audio-tech

[lean grove]

it really depends on how much money uo want to spend and what you think the weakest part of your system is

[craggy pollen]

well the weakest is definitely my receiver, so that's probably where im going to go first

[winter bronze]

Would recommend getting an audio processor

[haughty girder]

what speakers are they?

or do you know their frequency response

[lean grove]

What's wrong with it?

https://tenor.com/view/tom-and-jerry-point-pointing-going-inside-gif-25709356

[stuck garden]

i'm pre strapped for cash rn, so would a getting an nt1 5th gen (using usb output), or getting a nt1 not 5th gen)/ai bundle (using xlr output) be better? don't have an audio interface rn so usb output will have to do otherwise

[lean grove]

If you're strapped for cash you don't need to spend $250 on a mic.

An audio interface would be good for upgrading the future and has a lot of utility

But depending on what you're doing, there's good enough options for under $100 easy

[untold otter]

general consensus on audio technica r70x? what are the pros and cons and should i pad swap?

like are they worth the price p much, and do they require more power than a budget audio interface can provide

[warm scarab]

what do you mean

[cobalt gyro]

fellas i require a basic audio interface i can slap down on my desk or below it, i recently got moondrop chu 2s and the cable is short as hell, too short to use comfortably with my pc and i need something to plug them into that's closer to me

plugging them into my monitor just makes them really quiet and destroys the audio quality so that's not an option

i don't know where to even start looking

[warm scarab]

how about an extension cable lol

[cobalt gyro]

still has the issue of being attached to my pc which i'm not comfortable with considering my previous experiences with headphone cables and pcs

(accidentally yanked my pc down onto my desk cause it got tangled up on my chair and when i turned around it choke slammed it into the desk)

and now that i have a glass side panel i wanna avoid that as much as i can

also it's just more comfortable

[warm scarab]

just get a longer cable

you can't possibly yank anything if your cable is long enough

its an iem, use the 50$ you will spend on the interface on new iems instead

[stark mantle]

I'm looking at buying quality bookshelf speakers on the second market to use with my PC on my desk. I will also be getting a pre-amp, and I already have an external USB soundcard with RCA out. I just have no idea where to begin for the speakers themselves. Second hand markets are full of listings, but I have no idea which are good (value) and which are not. I've only used cheap-ish Logitech so far. Anyone have any resources to get me started?

[warm scarab]

why are you getting a pre amp

[stark mantle]

Isn't that necessary when using bookshelf speakers?

I'm new to all of this

[warm scarab]

yes and no

[stark mantle]

depends on the speakers?

[warm scarab]

there are types of speakers, actives and passives, actives have amps in them

passives depend on amps however preamp is a part of the amp circuitry, generally you have integrated amps that are basically AIO, and then you have preamps that connect to receiver amps

there are lots of uses for preamps but for this context it would needlessly stress your budget, just buy an integrated amp if you want passives, given you don't find some amazing second hand pre amp deals

[stark mantle]

Let me rephrase then : I will also buy a preamp if necessary

[warm scarab]

what sort of budget do you have?

[unique wind]

it's a shame that emotiva discontinued the airmotiv b1+ because it was an easy passive speaker recommendation

[warm scarab]

I have no idea what that is

jbl305 and 530 gang

[stark mantle]

Well that's another thing, I'm not entirely sure. I'm thinking €250 for both (again, second hand), but I don't know if that's the price range where if you just go a little higher you can get something much better.

[warm scarab]

see if you can grab some jbl 305 speakers

[stark mantle]

okay thanks

[warm scarab]

actives so no need for an amp

[blazing rock]

ive had some logitech gpro x headphones for a long time, and always used the headphones mic for vc's with my friends on discord, it always worked fine, but at some point it just randomly stopped working completely, no sound at all, didnt work on other devices too, today i bought a replacement for it but it doesnt work either, did i just get unlucky and the replacement is broken, or maybe the mic is not the issue ???

[scarlet wing]

Any deals on a 3.1 or better soundbar under $300 for a TV?
Reddit is all over the place with what r/soundbar recommends.

[unique wind]

is the Samsung HW-Q60C available under $300 for you? im seeing $250

[scarlet wing]

Yeah it is, $248 on amazon too

Time to upgrade from my optical port cheapo vizio

[unique wind]

nice, that's probably your best option then

[scarlet wing]

Good to know, I'll keep an eye on it. I'm just getting frustrated with mine so far as I'll have to unplug it for like 2 minutes sometimes from power and plug it back in. Vizio is no bueno

[haughty girder]

it's ok FWIW, but I'd take either the HD600 over it

[topaz swift]

Hello, I know next to nothing abt mics but I wanna studio in my garage for my band, our budget is probably abt 400 dollars, looking for some drum mics, mics for guitars, and a vocal mic

[haughty girder]

Do you have furniture in the garage

because the echoes inside of a room like that will be the death of the audio quality

[untold otter]

dont like the clamp force on hd 6x0 series

[haughty girder]

you're supposed to stretch them out

[untold otter]

yeah but still

[haughty girder]

you can put em on a box for a bit

it'll stretch out and improve comfort by a lott

[untold otter]

also

narrow staging

staging is a meme ik but i like it

[haughty girder]

Well you see,

Headphone staging is almost entirely dependant on how far the drivers are from ur head

if it's not an HD800 with the drivers right up against the earcup, it's not gonna be much better

[untold otter]

wouldn't that mean then i'd have to get thicker pads to get better staging?

[haughty girder]

Pads change the frequency response quite dramatically

[untold otter]

yeah

[haughty girder]

so theoretically yes, but it'd affect the headphone in other ways

usually in a bad way

[untold otter]

i have to ask then

[topaz swift]

Yes

[untold otter]

what makes the hd600 more appealing than the r70x then in your opinion

[topaz swift]

I’m planning on soundproofing it

[haughty girder]

Not soundproof, sound treat it. but to do it properly will cost thousands for a moderate sized room, even more for a large room

[topaz swift]

It’s a whole garage

[haughty girder]

which is my concern

[topaz swift]

And I don’t have that money lol

[haughty girder]

This

[untold otter]

well damn

[haughty girder]

If you're getting an R70x I'd recommend at LEAST a basic amp of some sort

[untold otter]

i mean i AM upgrading my audio solution and getting new headphones along with em

[haughty girder]

HD600 has a timbre that I like (or I'm familiar to at least), but given the planar discussions I don't think that's a valid point

[haughty girder]

If an amp like at least a Magni is in that upgrade then R70x will be pretty good

[untold otter]

Yup, Magni + Modi

[haughty girder]

Actually

Don't get the modi

what's your interface

[untold otter]

Komplete Audio 1 @haughty girder

[haughty girder]

oh that one

it's solid

RCA only output right

[untold otter]

yuh

it's been fucking up tho

[haughty girder]

I haven't used (or seen) one since 2021 tbh

Oh

[untold otter]

yeah i got mine late 2021 and it's just starting to die on me

[haughty girder]

anyway get a new interface with a clean output (julian krause has some great reviews that also measure the outputs) and use the magni with that

honestly

Modi IMO is just a dongle in a fancy box

[untold otter]

what would you suggest personally?

at any budget tbh

[haughty girder]

I've been out of the loop for a while now, so I'm not sure what's good

[untold otter]

hmm

[haughty girder]

When I kept up with hardware, the Motu M2 was the most recommended interface for being all around pretty good

I'd imagine it's a similar story today

[untold otter]

sounds about right

[haughty girder]

at home I use an AIr192|4 because of its top dial and I didn't want to pay for the SSL2

[untold otter]

valid

[untold otter]

so if i'm downsizing my setup then shouldn't i get an rca to 3.5mm jack adapter and get a type-c dongle

and just connect my magni to that?

or is that just stupid

[haughty girder]

nono

use the back balanced out

RCA to balanced 1/4"

like this

[untold otter]

rca isn't balanced

[haughty girder]

but shorter

yea

that's fine

in this case it's fine*

[untold otter]

what is

[haughty girder]

You just won't get the benefits of using a balanced connection

RCA to balanced 1/4"

and if you decide to go Motu M2 you can just use the RCA on the interface itself

tho most 2in 2out interfaces just come with balanced 1/4" without the rca

[untold otter]

does magni even support balanced?

i see no mention of it on the store page

[haughty girder]

nope

Magni runs RCA

[untold otter]

unless you're talking about the motu

[haughty girder]

interface is the motu

amp is the.... amp

[untold otter]

in which case i honestly couldn't care less abt balanced

[haughty girder]

You normally don't want to go from balanced to unbalanced after amplification

joining grounds on a higher power output can have issues in certain scenarios

but DACs and interface Line out are very low power

They are meant to have an amp after it

so it'll be fine

[untold otter]

shouldn't be a problem if i'm not running a balanced cable though right

[haughty girder]

the magni can't accept balanced cable

it's RCA only

[untold otter]

bleh

okay

do bear with me i am quite ill and tired

so if i say anything brainless it's either i'm dumb or my illness

[haughty girder]

nah dw about it

I'm a little busy rn so I'll get back to you when I have the chance actually

[untold otter]

alr

do you mind if we talk more in dms so we don't clog up this channel or?

[haughty girder]

Sorry I don't do DMs, and this channel is generally not that active so it's fine

[warm scarab]

i mean this is the reason the channel exists

[weak kraken]

my ultralite mk5 always had issues with my mac if i stopped playing audio and then started playing audio again within about 3 to 6 seconds, but now it's starting to stutter in the middle of audio playback

filed a support ticket but i would like a second opinion too if y'all have any idea

[stark mantle]

is JBL LSR305 a different one?

I found a pair second hand for €150

[warm scarab]

nah

it works

[stark mantle]

oh but it's only pickup as it's almost 5kg per :(

[stuck garden]

is sm58/m track solo a good combo for a budget zoom audio setup?

[unborn gale]

literally just get a 720p webcam from logitech or something

if you're only using it for zoom

it'll have both a camera and mic that's will max out zoom's quality

[stuck garden]

mb i meant also for discord calls haha

[unborn gale]

I personally still use my webcam as my mic even for discord, but I guess wait for someone else to reply

[cobalt gyro]

i mean to be fair i just need a jack port away from my pc that i can just tape to the underside to my desk that doesn't look like garbage i highly doubt that'll cost me 50 bucks

one that doesn't obliterate audio quality

and half the ones i found either have no housing or are way too robust for what i need

[haughty girder]

I wouldn't bother

XM8500 + pop filter and a better interface

[stuck garden]

what interface would you recc then

[haughty girder]

depends on what you need

clean outputs? best inputs? something that just works?

if it's the last one, m track solo is a solid choice still then

and get a mic arm

[stuck garden]

i would love a clean output

any recs in that department?

[shut parcel]

anyone here use/used apple airpods pro, and had the plastic shell part hit their ear's antitragus and cause pain? (for reference, this is the antitragus)

[haughty girder]

do you need a good headphone jack too

or just need good main output

[stuck garden]

just main output

[haughty girder]

are you ok with going used

or do you prefer new

Motu M2 is my automatic recommendation as it does most things at least decently

but that's probably outside of your budget new

if it was used you may be able to get a good deal on it

the runner up would be the arturia minifuse 1/2, it's decent and does everything that the Scarlett solo/2i2 (3rd gen) does but better and cheaper

[granite summit]

no

[shut parcel]

okay

[granite summit]

why?

[shut parcel]

well i had airpods pro 2nd gen and i had that problem with prolonged usage; i assume it's due to my raised antitragus
i really want to use them though, every aspect of them other than the dull pain is great.
i was wondering if anyone shared my experience and if they got over it/it got better

[wooden dust]

Does anyone of you guys have the ElectroVoice RE-20 microphone?

[untold otter]

i thought the drivers/software were kinda yucky

[molten lotus]

You recommend FiFine?

[nova wagon]

Last time I checked on the mic interface market it was the Scarlett series that has shit drivers

[untold otter]

Those also

[molten lotus]

What microphone should I get?

FiFine?

[fickle ruin]

Anyone recommend a good pair of wired over-ear headphones between £100 and £150?

[nova wagon]

Akg k361/k371
JBL tune 710bt used in wired mode

[fickle ruin]

Do they use a 2.5mm headphone jack?

[nova wagon]

No they didnt

Why 2.5mm specifically?

[fickle ruin]

So I can use them with my laptop, tablet, etc

[nova wagon]

I thought they use 3.5mm jack no?

[fickle ruin]

Oh yea, my bad. Its 3.5mm, I mixed them up

[nova wagon]

Then yes all of them use 3.5mm jack

[fickle ruin]

How about the akg k702? I currently have the sennheiser hd 400s

[nova wagon]

An option for open back, although I heard that it's pretty bright

How much is the hd560s?

[fickle ruin]

Pretty bright?

[fickle ruin]

£179.99

[nova wagon]

The headphone is more emphasis on the treble region, and it doesn't have a lot of bass quantity

[tawdry gale]

not as bright as beyer

[proven oracle]

I was wondering, is the steelseries arctis nova pro wireless better or the arctis pro wireless?

[nova wagon]

uhh thats the same headphone twice

[warm scarab]

steelseries arctis nova pro wireless

tough call tho

[lusty ridge]

What subwoofer do you guys recommend for Audioengine A2+? (I'm currently looking at Edifier T5)

[lean grove]

Maybe a rythmik f12 or a svs pb2000

[weak rapids]

Bruh thats the same headphone

[unique wind]

weak

dream bigger

[lean grove]

I'm listening

[lusty ridge]

Oh and my budget is around US200

[unique wind]

https://www.starkesound.com/detail.html?id=35

[lusty ridge]

Gah dayum

[unique wind]

any preference on its size and color?

[haughty girder]

at te same time it's also the cheapest interface worth considering

its preamps and driver performance is far better than anything cheaper

ie umc22 and um2

which don't even have a proper asio driver

[untold otter]

good point

[proven oracle]

Arctis nova pro wireless or arctis pro wireless

didnt notice i wrote nova twice

[proven oracle]

So i ment arctis nova pro wireless or arctis pro wireless

[nova wagon]

well its gonna be the nova pro wireless obviously
direct replacement of the arctis pro
but audeze maxwell might be more bang for your buck

[proven oracle]

Alr, well, its also for gaming, idk how well audeze maxwell perform for games

Lemme look into them tho

[weak rapids]

Nova

Non nova has an audible buzz

[proven oracle]

Oh, gtk ty

[nova wagon]

not as good as the nova pro
but still miles ahead of many headsets

[proven oracle]

Im more looking for a gaming headset, got airpods pro 2 for other stuff

[nova wagon]

yea the maxwell is a gaming headset

saying the nova pro is better in games is really spltting hair at this point

and like yes the nova pro is better, 1 i dont think you can notice the differences and 2 personally i dont think its worth the extra 70 usd for the nova pro

although the dac being a charging station is neat

buut do you really game long enough to find that useful tho

man the 2 sides of a coin

[proven oracle]

So basically both r almost equally as good almost, it comes down to the extra stuff

[nova wagon]

yea

out of interests, whats your previous headphone that you used for gaming?

[proven oracle]

Logitech g935 but theyre breaking down

[nova wagon]

yea, going to either the maxwell or the nova pro would be a massive improvement
at the same time, your ear is not trained enough to make out the differences between the 2

i reckon

[proven oracle]

Alr

Ill have to look at what i need in the futures then xD

[proven oracle]

Ty for ur help btw 🙂

[nova wagon]

np

[proven oracle]

May i ask, just for gaming sound alone, is audeze still better in the audio?

w spatial audio and evrything

[lean grove]

Nova pro is tuned terribly tho

[nova wagon]

from the perspective of me, i think the maxwell is better in "audio"
their sound profile, technical capabilities
but apparently their sound cue positioning and accuracy is not as good as the nova pro

[proven oracle]

Alright

[nova wagon]

again, we are splitting hair at this point
reviewer brain as they said

[proven oracle]

I mean. I like steelseries dac

[nova wagon]

its a gimmick for me excluding the charging station for the removable, replacable battery

[proven oracle]

Ik xD

It doesnt rlly do anything beside make things easier

Quality like its still bt the hs

[nova wagon]

its still 2.4ghz

also the steelseries bloatware is ASSS

[proven oracle]

Hmm

[nova wagon]

https://youtu.be/vXRrUfV7s7Q?si=oqpUuN5bIU_Nv96X&t=222

[lean grove]

Buy a headphone from a company that actually specializes in audio

[serene surge]

i have the arctis nova pro wireless, i do not have any of the issues he described in that video, my headset had a random restart issue but that's because I haven't update the firmware, after a firmware update it's fixed. that being said a lot of steelseries mice and keyboards are outdated and overpriced, their customer support was terrible from my personal experience. but if you just want to play games, their headsets are great. mic tho very bad

[untold otter]

utterly braindead windows user here, is there any way i can use linux to back up / export all of my songs from a mac-formatted ipod classic 7th gen?

like are there any distros that natively support the file system or if i need to get a certain software package

[ember pilot]

any recommendations for good bluetooth speakers? Budget around $100-200 and i'd like it to be durable.

[river pine]

best headset (including good mic) for under £100, asking for a friend

[lean grove]

Ue or JBL are the two brands to consider .

Ue boom is solid

[clear sedge]

1more bluetooth speakers are surprisingly good for their size and price. They've come down massively in price, but you can pair 2 of them together for a stereo set of bluetooth speakers. Would recommend buying 2 at their current amazon price of 30 bucks a pop, they do a great job of filling a room, or putting them on either side of you for a closer, quality stereo setup. I've been rocking my set for nearly 4 years now with no issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N7dKe7GvmM

[lean grove]

There's a concept on speaker design called Hoffman's iron law. It basically says that the smaller the speaker, the less loud or the less bass it will have. And that speaker is TINY.

A speaker that small I would only recommend to someone who specifically needs a small speaker. Otherwise I don't see a reason not to spend more money and get something nicer. Especially when there's the budget to do so

[jagged badge]

Is there a quality diffrence between these 2 types of inputs? And why are there 2 types of inputs? (Image is just to show the 2 inputs)

[lean grove]

No. They're different because the left one (RCA) is used for consumer audio and the right one (Dual mono TS) is used for professional audio gear.

But they should offer the same exact quality.

The dual mono TS might be a bit more durable and harder to yank out tho.

[jagged badge]

Okay thanks.

Kinda weird usage of those cables tho

[lean grove]

Well it's a result of wanting to use pro gear with consumer gear

[full fossil]

Any recommendations for eq for the wh-1000xm5s?
I like more of a voice clarity and bass

I tried tinkering myself but it didn't really work out

[lusty ridge]

Size doesn’t matter. Prefer in black. And somewhat available in Australia since I live there 😂

[warm scarab]

I didn't realize I was looking at LTT for a second and went what the fuck reading that message

this must be the most suggestive way of discussing subwoofers I have seen

[solid dirge]

Anyone know about the Moondrop Space Travel TWS?

[nova wagon]

Looks promising based on graphs, no idea how they actually sound

[solid dirge]

They look really impressive for the price, wonder what the compromises are aside from a lid..?

[nova wagon]

Prob sub par anc

Like anc to tick off the box, not good anc kinda thing

[lean grove]

Profit margins and build probably.

Tws earbuds aren't actually that expensive

[solid dirge]

Thats fair

[blazing magnet]

What’s the best wireless gaming headset for PC?

[placid tundra]

Audeze maxwell

[tawdry gale]

Maxwell

[fervent schooner]

need a good headset that has good sound quality max $300

[tawdry gale]

maxwell

[fervent schooner]

is it better than a wired one

[tawdry gale]

yes

wired closed backs headsets in ur budget are tuned quite horribly

[fervent schooner]

does it only have usb 3 dongle?

[tawdry gale]

yes

u can get an adaptor if u need to

[warm scarab]

well he didn't say closed back

[full fossil]

Aren't the Turtle Stealth pro better for gaming

[warm scarab]

lol

lmao even

[tawdry gale]

bruh

[fervent schooner]

is it good for games like fortnite and cod

[tawdry gale]

yes

[tawdry gale]

can u do openback?

leaks sound, no isolation but better imaging

and soundstage

[warm scarab]

not necessarily better imaging but yeah overall generally better

[fervent schooner]

openback makes the sound leak out rigt?

[tawdry gale]

yes

[fervent schooner]

i dont mind either

[blazing magnet]

What’s a Maxwell

[fervent schooner]

a wireless headset

i think ill get the maxwell

[tawdry gale]

audeze maxwell

[fervent schooner]

do you know a lighter one?

[tawdry gale]

openback ones

pc38x

[fervent schooner]

is the 58x better?

[tawdry gale]

I thought u needed mic

58x not good

[tawdry gale]

if u have 300 usd, get r70x

[fervent schooner]

i use my playstation mic atm

its for a birthday present

my aunt asked me what i wanted

then she said dont make it too expensive

but idk what her definition of too expensive is

i think the budget may be

$200

[tawdry gale]

then hd560s

[fervent schooner]

whats the weight

[tawdry gale]

240g

[fervent schooner]

alr

think ill get this

and i juist found out that the aunt i am asking the gift from just bought a 15 pro💀

[tawdry gale]

for u? nice

[fervent schooner]

nah

she got herself a 15 pro

[tawdry gale]

could have sold it for better audio

[fervent schooner]

idk why she updraged

she had a 13 pro max

[tawdry gale]

personally for music, I prefer 6xx

because 6xx is tonally better

but hd560s has larger soundstage, which I dont really care about

[warm scarab]

not worth it for 300$ tbh

you can get it second hand for like around 170$ though

which is worth imo

[tawdry gale]

dw I dont even like r70x

[warm scarab]

I like it but 300$ is too much for what it does

[loud stump]

can anyone recommend me some good speakers for around 130 - 180 usd?

[lean grove]

Check out options from edifier

[stark mantle]

What is the round plastic thing on my RCA cable?

is this just to prevent from the 2 cables from being separated too much?

[fathom condor]

Okay, my boom arm just snapped, saw the NZXT one. Does anyone recommend it?

[haughty girder]

yep

[haughty girder]

no

show picture of your original arm

and what mic do you have

and what's your budget

and what's the setup

[fathom condor]

i have an sm7b

[haughty girder]

what arm did you have?

[fathom condor]

i had a warm audio boom arm

held up great until now tbh

[haughty girder]

where did it snap and do you know why

actually nvm it looks like a blue compass knockoff

and I hate the compass

If you have the budget, get a PSA1 or PSA1+

much better built than the Blue compass, which is what the WA arm seems to be based on

[fathom condor]

do you have one

[haughty girder]

I don't, I've used many tho

[blazing magnet]

What’s the best mic boom arm

[lean grove]

did they ever fix the spring weight issue on those

[nova wagon]

They fixed it with the psa1+

[dense bloom]

Can someone explain 8d audio and why some people love it? I tend to hate it because the music circles around the listener which doesn't give a consistent listening experience for both ears.

[lean grove]

Idk. I guess some people think it sounds cool.

[haughty girder]

Yes with the PSA1+, but this is why I asked what mic he has. SM7b is heavy enough that the PSA1 spring won't be an issue

[scarlet wing]

Does anyone know how to remove reverb/echo from a headset microphone? It was working fine for months but then I started to have some people saying I echo a bit.

[untold otter]

@haughty girder we talked before abt me getting a new amp for r70x, but wouldn't a motu m2 be more than enough to drive R70X without an external amp?

[warm scarab]

r70x scales weird

its the only headphone I owned that has had this much of a change in sound pairing with different amplifiers

its super sensitive so loudness should never be an issue though

[untold otter]

ig the question then is if it's listenable with the motu m2 then

[warm scarab]

that is subjective

I never tried that pairing in particular

[lean grove]

It should be fine

[haughty girder]

Most headphones can be driven by even an apple dongle, just like dt880 (250/600Ω), hd6x0 and k612, all of which have amps highly recommended but aren't actually necessary

[untold otter]

yeah

[haughty girder]

yes Motu m2 will drive the headphones

[untold otter]

i'm just wondering if it'll sound fine with just the m2

[haughty girder]

will it sound its best? Honestly I don't know I haven't tried that combo either

but it'll drive it for sure

[untold otter]

guess i'll be the first to find out then

[reef ginkgo]

What's the name of the audio company that makes black with green accent bookshelf speakers?

[unborn gale]

Razer?

can't think of any other company that uses those colors

[reef ginkgo]

no it's not

[buoyant vale]

Mackie?

[reef ginkgo]

YES, tnx

Trying to find their Loudspeakers but I only recognize the logo, then remembered the logo is on those bookshelf speakers too

[haughty girder]

lmfao

CR series

[sage shard]

Do market have any bass-heavy topranking headphones?

hd800s?

But it’s too expensive. Is there any cheaper one with similar quality? close hd800s?

anyone know it?>

[unborn gale]

Don't think the HD800s are bass heavy headphones...

Maybe take a look at planars they should fit your bill

But tbh, I'm not sure.

[lean grove]

they're not bass heavy

they're a bit south of bass neutral imo

[lean grove]

there's a dude named phil who makes custom made biodynamic headphones, ive heard a lot of people i trust refer to them as the best headphone for bassheads

called the "philphones"

other than that zmf might have what you want

[haughty girder]

If you want open backs yes

if you want closed then fostex th x00

or semi open then emu teak

[lean grove]

Why would you want closed

[empty scarab]

Hi All, thinking of getting this mic just for discord and podcast style recording things, can anyone reccomend an affordable USB audio interface available in Australia for it?

It’s an XLR mic

[wheat moss]

affordable? behringer
3x the price of the mic? a focusrite or something

[empty scarab]

Haha ok I’ll look into focus right

[empty scarab]

Wait I think I miss read that lol

[empty scarab]

it appears i won't be able to get anything that isnt cheap or chinese fir under 100 bucks

i might aswell get an elato one for the software

[reef ginkgo]

Thoughts on the M-Audio M-Track Solo 🤔 (couldn't find the Behringer)

found my old Shure SM58 and I don't wanna use a yee yee XLR to 3.5mm cable

[warm scarab]

best you can get for that price

[tough lava]

Yes basically. You're looking at 100-200 for good used or cheaper new.

[placid tundra]

Get se v7 and minifuse 1

[slim mason]

Modhouse argons are pretty damn good if you enjoy bass

[placid tundra]

Philphone

[unique wind]

your best bet for that is to find headphones that are comfortable for you and that will handle an EQ bass boost

very few headphones (that arent bad) have a bass shelf out of the box

[median lava]

hello. would a led strip power cabel enough for old car subwofer and 4 spekers?

i have these laying around for many years now. recently wanted to buy some speakers for my pc and had an idea to make them myself lol

[lean grove]

What's gonna happen is the power supply for the LED strip is gonna assume that your speakers are LEDs. So they're gonna apply a relatively high voltage output signal to the extremely low impedance of your speaker array. So one of two things is gonna happen:

1. Your LED power supply is gonna catch fire or go into auto shutoff because it's delivering way too much current
2. Your speakers are gonna make a pop sound and then if the LED driver is still on, the thin wires inside of the speaker are gonna start to get real hot and then eventually catch fire.

[tawdry gale]

philphone

[median lava]

@lean grove is there a safe way to do this?

[lean grove]

By using an audio amplifier, preferably one with multiple channels. A car stereo for example. And a beefier power supply. That thing is rated for 12 volts 2 amps. Which is at best gonna get you 24 watts. Which will be enough for you to play music at low volume.

Also by wiring all your speakers in parallel you're dropping the impedance to super low.

You want to do a combination of series and parallel, preferably series. But if you do the math, having a combination of series and parallel, and get the overall impedance to around 4-8 ohms that's fine too.

[median lava]

okay thx for the info. ill do some more reserch and hopefuly not burn my house down lol

[lean grove]

There's a lot of tutorials on how to use a car stereo for home speakers on YouTube.

[median lava]

@lean grove i could just do 3 speakers. i would be fine with that. i would solder 3.5mm to radio signal. then 2x rear speakers and one bass. but these speakers need seperate 12v how could i deal with that?

[lean grove]

Oh weird. I've never seen a speaker that needs a separate 12 volt

I guess use the power supply

That's what it's probably meant to do, use the cars 12 volt battery supply

I'm not super familiar with car audio

#cars might be able to help better

[median lava]

they come from audi a4 b6 2002 they got good car audio a stoc one

[lean grove]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

@unique wind https://youtu.be/VIhu26oRbHI

[median lava]

yeah anyway ill figure something out thx 😉

[unique wind]

$150/pair passives with no holes in the frequency response and relaxed treble is nice

you could probably just plug the ports and throw a negative highshelf filter on the cheaper neumi bs5s though

[primal pagoda]

any good wireless headphone recommendations? dont need mic since i got a standalone

[lean grove]

Audeze Maxwell is the best right now.

[lucid obsidian]

Quick question. What’s corsairs best wireless headset? Morons messed up my order and are giving me a keyboard and headset choice to add.

[craggy pollen]

sorry for late reply, a very bad output- its only a cheap one off of ebay, and it has no hdmi inputs

and the reason i want a better one for surround is i have a lot of films on my media server that support dolby surround and i would like to use it a lot

[lean grove]

Ah. Yeah then definitely get a better receiver. Something from Sony, Yamaha, or Denon would be my recommendation. Sony has some cool room calibration tech in some of their newer stuff, and Denon generally has nicer amplifiers. But I'm not too familiar with specific models.

In the future you can get better speakers and turn your current speakers into rear or surround speakers so that's a clear upgrade path

[haughty moon]

I'm aiming for a used Cambridge audio one of these days

[craggy pollen]

yeah, i have good past experiance with sony and their sound calabration, i used to have one of their sound bars until i gave it to my nan earlier this year

[lean grove]

Which one do you have your eye on

[haughty moon]

There's an azur 640r for 600$ cad that looks nice

And there's 2 Cambridge audio S70 for 200$ cad

There's also 2 focal chorus 707 for 310$ cad

There's an azur 540r for 250$ cad

That's about what is interesting in my local used market

I already have a topaz sr10 that I really like, but I would like to go 5.1 at some point

The sr10 would go on my pc

[visual cosmos]

I'm looking to get a new microphone and for some reason I keep buying Blue microphones. For me they have bad sound quality and pick up every darned noise there is. They're just SO sensitive to noise, even their most expensive options. I've been trying to cut out Logitech because of faulty hardware and software, I don't understand how they do it. But that's a different story. Could someone list a few good microphones that won't break the bank, have good sound quality and reduce background noise by a good amount? Thank you.

[clear sedge]

what do you consider breaking the bank, and do you have a preferred form factor? are you against the idea of mounting a mic arm to your desk?

I would recommend the cheapest you go be somewhere in the 150-200 range across a XLR mic and interface. Spend that and you will not be wanting for more unless you decide to start doing professional recordings

[fleet fjord]

i just bought razer black shark v2 x headset and the mic isnt found does anyone know how to fix it

[errant pilot]

on my hyper x cloud stinger II it shows the bass boost option unlike on my Astro a50, any way to help fix?

[nova wagon]

i think its just the headset telling windows which sound effect it wants to enable

so no fix

[candid cosmos]

Loudness equalization and Bass boost

[warm scarab]

just use an equalizer bro

and not meme tier windows filters

[errant pilot]

i play fortnite comp and i just switched my headset

i found a fix

apparently it has a game channel and a voice channel

it hass bass boost option for the game channel

so i made my default windows audio the voice on and my voice chat one the voice one as wlel but ingame is the game one

it works rlly well

bass is way lower than my older one though

[candid cosmos]

This hurts to read on so many levels.

[errant pilot]

bcs?

[errant pilot]

which one shld i use?

[warm scarab]

equalizer apo

with peace gui if you have a lower attention span

watch a tutorial in either case

[errant pilot]

i jus wanna know how i could get my bass higher to better hear footsteps gunshots etc

[warm scarab]

but bass doesn't do that

it does the opposite

[errant pilot]

how so?

[warm scarab]

details reside in higher frequencies

bass is lower frequencies

[errant pilot]

in game the gunshots are all supper bass heavy

[warm scarab]

because of reasons I provided you

[errant pilot]

nono i dont need details i just want to be able to hear a gunshot from like 400m away

[warm scarab]

bass will overpower details on bad oems and cause muddiness

[errant pilot]

thats what my old headset did

[warm scarab]

details carry the information of what something does

[errant pilot]

so i have a question

[warm scarab]

yes

[errant pilot]

how is it when i have higher bass i can hear footsteps way easier then on normal

[warm scarab]

you don't you just have placebo

literally every competitive eq lowers bass for the sake of hearing better

if you think you know better than everyone else then I advise you nurture your wisdom on your own

[errant pilot]

i dont know im just basing it off the differences ive noticed

it quites down stuff like emotes reload and pickaxe swings

but makes the gunshots and footsteps louder

[warm scarab]

pickaxe swings?

[errant pilot]

yup

[warm scarab]

which game is this

[errant pilot]

fortnite

[warm scarab]

chief honestly

[candid cosmos]

I actively does the opposite of what you want. Same with loudness equilization which actively hurts pinpointing enemies.

[warm scarab]

good hearing is the last thing you really need for fortnite

its an arcade shooter with super high pace

[candid cosmos]

Also that yea

[errant pilot]

naw trust me when u can pickup on enemies far away its rlly good

in boxfights etc its not that useful

but i w-key

[warm scarab]

any headphone with treble that isn't a roller coaster will do the same as the other headphone

[errant pilot]

so its v useful for my playstyle

[candid cosmos]

Yea just that you can poorly with that setup.

[candid cosmos]

Yours is like L shape.

[warm scarab]

hes got you there

[errant pilot]

what?

wht are u saying bro

[candid cosmos]

V shape is like more Bass and more highs, your setup is extreme Bass nothing else.

Its not v shape its L shape.

[errant pilot]

i meant its very useful

[candid cosmos]

Its really not at all.

Good Sound is, v shape is a bit.

Not that.

[errant pilot]

when did i say anyth abt a vshape

[candid cosmos]

Its like playing paintball with earplugs.

[errant pilot]

i shortened very to v

[warm scarab]

It isn't

[candid cosmos]

Bass there nothing else.

[warm scarab]

yeah but bass boost isn't v shaped

do you know what a v shape is

[errant pilot]

V shape is like more Bass and more highs

[warm scarab]

yes

[candid cosmos]

Yea you have only bass.

[warm scarab]

one of which you have

[errant pilot]

i can still hear the highnotes cleary its j that the bass overpowers it

since the bass is usually the only important things

[warm scarab]

yes that is a bad thing lmao

[warm scarab]

that is the complete opposite case

[errant pilot]

like footsteps are extremely bass heavy and so are gunshots

how/

[warm scarab]

sound information is almost exclusively in higher frequencies

[errant pilot]

when only builds emotes and pickaxes are highnotes

[warm scarab]

bass is just body

this isn't true

[errant pilot]

yeah ion need info i just needa know where they is so i can hunt em down

[warm scarab]

okay man

you do you

[errant pilot]

look ill link u a vid

https://youtu.be/yKBYvivKH3M?t=96

[warm scarab]

increase highs and you suddenly hear better too

wow wtf

its almost like raising volume in general helps you

[errant pilot]

i have volume on max at all times anyways

[warm scarab]

you are going to damage your hearing so don't do that

[errant pilot]

as long as it gets me the dub

[warm scarab]

what are your headphones

[errant pilot]

astro a50

well maybe not at max

cause at max its like a speaker from across the room

why do gaming headphones always have like rlly high bass tho

[warm scarab]

they don't really

its just generic muddy bass

[errant pilot]

ah i see

[warm scarab]

which is a side effect of overdampening your drivers

[errant pilot]

so high treble helps u hear more than bass?

[warm scarab]

yes

it also tires out your ears a lot more

but hey if you want to min max on audio that's how you do it

based on clips you sent high mids is probably the region you'd want to emphasize the most

[errant pilot]

fortnite alredy has visualised audio

[warm scarab]

visualized audio?

[errant pilot]

the thing is when u reach a certain point that visiualised audio goes away

https://youtu.be/8SwVnyth78I?t=38

look in the middle

[candid cosmos]

God this is so crap

[errant pilot]

and also crouching makes you not see the footsteps

[warm scarab]

imaging is related to headphone drivers anyways

[candid cosmos]

Wallhack hearing is either a perfect fitting hrtf for you (virtual surround) paired with an open back pair of headphones - also with little Bass.

Or just open backs.

[warm scarab]

you can't eq group delay

[errant pilot]

are my headphones open back?

[warm scarab]

no

[candid cosmos]

Open back are These where everyone around you hears everything

[warm scarab]

open backs are headphones where the backs are

literally open

you would know what an open back is if you owned it

[candid cosmos]

Funfact the a50 are absolute garbage for gaming in my experience. They are also closed back btw.

The A40 are decent tho, and also open back.

[warm scarab]

how is maxwell's imaging btw if you know about that

[errant pilot]

they arent the best but they get the job done

[candid cosmos]

The a50 have a great thing where if theres any Bass everything else is gone, its less a driver thing but more of an compression thing cause weird done wireless.

I literally took 20mins of troubleshooting to realize they are just crap

Packed them back up and off they were.

[errant pilot]

at the end of the day your headphones wont help w your mechanica and aim

[warm scarab]

for a person who says this

[candid cosmos]

Play without Sound and say that again.

[warm scarab]

you have spent an awful amount of time justifying windows bass boost

[errant pilot]

that is true

[errant pilot]

my headphones die alot

so i usually do

[warm scarab]

probably because you use wireless ones

[errant pilot]

dosent change much hnstly

[errant pilot]

yup

[candid cosmos]

Yea wireless is just not really helpful for gaming xD

[errant pilot]

but yet again bad headphones still have sound

as long as you can hear whats happening around u ur chill

[candid cosmos]

To be fair the a50 are at least good in terms of latency, its around 10-15ms, but everything else is garbage.

[candid cosmos]

Thats the good thing. You cant.

[errant pilot]

i have hyper x cloud stingers

absolutely trash for everything

but they got the job done and helped me get to semi pro and get my first earnings

[candid cosmos]

But, you will only realize that once you had an actual decent pair of headphones for that.

[warm scarab]

not really

[candid cosmos]

Even something like the dt990 which Sound i dislike are a giant heck lot better

These actually provide Sound to you you can work with.

[warm scarab]

rather than spending time concerning yourself with competitive eq, you could just get good headphones with good imaging

[candid cosmos]

Then get actual good ones and you will be impressed

And also sucked down into the sinkhole of Audio lol

[errant pilot]

i know the difference and its huge

but gaming its not that big of a diff

[candid cosmos]

You clearly dont if you are able to use a50s for more than like 1min.

[errant pilot]

listening to music though its a big big difference

[errant pilot]

they last like 7 hours but i play alot so they die often

[candid cosmos]

The best thing is, the a50 were my first actual headphones for PC.

[errant pilot]

what are good headphones then?

[candid cosmos]

And i hate them the second i put them on.

[errant pilot]

dosent need a mic

[candid cosmos]

Forced me to use them like 3 days then returned them.

[errant pilot]

u cant lie though, they are comfy and when you get into the flow state headset dosent matter at alll

whenevr i get into my flow state i literally cant hear anything and i rely on muscle memory and i hit headshots every single shot basically

[candid cosmos]

I am only into iems.

For over ears the best i had were dt990 pros.

But that said, they are still not that good. Surely others can get better options.

But compared to anything you named, they would kill them.

[errant pilot]

170$ is alot though

i could spend that on a better cpu

[candid cosmos]

I hated them.

[errant pilot]

i know headset wise its nothing

[candid cosmos]

Whats the cost of a50s again? xD

[errant pilot]

i could get a g pro wireless

[errant pilot]

hand me downs from my uncle

[candid cosmos]

Also 170 for dt990 is a ripoff, def dont get them for that money. Get something else and also in general i wouldnt recommend them directly...

Just because i personally dont like them that much, but that again comes down to them being over ears.

[errant pilot]

i love over ears

[candid cosmos]

Yea i dont

Thats the issue

[errant pilot]

gaming wise?

or just in general

[candid cosmos]

In general

[errant pilot]

yeah fs in general in ear is much better

in gaming though since its such a larger market over ears are better for me

and its just what im used to

[candid cosmos]

I loved the Soundstage, was more like Sound around you rather than on your ear, but my waaaay too expensive iems can even give me that to a degree im fine with.

So yea i dont miss anything xD

[errant pilot]

i havent had any complaints with my regular airpods honestly

[candid cosmos]

Ew

The Pro 2 are fiiine ish, at least in pure tuning, the rest tho... Daym no.

[errant pilot]

it just connects so nicely with the iphone

it just works

i have the pro 2

[candid cosmos]

I only count Audio xD

Aac is just Bad

[errant pilot]

audio for sure theres better

but like overall airpods are way nicer imo

[candid cosmos]

I want apt x ll or HD tws buds and i might actually get some.

But its just not a thing.

Everything is just sbc and aac. Both being terrible imo...

Sony has their Standard but i dont care xD

Anyways, will Stick to a cable.

For as long as there is no no-compromise wireless.

[errant pilot]

Average Battery Life (in hours) ‎250 Hours

💀

[candid cosmos]

Battery isnt really an issue to me

[errant pilot]

thats logitech g305 mouse

[candid cosmos]

Have to change my iems every 5-8hrs anyways cause my ear shape is horrible.

[errant pilot]

thats more than my hours on like minecraft

and i grinded thta mf for all of 2020-2021

[candid cosmos]

Daym i have like 10x that in mc.

[errant pilot]

how tf

105 days straight

[candid cosmos]

Xbox 360, since i was 7 years old.

Then Laptop, then PC, then modpacks

[errant pilot]

yeah fs

on all those combined most prolly i got the same

im talking on my old laptop which i had for a year

[candid cosmos]

Its just scary how many Servers i spend a lot of time on i can remember...

[errant pilot]

i had this one server

i played on for ages

[candid cosmos]

At least 6 public modpack ones, 10-12 Private modded ones, 5+ vanilla, then only minegame Servers.

[errant pilot]

oh nvm

i have 500 hours on 1 sever for 1 season

[candid cosmos]

Its scary if i think about it

Im such a tech modpack nerd holy.

[errant pilot]

id eat u up in 1.16+ pvp tho

in my prime tho nrn

[candid cosmos]

Pvp is boring. I always was the technician

[errant pilot]

why is open ear better

[candid cosmos]

The one on a AE2 included modpack who has had everything and autocrafting for every thing imagionable. Typically overly complex, waaay too thaught put etc

[errant pilot]

when i could hear my surroundings more

[candid cosmos]

Closed back sounds like the speaker is next to your ear, cause it is.

[errant pilot]

like usually i dont want to hear my mom divorcing my dad

while im tryna get that victory royale

[candid cosmos]

Open back is like, somewhere around you, how far is the factor that differs when you talk about soundstage

King Tier is off ear like the valve index vr Headset has, where the Sound literally is not locatable to a speaker, but you hear everything around you.

[errant pilot]

i get that sometimes while using my airpods

it feels coo

thanks

[candid cosmos]

Thats not it

[errant pilot]

pigeons when u feed them bread

[errant pilot]

its only on like 1 song tho

my eyes

travis scott

other songs dont have that feeling

it feels amazing tho\

[candid cosmos]

Its not about you hear stuff around you, its like the Sound difference of like going from headphones to a surround Sound setup, its hard to explain.

You dont hear the Sound coming out of a speaker directly next to your head but more like Sound just is around you ideally.

If you know what i mean.

[errant pilot]

yeah i feel u

i got that too

i felt like i was in a cinema

didnt feel like i had earbuds on

felt like immersive

[candid cosmos]

Its like the difference of putting a Video on a phone and Holding it on your ear or to hold it like a Meter away.

[errant pilot]

yeahh

but a meter away when u can still hear it as loud

[warm scarab]

I was thinking "wtf server I am in" after googling about dawncraft

[errant pilot]

cant i just replicate that by twisting the back of my earcups

[warm scarab]

this is a simulation confirmed

[candid cosmos]

Dawncraft?

[warm scarab]

look up minecraft modpack thing on google, the ltt audio chat starts talking about minecraft modpacks

literally a simulation made to contain me

[candid cosmos]

Lol

[errant pilot]

no shot

[warm scarab]

none of you are real

[errant pilot]

im real i promis

[candid cosmos]

Im fake

[warm scarab]

modpack I was excited about but disappointed with

[candid cosmos]

Im a virtual cat in an anime

[candid cosmos]

Lol

[errant pilot]

ew anime

[candid cosmos]

Get atm9

[candid cosmos]

Ew fortnite

[errant pilot]

idk how i forced myself to watch 2 episodes of anime 3 years ago

[errant pilot]

its fun asl

as long as im playing w friends anything is fun

[warm scarab]

I like playing good modpacks

not garbage randomly thrown together

literally 99% of the mods in that pack are invalid

[candid cosmos]

Its like sain "idk how i forced myself watching a Action series" not describing at all.

[candid cosmos]

Ah its better than that

[warm scarab]

atm6 was random garbage

[candid cosmos]

But like, big.

[warm scarab]

atm7 was random garbage

all the prior atm mods were random garbage

I think I have a very good reason not to put my faith in the atm name after that many shitty modpacks

look guys we put 800 mods in this pack!!

[candid cosmos]

I liked stoneblock

Tho Chickens are extremely op.

More so than mystical agriculture.

Plus the lava gen was broken.

[warm scarab]

mystical agriculture is often broken

mojang making lava practically infinite with dripstones was also an epic move

watch me fuck all the future modpacks because we wanted to add dripstones

[errant pilot]

it was like naruto i think and Girlish Number

[warm scarab]

truly a mojang moment

[errant pilot]

dunno if i got the name of the second one right

[warm scarab]

I can see why someone would hate naruto

[warm scarab]

I don't know the latter but the name isn't very promising

[candid cosmos]

In stoneblock: cobble gen Block thing + crucible + super hearing Element -> lava -> magmatic gen.

Put a maximum compact machine full of it and you got like - idk. 50-100krf/t

[errant pilot]

yep 681 hours on a singular server

in 1 season

[candid cosmos]

Guess 600rf/t per machine.

[warm scarab]

bro

680 hours

please

stop

[errant pilot]

last season i think i had like 530 hours

i was crazy tho

i havent played that server in like what

6 months

[warm scarab]

good

make that a lifetime

[errant pilot]

yup

i have like 4k hours on fortnite tho so its ok

[lean grove]

https://tenor.com/view/george-seinfeld-gif-5624382

[errant pilot]

im top like 100 in africa

[warm scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/aneurysm-hhhhomeboyyyy-kings-dark-tidings-saga-by-kel-kade-reaperleviathan-head-explode-gif-21578105

[eternal roost]

I'm a bit of an Audio noob so this may be cringe.
But basically, my new PC case has a combined headphone/microphone jack, and I dont like it. I find it rather inconvenient the way "what thing did you just plug in?" Works with a combined jack.

1. Can I just tell windows what I want every time so I dont need to turn off focus assist and click through that menu twice every time I plug in?
2. Would buying a USB to dual 3.5mm be a good idea, split the ports that way.
   OR - because I do a little recording and am somewhat self conscious of how I sound, would looking into an entry level DAC be a good idea?

Additional info: I use both headphones and speakers, and my brother has his headphones, so devices do get plugged in and out a bunch.
My headset is a Black shark V2, the line which Razer made the genius decision to make the splitter half the cable, leaving you with a tiny cable when using the 3 poll plug

[nova wagon]

is that menu comes from realtek audio console?

[versed pond]

@unique wind i just bought tangzu wan'er

[unique wind]

it begins

[eternal roost]

Yes

[nova wagon]

oh easy fix then

set the connector to the one you wanted

then forget about it

[eternal roost]

Ah, that's cool, thanks

[versed pond]

i bought it cuz my apple earbuds suk

[eternal roost]

I appear to have this whack MSI version of the audio console and its missing a few features, should I uninstall it and try to get the original?

[nova wagon]

you mean the popup that i mentioned?

[eternal roost]

basically, this is the popup

you suggested going into the audio console to set a default device so I don't get the popup (unless I misunderstood you)

but, we appear to have different versions of realtek audio console, mine with MSI gaming branding and less featues, yours with stripped down aesthtetic but more featuers

[nova wagon]

have you check the gear icon next to analog

[eternal roost]

yes, gear gives me this

[nova wagon]

how about the speaker icon, anything there?

[eternal roost]

ah wait, I may have found something useful

[nova wagon]

yep thats the one

[eternal roost]

cant find something to set a defuelt, but I feel like it'll go off what I told it in the past, or maybe be smart enough too figure it out.

cool

[ivory tangle]

is the audio technica r70x, presonus pd70, maudio mtrack solo good

[lean grove]

M-track solo is okay.
R70x only makes sense if you can't get a 6xx/600/650 from Sennheiser.
The presonus mic you can probably get an xm8500 or a Shure sm58

[ivory tangle]

6XX is 120$ more, 600 is 150$ more and 650 is 150$ more (aud) r70x is 350
xm8500 is 45$ sm58 is 89$ pd70 is 170$

[lean grove]

Would definitely get the sm58 over the pd70

[ivory tangle]

whats the difference between sm58 and sm58-cn

[lean grove]

Idk

[ivory tangle]

cuz sm58 is 199 and the cn is 89

[lean grove]

Weird

[ivory tangle]

its a completely different mic

its wrong

it sent me to the shure pga48

so xm85000 is 40$ and the sm58 is 199

[lean grove]

I would skimp out on the mic and use the saved money for the 6xx

[wheat moss]

mics tend to have a high markup here in NZ and also in AU, can usually get the SM58 or E 845 from amazon US for $10-30 cheaper depending on exchange rate at the time and if you qualify for free shipping

[reef ginkgo]

How is the SM58 199?

Isn't it it's $119?

(or else I got a deal of a lifetime on my SM58 for $99 or it's an smh58)

[nova wagon]

Aud

[reef ginkgo]

Oh…

[cobalt sparrow]

any good amp mics for under 100-200 or so

and do i need to spend a LOT on an xlr cable? isnt that why there are 3 pins + ground?

[drifting imp]

yo i got 400usd budget for headphones can any one give some suggestions?
main purpose will be gaming ig

[warm scarab]

do you want a multimedia solution

or do you just want to maximize gaming performance

and rest is not really important

[drifting imp]

already bought a pair some one reccomended me

[warm scarab]

what did they recommend you

[drifting imp]

i got the hifiman sundaras

[warm scarab]

💀

which server was this

[drifting imp]

thi

this

[warm scarab]

when

sundaras are like

really fucking bad for gaming

[drifting imp]

💀

wdym

[warm scarab]

they have practically zero imaging

you can tell where a sound is coming from only to your direct left and direct right

everything in between is difficult as fuck to deduce

front right? back left? forward?

good luck trying to tell which is which

[drifting imp]

i mean i got them through amazon

if you can reccomend a better pair

[warm scarab]

I am using the sundaras right now

[drifting imp]

i'll go for them

[warm scarab]

they are decent with eq

but you can get edition xs b stock for like 300$

which is leagues ahead

while xs is a very good headphone in my opinion and most others, better at sundara for gaming too, it isn't a really good headphone for gaming either

[drifting imp]

these?

[warm scarab]

yeah

so what do you want? peak gaming performance or multimedia

[drifting imp]

mainly gaming i ain't finnalie

[warm scarab]

finallie?

[drifting imp]

finna lie*

💀

[warm scarab]

so musical performance isn't super important

alright

[drifting imp]

nah

it's not

[warm scarab]

r70x is the best imaging headphone sub 400$ I am aware of

day and light levels of difference between sundaras

[drifting imp]

link?

[warm scarab]

audio technicha r70x man

[drifting imp]

i see

what kinda amp will i need?

[warm scarab]

you don't really need an amplifier for gaming performance but moreso for music

if you don't care about sound quality amp shouldn't really matter

just save yourself 100$

[drifting imp]

i mean if it's night and day dif

idm

spending xtra

[warm scarab]

to me its a big difference, I don't know what it is to you

[drifting imp]

if it's a small difference ig

[warm scarab]

well if you want to try, zen air dac is alright

[drifting imp]

thats what the other guy reccomended

[warm scarab]

its a nice dac

and a decent amp despite being weak

also

jesus christ this guy

[drifting imp]

yes him

[warm scarab]

out of that entire list

3 of those headphones are options worth ever considering

r70x, k712, hd560s

and even then the k712 is super controversial

[drifting imp]

💀

😭

these it gangy?

[warm scarab]

yes

you can get them second hand for like 160$

[drifting imp]

i never buy second hand

[warm scarab]

you must really hate your wallet

[drifting imp]

🔥

i would only use second hand it it's from a friend tbh

[drifting imp]

will i need an audio card? @warm scarab

[warm scarab]

that is what zen air dac is

and what I said for that goes for this

also every single thing written on that list is meaningless

[drifting imp]

ah alr i see

ty

[tawdry gale]

dont get a zen air dac

apple dongle is cleaner

[drifting imp]

what

[tawdry gale]

also if u are getting a zen air dac, u will need to get a zen air can as well

cuz u there isnt a 3.5mm/4.4 or 6.25 output on a zen air dac

but I wont recommend it cuz its crap

[drifting imp]

whats the zen air can bludren

[tawdry gale]

its the amp

[drifting imp]

oh so

the zen air dac won't work?

[tawdry gale]

wont work on its own

[drifting imp]

but the zen air can will

[tawdry gale]

u need both

[drifting imp]

it's bad though?

[tawdry gale]

yep

[drifting imp]

oh

both

[tawdry gale]

cheap zen stuff is bad

[drifting imp]

fr?

[tawdry gale]

its noisy as hell

[drifting imp]

noise isn't an issue

i can just mount it under my desk

[tawdry gale]

unwanted noise into ur headphone

[drifting imp]

ohhh

💀

[tawdry gale]

even if no sound is playing

[tawdry gale]

just get this

[drifting imp]

will it sound as good though/

?

[tawdry gale]

it will sound better than a zen

cleaner too

[tawdry gale]

or if u are not satisfied, get a magni+ and modi+

[warm scarab]

what no

[tawdry gale]

costs 238 usd without shipping or tax

[warm scarab]

hell you mean air dac wont work on its own

it has an integrated amplifier

[tawdry gale]

oh ye it will but its still crap

I tried it

apple dongle >

[warm scarab]

with what headphones

sundaras?

[tawdry gale]

hd600