New audio setup

[Pleevy]

The headphones are HiFiman HE1000 V2


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Not had the opportunity to listen to any top end headphones yet. They look way out of my league!

[Vitola]

How does Roon organise / show you online streaming content, my biggest pet hate of the streaming options is that unless you listen to Spotify radio you?re just searching for what happens to be in your head at that time rather than browsing options. This over time massively restricts the variety of music people listen to, and you lose the joy of looking through a pile of albums to find something you?d lost. Luckily scanning through music on a hard drive tends to give most of that but as I listen to more and more streamed music I wish they could replicate that experience better.


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Roon is excellent for learning your music listening styles and history, suggesting content based on your current playlist, your library tags. I think they offer a month free trial of the system -


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[Vitola]

What headphones have you got there?

The headphones are HiFiman HE1000 V2


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[Pleevy]

I bet that makes lock down run a little smoother. I've got some serious set-up envy.

We had some great Totem Arro speakers that had to go to my brother when our daughter started crawling/walking, great for the size of the room but the footprint is tiny and I was worried she'd either knock them over our push her little fingers in a tweeter.

What headphones have you got there?

[simwells]

I finally ditched my analogue collection around 10 years ago - ditching my Linn LP12 after converting all my albums to digital and going with a Linn Klimax streamer. Now my collection is either my own purchased stored digital content, or streaming content from Tidal and Qobuz. I still miss all the LP record album content, sleeve notes etc...so I signed up as a lifetime user of Roon - great music playback software interface for streaming content throughout the home, adds artist bio, album info, ratings, sleeve notes, playlists, history - about all of your music. works great on an iPad as a controller for the whole house

How does Roon organise / show you online streaming content, my biggest pet hate of the streaming options is that unless you listen to Spotify radio you?re just searching for what happens to be in your head at that time rather than browsing options. This over time massively restricts the variety of music people listen to, and you lose the joy of looking through a pile of albums to find something you?d lost. Luckily scanning through music on a hard drive tends to give most of that but as I listen to more and more streamed music I wish they could replicate that experience better.


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[SHAMZ84]

Roon....interesting...will have to look at them.

[Vitola]

I finally ditched my analogue collection around 10 years ago - ditching my Linn LP12 after converting all my albums to digital and going with a Linn Klimax streamer. Now my collection is either my own purchased stored digital content, or streaming content from Tidal and Qobuz. I still miss all the LP record album content, sleeve notes etc...so I signed up as a lifetime user of Roon - great music playback software interface for streaming content throughout the home, adds artist bio, album info, ratings, sleeve notes, playlists, history - about all of your music. works great on an iPad as a controller for the whole house

[Pleevy]

It's definitely a bit of a faff sometimes but it's nice to actually have and own something tangible to collect.

When Bruce Willis took Apple to court about his hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of iTunes purchases not being able to be handed down to his kids, it made me think twice about purchasing digital.

We use Spotify to listen to some of the records we have still as it's just convenient and can play throughout the house, but it's also good to see the artists actually farm a bit of money from the vinyl as they're lucky to see pennies from Spotify etc.

[ha_banos]

Nice. I like a bit of hi fi. But like Peejay went digital ages ago. Forever streaming now. I've never been an album geek. More mood genres. So Spotify or radio works well.

I do like to listen to some quality hifi recordings occasionally though. CD.

Got some old power amps driving old kef refs.

With the right source can sound divine. And great for movies too!

Not had a turntable for probably 35 years now!

Enjoy!

[Good Stick]

Lovely! Is that a 1200 rather than the 1210?


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[simwells]

Looks great. I dont think my budget quite stretches to that though.

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It can be a bit like cigars what you think is the budget for a setup grows just like the value of our collections do!


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[7kingsguy]

It all seems odd to me having been there and done it and now being one of the oldest members I've embraced the digital age. I've just bought the Echo Studio for my cabin where I'm spending twelve hour shifts working from home. Getting up every 20 minutes to change the record would drive me nuts.

I think its about slowing down just like with cigars. The problem with digital is that its too easy. I end up switching tracks all the time and my mind wanders to something else. With vinyl you have to give it more attention and just listen to a side. Its not for everyone i get that. Im not one for music in the background. I like to give it my full attention if i can.

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[simwells]

It all seems odd to me having been there and done it and now being one of the oldest members I've embraced the digital age. I've just bought the Echo Studio for my cabin where I'm spending twelve hour shifts working from home. Getting up every 20 minutes to change the record would drive me nuts.

For me the vast majority of the time I listen to digitally streamed lossless music but for setting time aside to properly listen to music I love vinyl.

For me there?s something to be said for pouring a drink and then the ritual of picking a record, warming up an amp and everything else it involves to chill out and focus on just music and do nothing else. The opposite of a convenience I find helps in the modern age where everything else is so rushed.


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[PeeJay]

It all seems odd to me having been there and done it and now being one of the oldest members I've embraced the digital age. I've just bought the Echo Studio for my cabin where I'm spending twelve hour shifts working from home. Getting up every 20 minutes to change the record would drive me nuts.

[7kingsguy]

Nice set up! I love my audio kit, bit like cigars for me worth spending money on to properly enjoy and chill out with. One day I?m having a man cave off a garage with a listening and smoking den!

Currently I use a Rega P3 or Sonos streamer into an arcam DAC then a Rega Elicit-R into Tannoy XT8s which I am trying to convince will do me for a long time now. Have a few custom built valve headphone amps too based on various schematics.





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Looks great. I dont think my budget quite stretches to that though.

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