What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #25 – 2003-02-20 08:45:51

- P3 600 MHz with 256 MB RAM, fans and hard disk (quite) silenced.
- Win98SE and WinXP Pro, the first still for normal use.
- M-Audio Audiophile 2496, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, CMI8738 motherboard soundcards, usually just the first one in operation.
- Pioneer 60W stereo integrated amp, one of the speaker outputs used as headphone output with some custom impedance adaptors.
- Tannoy Reveal passive monitors.
- Sony MDR-7506, Sennheiser HD560, Sennheiser HD580 headphones.
- Standard interconnects and speaker cable.
- Winamp 2.81+plugins, a few times Foobar2000, sometimes EAC for playing CDs.
- AVC Soul DMP-01 (clone of RioVolt SP100 and iRiver iMP-100) portable cd/mp3 player.

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #26 – 2003-02-20 09:28:11

Home:

• AMD Athlon 1.4 @ 1.5GHz, 256 DDR RAM
  
• Modified Soundblaster Audigy with AD8620 opamps
  
• META 42 headphone amplifier also with AD8620 opamp
  
• Grado SR-80 headphones
  
• foobar w/ crossfeed module

For portable use:

• Rio Volt SP100
  
• Cmoy pocket amp w/ crossfeed circuit
  
• Grado SR-80

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #27 – 2003-02-20 11:46:09

AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB DDR
Soundblaster Audigy
creative inspire 5100  speakers
gainward GeForce 4 64Mb
f2k 0.5

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #28 – 2003-02-20 12:14:39

Hardware PC:

SC - Builtin SoundCard
SP - Crappy 2.1, in process of getting better speakers

Software PC:

OS - Win2k SP3
AP - fb2k v0.5

Usage - flac, ape, mpc, mp4, ogg, mp3, wav

Portable:

Hardware - iPAC 3630 + 128Mb + 64Mb + 32Mb CF total 224Mb
OS - PocketPC 2002
AP - PocketMVP

Usage - Ogg q1 = upto 7 Hours of music storage space!

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #29 – 2003-02-20 13:32:04

PC: p3-800
sound card: SoundBlaster 128PCI
headphones: Sennheiser HD497
player: foobar 2k v 0.5

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #30 – 2003-02-20 13:49:53

Computer: Athlon XP 1.4ghz, 256mb DDR
Soundcard: Diamond Multimedia MX300
Player: Winamp 2.81 w/ SSRC resampling, Win2k
Amplifier: Custom-built 18watt amplifier using Sanyo(or maybe Samsung) chip
Speakers: Rebuilt BIC Formula 1's
Headphones: Grado SR60

Anyone here have an M-Audio Sonica or one of those iMics?  I really want an external soundcard setup, but I'd like to know how they sound first compared to a regular internal soundcard.

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #31 – 2003-02-22 22:05:44

Computer: WinXP Pro SP1, Pentium 2.53Ghz Pentium 4, PC800 RDRAM, Radeon 9700 Pro
Soundcard: M-Audio Revolution
Software: Winamp3 & Foobar
Headphones: Pro.2 PH-S560 (need new cans.  these suck.)
Speakers 2 * RCA 75-Watt PRO-LX550 with 5" honeycomb cone woofer and Linaeum dipole tweeter
Subwoofer: RCA 8" 60-Watt PRO-SW60P Powered Subwoofer
Portable: SlimX 400 and Sony w.ear headphones

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #32 – 2003-03-01 20:02:21

Soundcard: Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1
Headphones: Kenwood KPM-410
Player: Foobar2000 .54

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #33 – 2003-03-01 20:39:50

Pentium 4 2.400 GhZ
500 mb ddr ram
HD Maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm
Soundcard: Terratec DMX 6 Fire LT
Headphones: AKG K240 Monitor
Players: Foobar 2000 0.5 and Winamp 2.x with mpc plugin
JVC Hi-Fi system
Altec Lansing ATP3 with subwoofer

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #34 – 2003-03-01 20:56:30

ears.

seriously:

Computer: Athlon 600, 512 MB RAM, WinXP - not that it matters much
Soundcard: SB Live! Player 1024 *
Player: foobar 2000
Amplifier: Technics SU-A600 (does the job ™)
Speakers: some old Universum with paper cones.. very pleasant
Headphones: Sony MDR-S50

* a local retailer who has M-Audio products is less than 200m away fom my place.. maybe I should pay him a visit?  (w00t)

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #35 – 2003-03-01 21:23:57

GENERAL HARDWARE:

-AMD Athlon XP2100+ T-bred B, stepping AIHUB @2100 MHZ (it will be more overclocked when I change my mobo).

-Thermaltake Volcano 7+ HSF (on low speed setting--quiet enough)

-Asus a7a266 (it will be replaced by an Asus a7n8x).

-1 Seagate HD 5400 RPM 40 gigs.

-1 Segate HD 5400 RPM 60 gigs.

-MSI geforce 4 TI 4800SE VGA (at nominal speeds, ATM).

-TDK 40x burner @ Lite-On 48125w (48x).

-Mathsita 16x DVD.

-2x256 MB Hyunday DDR 266 ram (it will be replaced by 2x512 Kingston DDR 333).

AUDIO EQUIPMENT:

-Creative SB PCI 64 soundcard (not plugged ATM).

-Terratec DMX 6 Fire 24/96 soundcard.

-Yamaha HiFi with speakers included (don't know model number. It is +10 years old. It is limiting my audio setup currently, but anyway has good sound and a decent EQ).

-Sennheiser HD 590 headphones (I know they aren't very popular around here, but they are awesome IMHO).

SOFTWARE:

-Foobar 2000 for listening.

-EAC and Audiograbber for ripping.

-Musepack -q 8 -xlevel for encoding.

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #36 – 2003-03-02 00:26:03

P4 with GigaByte board and (sadly) onboard PCI128 (other people have same bad experience with that?),
connected to my Pioneer HTS (DV-444-K, VSX-C300) which then again goes to my ears over Sennheiser HD 570.

I tend to burn CDs and then hear them over that Pioneer-DVD directly - the difference is incredible!

I plan to get a SB Audigy and make that connection at least optical digital   

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Reply #37 – 2003-03-02 02:05:52

pc: p4 2.0ghz xp home
soundcard: turtlebeach santa cruz
headphones: sony mdr-v900
software: EAC (of course!!) lame 3.90.2 (--alt-preset standard) winamp or foobar

What audio equipment do you use?

Reply #38 – 2003-03-02 20:14:06

I have a system at home and one in the office that I both use a lot.

Office:
Dell shoebox 500 Mhz Pentium III with M-audio DIO24/96 TOSlink
Monarchy Audio DAC with build in Preamp Model 22C (stacked PCM63P-K)
Spendor BC1A active monitors via standard balanced interconnects

Home:
Rega Planet
800 Mhz Pentium III with M-audio DIO24/96 TOSlink
Monarchy Audio 24/96 DIP jitter reducer (also electrically decouples PC from the rest of the audio chain)
Bryston SP1.7 surround sound proc (CS43122) and 2channel analog only preamp

Bryston 9-BST via standard balanced interconnect
Harbeth Monitor 40 via standard speaker cables

Earmax Pro headphone amplifier via standard unbalanced interconnect
Sennheiser HD600 with Clue blue cable 4m

As a player I use Winamp 2.81 with bookmark manager as a jukebox frontend. APE input plugin and ASIO output plugin for bit perfect playback. I listen in nearfield setup at home and in the office.

Cheers

    Thomas