Headphones, Speakers, Record Players, Gear

[icy moth]

Share your audio equipment collection! Would love to see all that people use to get the music from the medium to the ears, how it sounds, what you think about it

[surreal helm]

Razor headphones that came broken, turtle beach headphones that are broken, a single sound form ear bud

😎

[icy moth]

Here's mine. On the left are Sennheiser HD7 DJ, my daily drivers on pc. Had them for close to 10 years, as you can see the headband is held together by hopes and dreams but i love them dearly.
On the right a pair of Audio Technica ATH M50x BT, basically the most default headphones in bluetooth version (can also do cabled). I use them for on the go, but i find the sound a bit underwhelming, quite muddy compared to the sennies

[icy moth]

have you considered upgrading to stereo lol

[surreal helm]

No I need headphones but they never work

Because my parents do not need to hear my music taste and yt

[icy moth]

i meant stereo headphones as in, headphones were one side isnt broken 🫠

[surreal helm]

Ohhhh if u can't tell idk much abt this 😭😭

But for the turtle beach ones the main issue is that both sides dnt work

😭

[steel phoenix]

lmaoo😭 😭 😭

[icy moth]

Also had the Sennheiser Momentum TW 2 for a while, pretty much the best sounding true wireless in ears you can get if you ask me... But the left side stopped working after pretty much exactly one year, i got them replaced and the replacement also died after a year 🫠that's when i got the Audio Technicas instead

[steel phoenix]

i use letshuoer DZ4 with my xp dual bal DAC

and audio technica M40 for music stuff

[icy moth]

that sounds fancy, never heard any of those brands before. how are you finding it sound wise? if you have any comparison

[steel phoenix]

so SO damn good, letshuoer sounds really clean, subs and highs/high mids are boosted, DAC just gives some crunch (idk how to explain) you really need to try those together, both cost me like 200$. its really cheap for sounds you get

store in city i live rn allows me to listen to headphones without buying, that helps a lot

[icy moth]

interesting. been thinking about getting a seperate dac cuz i dont think my next phone will still have a headphone jack sadly...

[icy moth]

so jealous of that! have a hifi store in my city as well, but their headphone selection is a bit small. the only ones they had i liked the sound of, some model of Grado, were also impossibly uncomfortable for long wear on my head

[steel phoenix]

good thing about my dac is that you can pair it with you phone

use bluetooth

[icy moth]

wont bluetooth then just be the limiting factor all over again?

[steel phoenix]

kinda, yeah, but it doest really make the sound worse, it just loses some colors

i use bluetooth mode only when im outside

i just dont like wires all around me

[icy moth]

yeah, for walking and on the move same

but i notice it enough with the m50, they're already a bit muddy but with bluetooth it's so much more

[steel phoenix]

basically i connect the headphones to my DAC and put it in my left pocket and i use the right pocket for my phone

[steel phoenix]

yeah i didnt like the lows, thats why i bought 40 instead

also i didnt have money to buy m50 xD

[icy moth]

i actually find it a lot more noticable in the mids to highs xd

[steel phoenix]

i just now noticed, i thought theres only one color you can choose from😳

you got the purple one

i thought theres only black xD

[icy moth]

yeah! i think they make a new limited colour edition every year

[steel phoenix]

D:

[icy moth]

they have black and white always, and then something new every year

[steel phoenix]

oh didnt know that

[icy moth]

this year they seem to have dark blue and orange, looks kinda cool but i dont love them enough to collect colourways now xD

[steel phoenix]

xDD

[icy moth]

maybe it will change now tho... i got my personal white whale recently, a new old soundcard for my pc, and on that one the m50x actually sound a lot better? even on par with the sennies perhaps?

(flawless transition to showing off more gear) (second pic: left new, right old)

[steel phoenix]

looks sickk

[icy moth]

sadly quite crashy with an amd cpu, and i'm still fiddling with the eq, it does sound a bit different after all

[lost crown]

Damn this popped off

Behold my ethereal audio set up

[icy moth]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-gif-13487561