The HiFi thread

[MasterOfReality]

There's a person in the local buy swap sell group that has a shitload of reasonable to good stuff on marketplace. Turns out her hubby is a bit of an audiophile and he is constantly buying stuff and then selling it on so he can get more stuff. Like a never ending cycle.

Not really hifi but I have a set of active JBL speakers for my office desk. Good but missing bottom end. Can I add an active sub to these? Pics of rear below. Given they don't have a sub out, am I wasting my time with band-aid solutions and should I just get an all matching 2.1 system?

 

[Calvin27]

Not strictly HiFi. But my trusty 10 year old sennheisers decided to give up and went through the motions.

Shortlisted B&W Px7s2e and XM5. Ended up with the B&W. Somewhat disappointed. The ANC is second to the sony, as is the mic. The build quality and sound quality imo is better. But man this is the first ANC phones I got and I swear it makes everything terrible, even with it turned off! Maybe I've just spent too much time on my wired open cans. I would have thought tech has improved in the 10 years since I last bought a set of cans, but man i guess you can't beat physics of open backs.

/endrant

 

[Dales Cannon]

There's a person in the local buy swap sell group that has a shitload of reasonable to good stuff on marketplace. Turns out her hubby is a bit of an audiophile and he is constantly buying stuff and then selling it on so he can get more stuff. Like a never ending cycle.

Not really hifi but I have a set of active JBL speakers for my office desk. Good but missing bottom end. Can I add an active sub to these? Pics of rear below. Given they don't have a sub out, am I wasting my time with band-aid solutions and should I just get an all matching 2.1 system?

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Not directly, at least I don't think so. Maybe an audio splitter? Take one out to the JBLs and another to the sub input. Extension outlet is the satellite speaker.

 

[indica]

am I wasting my time with band-aid solutions and should I just get an all matching 2.1 system?

No sub but these are great, I have them in my shed.

 

[link1896]

Here are some of my recent pickups for the new house, all of which I picked up second hand.

Given that I can't even imagine how you could improve on the Polk Legend/McIntosh THX setup, I can't understand why people are letting this stuff go.

I've also picked up the top of the range Yamaha AV pre-amp (pictured) and a Meridian C50 10 channel power amp second hand. People are crazy.

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Trinnov processors have redefined the upper end of home theatre processors.

Atmos, Auro, DTS:X.

4K 120/ 8k 60, 40Gbps hdmi capability.

 

[Oddjob]

There's a person in the local buy swap sell group that has a shitload of reasonable to good stuff on marketplace. Turns out her hubby is a bit of an audiophile and he is constantly buying stuff and then selling it on so he can get more stuff. Like a never ending cycle.

Not really hifi but I have a set of active JBL speakers for my office desk. Good but missing bottom end. Can I add an active sub to these? Pics of rear below. Given they don't have a sub out, am I wasting my time with band-aid solutions and should I just get an all matching 2.1 system?

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You can get studio active subs with line level passthrough.

Look at:
-Presonus Sub 8BT: variable LPF & fixed 80Hz HPF
-ESI Aktiv 10S: variable LPF & fixed 100Hz HPF
-KRK S8.4: selectable Xo (LPF&HPF) 70/80/90/100H

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[Oddjob]

Not strictly HiFi. But my trusty 10 year old sennheisers decided to give up and went through the motions.

Shortlisted B&W Px7s2e and XM5. Ended up with the B&W. Somewhat disappointed. The ANC is second to the sony, as is the mic. The build quality and sound quality imo is better. But man this is the first ANC phones I got and I swear it makes everything terrible, even with it turned off! Maybe I've just spent too much time on my wired open cans. I would have thought tech has improved in the 10 years since I last bought a set of cans, but man i guess you can't beat physics of open backs.

/endrant

B&W are over rated and very expensive for what they are.

Check out the AKG K371. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/.../akg-k371-review-closed-back-headphone.19657/

For the princely sum of $229 from Amazon.
https://amzn.asia/d/ayiOuaR

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[indica]

KRK

Can vouch for quality, in the house I have https://www.krkmusic.com/products/rokit-10-3-generation-4-powered-studio-monitor down low very mellow, full noise like a night club

 

[Haakon]

Ordered a pair of these. I've had a few Fiio products and all have impressed with their sound quality. The noise cancelling on these is not amazing according to reviews, but good for occasional flights - sound quality is the priority for office life.

FiiO EH3NC Noise Cancelling Headphones

Powerful Bluetooth core. The EH3 NC utilizes the Qualcomm CSR8675 Bluetooth 5.0 flagchip, which supports the AAC/aptX HD/aptX LL/LDAC/ audio codecs to ensure you get the best out of your music.Also transmission distance and the penetrating power and anti-interference ability have also been...

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Had been using a pair of $70 Mpow ANC headphones that gave up the ghost after two years. They were surprisingly decent sounding (or perhaps I should say surprisingly not shit for 70 bucks!), and the ANC worked well enough to take the edge of the turboprop planes that run between here and Canberra!

 

[MasterOfReality]

Not directly, at least I don't think so. Maybe an audio splitter? Take one out to the JBLs and another to the sub input. Extension outlet is the satellite speaker.

Thanks, that will probably work.

You can get studio active subs with line level passthrough.

Look at:
-Presonus Sub 8BT: variable LPF & fixed 80Hz HPF
-ESI Aktiv 10S: variable LPF & fixed 100Hz HPF
-KRK S8.4: selectable Xo (LPF&HPF) 70/80/90/100H

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Went down the rabbit hole on how to connect subs, did my head in so quit haha. Looked at the frequency response chart for my JBLs, saw where the bass rolls off and boosted it with an EQ. Sounds much better, but still not good enough.