Audiophiles unite!

I’ve got a few sets and a couple of decent pairs but my daily drivers are still my Fidelio X2hr. They are like a glove. Nothing comes close to comfort and I can wear them for an entire day without even thinking about it.

Not a critical listening headphone but a good all rounder for listening to all kinds of media.

Man alive! I just managed to score a sound burger but scalpers made it like buying a PS5. Every colour I tried to check out sold out as I was putting my details in until I finally got the black one. Released at 9am every colour other than black was sold out by 9.05.

But, yeah, woo. I wanted one for my desk since they release the last one, so Im pleased.

Love it, looks like a massive hole puncher!

It actually sounds pretty good. Line in to my headphone amp sounds nice and its decent over bluetooth. Its got me twitching for some better bluetooth headphones, tho...

It is a gadget and its a bit of fun, but it is A Nice Thing for the office.

Quite sad to discover my Shure Prologue 250 speakers aren't all that good. I thought they'd make nice reference monitors, as that's what they were designed to do, but I think they're just too old and sound kind of muddy and don't have the kind of top end I was hoping for.

I suspect if you open them up the cones will have perished. Happens with all speakers. It’s not the hardest job in the world to find and fit replacements if they’re speakers you really love.

Hope I can get some advice here on speaker placement - please type slowly and avoid long words!

We are coming into some furniture that will give us a head start on upgrading the living room.

We have considered flipping the orientation of the room which gives us more options in terms of gear but less in terms of sofa space. We would like to upgrade our TV size from 55 to 65”. This will however, if we keep the current orientation, take up the entire space where the current TV and my stereo, turntable and speakers are. The door to the room stops any further expansion.

There is an alcove which a previous occupant knocked through, which runs about 80% the width of the room, which currently houses a sofa we are getting rid of.

The set up could live there with the speakers facing into the room from the right of where I’m sitting now.

However this would mean they would not only be offset, but would be pointing at a large window, which is maybe 7 or 8 feet square. The window has blinds which are made of laminate.

Disregarding the listening angle for now, would this cause some kind of treble frequency hell with the sound waves hitting glass? Would speakers facing the window also make it louder to passers by?

The layout of the room is difficult under any option so anything may be a compromise.

Another consideration is to place the player on the alcove to the right, and then run speaker cable around the skirting and door frame, with the speakers on stands on the same wall as the TV separately. I’m a bit worried about the expense of good speaker cable in that case.

Chopsen

I’ve got QED silver anniversary cable.

I think it’s what I would consider mid-price and an actual audiophile would probably consider low-end lol.

I certainly noticed a difference from the shite cobweb thin stuff that came with my Denon receiver.

We are now talking about wall mounting. It’s something I’ve always wanted to avoid but maybe that’s the price you pay for a stupid sized TV.

That would allow me to have the hi fi stuff safely underneath.

In fact, I might look into whether a new TV could connect to my receiver, and use my hi fi speakers as a soundbar. Only issue there is the receiver is a few years old and the input is either optical or phono - not sure many new telly’s support this.