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I prefer headphones because I'm not an autistic manchild.

Translation from russian: "Room of that user with $3000 PC".
Sound system: LG CM4320.

I prefer speakers because I don't live with my parents.

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Where can I get cheap replacement speakers?

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Just bought these as portable speakers since I don't have room for proper studio monitors.
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Sounds extremely good for the form factor, even the low end range is pretty fucking decent. Would recommend if you have a lot of money to spend on a last longing product that you'll take to your deathbed.

10 years and no desire for anything else

go watch Inception and decent volume

>logitech speakers


do people actually like these memespeakers?

They sound shit. I mean, if you want 20 bucks speakers that do the job, go for it but they're memespeakers regardless of the price/model.

>Inception
fuck I meant Interstellar
youtube.com/watch?v=o_Ay_iDRAbc

they sound fine to me. they do highs and lows just as i want them to. there's probably some detail lost but i'm not bothered

Anyone here try HTD bookshelf speakers? Looking for general multimedia

doubt it
lvl3 looks mean

Because you never owned or even listened to anything of value. You can get accustomed to smell of shit too if you live your whole life in shit.

This. Logitech speakers are only targeted for people who don't have internal speakers in their laptop or monitor or some shit.

The only true GOAT

An user recently recommended me Behringer Studio 50USBs as a foolproof solution to my audio-luddite problem, since I wouldn't have to mess around with amps, DACs etc, is it sound advice or are there better alternatives?

No, not really. Low frequencies on those speakers are garbage. There is literally no extension, like you would expect from speaker with mid-low driver of this size. Otherwise it is very good speaker set for the price, but doesn't even come close to entry level studio monitors. Entry level monitors are 2-3 times more expensive though. Also r1600 tiii is better.

>literally $50 Chinese speakers marked up for dumb muricans

No, you prefer headphones because you are an autistic manchild. Speakers are for people who can afford to not have neighbors who are their parents.

no bass

I bought the R1700BT speakers and a dedicated sub, bretty good in my unqualified opinion

wait, is this only bait or do you actually believe the opposite of the truth?

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passive speakers pretty consistently out preform powered speakers. Honestly a component system will still give better sound quality than anything else.

are a pair of Klipsch heresies worth the ~$1000?

anything with under 6" drivers belongs in trash

Looking for a set of passives to compliment my Sansui AU-555a for listening to records and streaming. Will probably use for watching movies and shit too. ~$350

For powered these are goat

I picked up these for my bedroom and mounted them on the ceiling: amazon.com/gp/product/B00EOZFUYI/

I am pleased with my purchase

What? Powered speakers are just passive speakers with built in amps. Not sure why you think passive speakers outperform them unless you're testing for home theater only at ridiculous volumes

too big for nearfield use

Why too big? The level 2s look about the same size as some popular monitors

these babies are the best. You'll be surprised of some old vintage speaker that can BTFO of modern speakers. JBL Speakers where made to last.

Anything is better than Logitech...fugly tho

What am I looking at? The wood veneer and tacky, arbitrarily angled tweeter mounts scream autism.

Thrift shop score.
$20, did I do good g?

please Sup Forums suggest me speaker system for pc.
Should I just get a 5.1/7.1 hdmi reciever, and speakers? They're pretty cheap at garages sales.

Logitech z625 THX

seriously impressed with these for the price. lots of base and great sound.

Sort of speaker related, but what is a good DAC that:
>has a volume knob on the front
>maybe has a headphone jack/amp
>is good for a stereo/2.1 setup

I currently have the audioengine a2+ and was thinking about getting a Kanto Sub6 to hopefully compliment them. They're both powered. The one I was looking at to continue my meme choices was the Audioengine D1. It has everything I want in a DAC, but I don't know if there is something better and cheaper.

Tell me a better one at $25 then. Looking to buy one

I have these paired to a VSX-456.

what is he listening to?

crazy frog

Bowers & Wilkins or go fuck yourself.

I've listened to well over a hundred different speakers over the last 4 years and their quality for the money is as good as it gets.

Yes you did. What model is the amp?

you poor souls

Hs8 are god, but I've got them in a small rokm right now and its fucking with the bass. Feels like there's less on them now. On a different note anyone got stand recommendations? Need about 1.2 Meter ones

>your great tower speakers will always sound shit because you can't position them properly

And because their non reference

I got the bose companion 5 I think. Pretty sure I got memed because to me it sounds like normal stereo speakers.

Nice meme.

Bose is a meme, nearly on senheiser levels

Is it possible to tell from looking at speakers if they are decent or not? I see many speakers piled up in thrift stores and I am not sure what's good and what's crap. Is it brands? Size of the speaker hole? lI tried googling a 5in1 home stereo set up at goodwill for $30 and all the reviews sounded like shills.

Not really, takes quite the knowledge and experience to know a lot of brands and their past model lineups, also being able to tell anything about the sound just from construction type, weight, membrane stiffness, chassis manufacturer and so on is hard

>built to last
Need to refoam the surrounds and replace the crossover caps in almost all cases though with vintage stuff

Would JBL LSR305 be enough for a 31m2 / 332 square foot room? I'm not expecting the same sound in the opposite corner of the room that I will get from arm reach on my desk but still.
Should I aim for bigger drivers?

We are talking about an apartment building, I'm not really expecting to be blasting this at full volume, so I'm wondering if the 305 will be enough for the time being.

No. And 99% of those are complete dogshit speakers from home hi-fi systems. Your best bet is to google models.

Have you ever wondered why those kind of speakers are called nearfield audio monitors?

>Have you ever wondered why those kind of speakers are called nearfield audio monitors?
How bad would it be Is the real question. No way it will fill up the whole room of course.

Nubert or dali btfo's bw memespeakers

Send help
Got these for free years ago
GPX HT12B 2.1 Channel Home Theater Speaker System (Black,3)

but man do I need to buy new ones, any guides or trust-able sources to find nice ones for varying prices?

Used computer speakers all my life.

What happened to all the old Sup Forumsuides and charts?

For the same price, will I get a better sound experience with speakers or with headphones?

In case it varies accross price ranges, assuming a budget somewhere between $200 and $400.

depends on what you want
'naturalness' and realism of reproduction, space, sound localization: speakers
frequency response (mostly bass extension), volume: headphones

Well, you are going to hear music in your room. They are not going to fill the room with sound properly. I'm not sure what your question even is. If you want speakers that will fill the room with sound properly then don't buy studio monitors - speakers that are designed specifically to sound good at certain point in nearfield.

I want to save money buy buying good desk speakers but also that will sound nice around the 31m2 room while I move around it. It's not hope guess I'll need to invest in big monitors later on.

Until certain point always headphones. Past that point always speakers.
Generally speaking, until you can afford good set of studio monitors (starts around $300 with audio interface and cables) you are better off getting headphones. Past that point headphones go into placebo tier audiophool territory while studio monitors go into accurate as fuck pro gear territory.
You should not decide between headphones and speakers based on price/performance ratio, it's fucking retarded. Headphones don't bother people around you and don't care about acoustic properties of your room. Speakers do. Most of the time it's good to have both.

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Budget?

>frequency response
Forgive me if I'm being a brainlet but isn't this the same thing as "realism"?

Say I want realistic sound positioning for immersion in Skyrim and better awareness in FPS games, but also a cinematic experience for watching movies. I take it you would recommend speakers? How much would you say I should spend for a high quality, but not placebo-tier, experience?

ITT poorfags talking shit because they got decent speakers off craigslist yet give no real insight to those asking questions

Micca origin g2 is pretty good

>acoustic properties of my room
This may sound retarded but how do I check/measure that, or take it into account?

B&W are the Beyerdynamic of speakers
Put some bass traps and foam in the walls to fix the bass, if that doesn't work get a miniDSP and do room correction

Yes

have you ever seen a person SO wrong, Sup Forums?

LSR305 and some subwoofer. The LSR310S is designed to complement them but it's a little pricey.

When it comes to frequency response, more even is more natural sounding. You get all the details in the sound in appropriate balance. The less accurate a speaker is, the more details it hides.

>Forgive me if I'm being a brainlet but isn't this the same thing as "realism"?
no, at best it's a part of it. a really flawed FR causing obvious discolorations of course sounds somewhat 'unrealistic', but I mean more in a sense of the general perception. imagine it like that: a headphone directly interacts with the auricle of a single ear, it's directly in front of it, a speaker is an 'actual' fixed sound source in the room, if you move your head slightly the positioning changes, it interacts with both ears and their crosstalk and 'interaural time difference' depending on head position creates the actual information of where a sound is localized from and so effects like the phantom center can exist and so on
... a headphone can only try to simulate all this, so of course it's less realistic.

>Say I want realistic sound positioning for immersion in Skyrim and better awareness in FPS games, but also a cinematic experience for watching movies. I take it you would recommend speakers? How much would you say I should spend for a high quality, but not placebo-tier, experience?

you want good speakers, but under a certain budget and size you'll miss the bass, especially if you want a cinematic experience
$1000 should give you something really nice, under that I'd probably go with nice neutral sounding headphones like the sennheiser hd 600

Best way is to buy either a receiver or a miniDSP as they have a setting for room correction

>$1000
Yeah that's a bit over my budget. Good to know though. I do have the HD6xx on order from massdrop, so those will serve nicely in the meantime.

just eyeballing the price point, though. if you go that
route and combine good smaller speakers with a good subwoofer and careful setup and positioning you can stay a whole bunch under $1000 I guess

This is way too complex topic for me to have a drive and explain it to you. Just read up on studio monitor positioning, there is a lot of shit on the internet on this.
Basically, your speakers should not be close to wall, especially if back bass port reflex. Also there should be enough space behind you to avoid reflections from wall. Corners of the room should be bass trapped, but this is going into autism mode. You can eq some things out though, or trim bass to -2 or -4 if you are stuck with desk against wall.
The point is, speakers are always affected by room acoustic properties, which is important to account for. Doesn't mean you absolutely can't use speakers if your room is not a professionally treated audio room, unless you run actual studio out of your room.

>I don't live with my parents
I don't either but I do live in an apartment. Speakers will limit you unless you're living all alone in a house.

I do have a surround setup, had it for ages. And I do use it a lot but I always switch to headphones in the evening if I'm alone.

My front speakers, picture of one related, are very old Philips 3-way speakers rated at 60W at 4 ohm. They were made in Holland. These were actually - seriously - my grandparents speakers. And they are awesome.

Yes. You did very good.

>$1000 should give you something really nice, under that I'd probably go with nice neutral sounding headphones like the sennheiser hd 600
The fuck are you smoking? You don't need $1000 for good speakers. Set of lsr 308 is $400. Add $100 for audio interface and $20 for cables. Their mid-low frequency driver is good enough for good bass reproduction in near field. You will not find headphones that even come close to sound stage set of lsr 308 creates even if you come into 10s of thousands of dollars territory.

I rent a house and am still always worried that my neighbors can hear my speakers late at night. I have no idea how far the sound is or isn't traveling. There's not a ton of space between our houses, like basically just a single-lane driveway. I know I can hear my neighbors play music sometimes but I can't know if it's because they're being obnoxiously loud with it or if the walls are just that thin. So after about 10pm I tend to switch to headphones just to be safe.

didn't know they were even cheaper over there, my bad
okay, so make that $750 so you can get some stands as well

You can always ask them, unless you're blasting porn and want to take zero risks.

Dude, just get the philharmonic aam and the micca origain (with or without DAC), it should be around $300
If you feel the need for more bass the micca has a preout so it's easy to connect to any sub

>graphic designer so I'm around high end displays a lot
>try to tell my brother how his monitor has terrible color reproduction, dead pixels, ghosting etc
>he says he doesn't notice and that it doesn't matter to him

>I genuinely unironically enjoy the sound from my Chinese no-name $50 speakers
>dread the day I might hear a quality sound system and forever ruin cheap shit for myself

wew lad

>be audio engineer
>everyone around me has sound bars and bluetooth boomboxes
>dead inside now

>philharmonic aam
these look great on paper for that price
but I'd certainly get a sub with them, especially if you want to watch movies

What does Sup Forums think about the YAMAHA NS-6490, pic related? Thinking about getting it for movies and vidya.

2x hs5 + 1 hs8s + 2i4 = goodness

What does
>The beyerdynamic of X
even mean?

well as far as I know their products beyerdynamic stands for treble-heavy, decently priced and built like a tank
none of this is true for b&w

I had actually been looking at and listening to B&W speakers and I feel reasonably positive. Are there that many better options in the price range of the 685 S2's?