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'Real' audiophile equipment is the stuff that sells to recording studios like powered studio monitors and rackmount solid state transports. It costs a lot less

'Real' audiophile equipment is the stuff that sells to recording studios like powered studio monitors and rackmount solid state transports. It costs a lot less than the consumer audiophile stuff, too. If you're buying 'consumer' audiophile products like huge floorstanding speakers made of whatever wood of the day is in favour then you're buying status symbols, not audio reproduction quality.

justinclift 4y ago
> It costs a lot less than the consumer audiophile stuff, too. That's the first time I've heard anyone say that studio monitors cost _less_ than consumer audiophile stuff. Saying that as a person that buys and uses studio monitors, they are not cheap in any way. Even "affordable" entry level stuff (eg JBL Pro LSR 305P/310S) is going to set you back a good chunk of change compared to consumer gear.
- Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
  Hmm from my perspective a pair of JBP LSR 308P MkII and a transport matches the price of entry-level consumer audiophile speakers and a cheap (Topping/SMSL) AMP/DAC pairing yet will outperform it any day.
  - justinclift 4y ago
    Heh Heh Heh. You also need to add the matching 310S sub (https://jblpro.com/products/lsr310s https://jblpro.com/products/lsr310s) for things to sound "right". :) They're engineered to work together, and while you _can_ go without the sub for a while... it's a shit setup and only useful in the short term. Wouldn't want to be doing production stuff (or even end user setup) without the sub. ;)
    - Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
      I thought that the sub was less necessary with the 8" monitors? Maybe I misread or misremember. One of the thing that's interesting to note with monitors is how 'biased flat' is very much a thing and that consumer audiophile speakers are very much not always biased flat, I think the varying companies have a sound profile which they aim to target.

justinclift 4y ago

> It costs a lot less than the consumer audiophile stuff, too. That's the first time I've heard anyone say that studio monitors cost _less_ than consumer audiophile stuff. Saying that as a person that buys and uses studio monitors, they are not cheap in any way. Even "affordable" entry level stuff (eg JBL Pro LSR 305P/310S) is going to set you back a good chunk of change compared to consumer gear.

Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
Hmm from my perspective a pair of JBP LSR 308P MkII and a transport matches the price of entry-level consumer audiophile speakers and a cheap (Topping/SMSL) AMP/DAC pairing yet will outperform it any day.
- justinclift 4y ago
  Heh Heh Heh. You also need to add the matching 310S sub (https://jblpro.com/products/lsr310s https://jblpro.com/products/lsr310s) for things to sound "right". :) They're engineered to work together, and while you _can_ go without the sub for a while... it's a shit setup and only useful in the short term. Wouldn't want to be doing production stuff (or even end user setup) without the sub. ;)
  - Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
    I thought that the sub was less necessary with the 8" monitors? Maybe I misread or misremember. One of the thing that's interesting to note with monitors is how 'biased flat' is very much a thing and that consumer audiophile speakers are very much not always biased flat, I think the varying companies have a sound profile which they aim to target.