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> Almost no-one will give this advice Which makes it quite difficult to find good equipment which is 90% there. What about speakers/home cinema. Any recommenda

by nodata 16y ago

> Almost no-one will give this advice Which makes it quite difficult to find good equipment which is 90% there. What about speakers/home cinema. Any recommendations?

mseebach 16y ago
There's no gospel. Get what you think sounds nice.(1) Go to a real hifi shop, where they actually demo the stuff for you in living room-like conditions (carpet, not warehouse ceiling etc., and no 25 TVs blaring MTV across the aisle), and listen to the difference between, say, $80 speakers and $500 ones, then try to figure out where your ability to hear the difference levels off, and get something in that range. Bring a CD of the kind of music you enjoy. "Thunderstruck" is wonderful for demoing bass, but if you're into indie-fragile-weeping-dude, it's not what you want to base your purchase decision on. If a place won't let your switch between different speaker/amp combinations on your time using your own music, you're not buying from them. (1: Except one thing: cables. Don't get the biodynamic green tea infused ripoff stuff, but the ones that come with your stereo (even good ones) are most likely absolutely hideous. If you already have a setup, and use bad cables, spending a bit of money on decent cables is the best investment you can do.)
- nodata 16y ago
  Thanks for the advice. But on cables.. If it's a digital signal going over the cables, won't it either work or not work? Or are we talking analogue here?
  - rbranson 16y ago
    The only thing to look for in digital cables is build quality, so that the cables last, don't break, and you get your money's worth. I've got these quality ethernet cables I bought 15 years ago that I still use. They don't have to be expensive either. Pretty much anything you get from monoprice.com fits the bill.
  - mseebach 16y ago
    I was referring to analog cables.. but yeah, if you're buying new, getting an end-to-end digital setup is entirely feasible. Still, you probably want a single minijack-to-phono for plugging in an iPod.

by nodata 16y ago

> Almost no-one will give this advice Which makes it quite difficult to find good equipment which is 90% there. What about speakers/home cinema. Any recommendations?

mseebach 16y ago

There's no gospel. Get what you think sounds nice.(1) Go to a real hifi shop, where they actually demo the stuff for you in living room-like conditions (carpet, not warehouse ceiling etc., and no 25 TVs blaring MTV across the aisle), and listen to the difference between, say, $80 speakers and $500 ones, then try to figure out where your ability to hear the difference levels off, and get something in that range. Bring a CD of the kind of music you enjoy. "Thunderstruck" is wonderful for demoing bass, but if you're into indie-fragile-weeping-dude, it's not what you want to base your purchase decision on. If a place won't let your switch between different speaker/amp combinations on your time using your own music, you're not buying from them. (1: Except one thing: cables. Don't get the biodynamic green tea infused ripoff stuff, but the ones that come with your stereo (even good ones) are most likely absolutely hideous. If you already have a setup, and use bad cables, spending a bit of money on decent cables is the best investment you can do.)

nodata 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. But on cables.. If it's a digital signal going over the cables, won't it either work or not work? Or are we talking analogue here?
- rbranson 16y ago
  The only thing to look for in digital cables is build quality, so that the cables last, don't break, and you get your money's worth. I've got these quality ethernet cables I bought 15 years ago that I still use. They don't have to be expensive either. Pretty much anything you get from monoprice.com fits the bill.
- mseebach 16y ago
  I was referring to analog cables.. but yeah, if you're buying new, getting an end-to-end digital setup is entirely feasible. Still, you probably want a single minijack-to-phono for plugging in an iPod.