headphones too. You can calibrate your monitors and work precisely at 82spl for example, not with headphones.

Welcome to the never ending struggle lol.

Love seeing more Romanians into hi-fi. Numai bine

Most gamers can’t afford to put in a Dolby Atmos system in their game room… If they could they wouldn’t be wearing headphones 🤣

@@wb5mgr They'd still be wearing headphones because you don't have you're damn game sound bleeding into your mic when you're trying to talk.

*Odyssey But with a "z", and with a longer initial "awe" sound than what you have in "Odyssey".

Grado cans are much much better. No comparison. The best in the world.

Good joke Raffie.

@@raffiequler7510 grado build quality is a joke.

@@albertweedsteinthethuggeni7797 That's a lie. Grado has the best build and sound quality. I know that better than anybody.

If you want to properly cross sub-woofers to stereo speakers you are going to need two of them to run in stereo. Otherwise, you will always be trapped between being able to locate the sub and having a thin sounding listening experience. Once you have two sub-woofers you are going to want to volume match them to your floor speakers and then choose a crossover frequency that does not create an interference pattern with your floor speakers. I would also suggest that you do not get a sub-woofer that was designed for home theater use as they tend to be muddy and focus more on air volume moving mass than acoustic accuracy. My suggestion would be to build your own. Audiotechnology drivers and Hypex Sub-woofer plate amps work brilliantly together. I have two Audiotechnology 15E1022510 drivers powered by two Hypex DS8.0's boxed, ported and crossed over at 120Hz. The image blends perfectly.

Joel, I appreciate your comments, but I think you misinterpret my intent. I am not an audiophile. I just wanted to improve the sound of my music, so I decided to add a subwoofer. Using the information I found here in Paul's videos, really helped getting it set up to sound good.

Audiophile is a sliding scale. We all started out just wanting to "improve the sound of our music" a bit. Every improvement leads to more imperfections noticed and more improvements. I'm just trying to save you some money by suggesting the best option right away. I would have saved thousands if I knew what to jump straight to in order to get the best sound possible instead of incrementally increasing my equipment over time making some mistakes along the way.

Joel Doxtator a big yes so much money wasted buying online not knowing what you really get

Okay, Joel, I guess if one classifies anyone who enjoys music to be an audiophile, I fit into that broad category. But, since finding all of the types and styles of music that are available online, even just through KZfaq Red, has made me want to listen to the music of years past, whether it's rock and roll from the 1950's and 1960's, Motown, the Beatles, or even the big band genre from the 1940's. I am not much into Jazz. Also, having grown up during the sixties, and having lived in a major metropolitan area where country music was just for "hicks", today I find I like the country stuff from those same earlier years. It's got Heart. Having added the small subwoofer recently really adds the punch that makes all of those areas of music sound even more classic...sort of "Juke box style", and using Paul's philosophy of setting the sub so you can hear that "oomph", but you can't really tell where it's coming from, gives the added touch I find I like a lot. So, in those terms, I guess I would qualify as an audiophile. And, sure, I tweak things around according to the style of music, or source (it can vary quite a bit from one provider to another), but am I going to invest in a bunch more new equipment....Nada. Thanks for helping/making me sort out my thoughts on this topic. I'm really just a nostalgic, but happy camper with my new toy.

Sometimes this is exactly what I want. For example when the noise level is too high in the office and I need to focus on my own work. In this case headphones help a lot.

I think most people are here because of our dad :D

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My JVC SP-333 speakers cost me $20. Goodwill and Craigslist are your friends here. 100wpc class AB Kenwood amp was $40. Sony SACD player was also $40. I'll take this over your $1000 headphone setup any day. You can FEEL the BASS! Can't do that with headphones!

there are also alot of people that take a MC Donalds hamburger any day over kobe beef, that doesn't mean anything at all, so sory but you have nothing to do with hi-fi, you're just a basshead, no offence!

George Popescu Funny how wrong you are. My favorite bands are Steely Dan, Frank Zappa, Black Sabbath… and goes well into Daft Punk and Portishead. Lately I've been enjoying Bass Mekanik and Bassotronics. However, since my AT VM540ML arrived yesterday, I've been playing a lot of Wilburys, Beatles, and Stones… but go on about how much you know me…

it's a big difference between being a melomane (music lover) and being a audiophile (hi-fi sound lover).

de gustibus non disputandum !

On the other hand, the band does wear headphones when tracking the song in the recording studio... So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But then while some producers use headphones to mix the songs, others use speaker systems like Dunlavy... So confusing!

@@TassieLorenzo That's true, but the best equipment for producing media isn't always the best for playing it back. Nvidia Quadro graphics cards are used for professional graphics work, but people playing the games use Geforce cards. 2 different tools for 2 different purposes.

Car audio...that's hilarious

Snr sits at a whopping 1%

Hi, did you get maybe comparing these to speakers? Asking because I can't afford more audio gear at the moment lol

@@skylordsrebornpvpreplays5795 Hi, I have never owned high quality speakers so I could not tell you how those headphones compare to them. From what various reviewers have said, you would need to pay a lot more for a set of speakers which would match those headphones in quality. But, of course, speakers will always be better for soundstage and the physical impact of music. I personally prefer intimacy and the feeling of being sucked into the recording which is so much better on headphones. Plus my flat's acoustics (and small size) are so bad that it would not make sense to invest in expensive speakers. I use M-Audio monitor speakers with a Wharfedale subwoofer which, except for the fact that they can make my flat shake, are miles behind the details and accuracy of the above headphones. I now use them with a Topping D90 + A90 stack and they are breathtaking with well-recorded music. Even though some of my friends think I am crazy, I can honestly say that I do not regret any of the few thousand $ that I have spent on the above system. It takes me to audio heaven whenever I feel the need to leave Earth for a while. ;-)

@@MistaLova-Lova 👍