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Post by nc8000 on Jan 2, 2021 22:00:17 GMT
As you know I have some very good (and expensive) equipment that sounds absolutely fantastic, but the last week I've been listening exclusively to the Sony A55 that I got as an Amazon warehouse deal for £100 shipped to Denmark plus the Blon BL01 that I paid £20 shipped to Denmark for, and while this rig in A/B comparison is clearly inferior to my other Sony rigs (see my signature), as soon as the music is playing and I'm just listening to the music, this humble £120 rig gives me just as much enjoyment as the other rigs (clearly the MrWalkman FE R fw also helps). Add to that a Deal of the day £200 1TB microSD card (crazy that the storage media cost nearly twice the price of the rig) to hold my nearly 3.000 albums library in 16/44 flac and that would be all I would need to be musically happy. Makes you wonder .....
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Post by frost15 on Jan 2, 2021 23:14:09 GMT
All in all and given the crazy speed at which the audio tech world has moved in the last decade we've reached a point where you can fully enjoy your music with a decent smartphone (with a dedicated app like Neutron), and spending some money on a decent pair of headphones (you can have very good sounding headphones for less than 200$ nowadays so...). Truth be told, when I'm on the budget gear (traveling, work...) sooner or later I always miss the end-game sound of the best gear I have home, but it's not the dramatic difference I used to experience 10 years ago for example, not at all. It's definitely a very good time to be alive and enjoy music.
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Post by nc8000 on Jan 2, 2021 23:19:15 GMT
Yes the quality of budget gear has risen enormously over the last 10-15 years and given the prices of top gear these days you really are paying a lot for the last 10-15%
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Post by NPAudio on Jan 2, 2021 23:39:08 GMT
I love listening to my plenue 1 and plenue m2, both cost me about £250 - £300 and sound amazing.
Now the gyms back open I've started using my THERMOS VECLOS HPS-500 headphones, cost me about £200 excellent sound and low profile fit. Great thing with the plenues is they all have the same processor, screen, software etc, so even old ones behave like new TOTL models.
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Post by nc8000 on Jan 2, 2021 23:46:34 GMT
Also the Zorloo Ztella dongle from my iPad Pro sounds excelent. You can indeed get very decent sound without breaking the bank
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Post by gerelmx1986 on Jan 9, 2021 10:07:46 GMT
Yhe koss porta pro sound quite good from my wm1a
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Post by gerelmx1986 on Jan 9, 2021 10:15:16 GMT
Sony Media go IS NOT ACCESSIBLE, the screen reader dosnt speak a word.
Does nybody know of a blind-friendly muaix manager for windows? I used to have wony hi-res audio player for windows a no-frills media player and only woks with wndows exlorer hich i can navigate with kyboard and SR
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Post by darginmahkum on Jan 17, 2021 10:59:33 GMT
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Post by TheBandicoot on Feb 18, 2021 20:36:53 GMT
"What is actually needed to fully enjoy music?"
I love the simplicity of this question and yet it's so difficult to answer.
In a nutshell? I believe it's anything that allows you to just focus on the music without any other distractions. It's the main reason I love my Walkman because it does one thing really well and that's play music. I'll admit I like high resolution because I can rediscover songs and hear parts I couldn't hear 10-15 years ago. Maybe that's just a testament to how far technology has come since then, who knows.
My Sony MA900's are fantastic and only cost £200 used. Their staging is incredible for the cost, the price jump to Sennheiser's HD800's would be a waste of money to me when these exist. My Sennheiser Momentum wired in-ears sound fantastic with this too.
Obviously my IE800's sound fantastic either way, but I'd never go walking with them in case they break.
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