I use ATH M50xs with bluetooth, except bluetooth sucks in Windows even when using different dongles so I just use the optional aux cable it came with to a hyperX USB DAC. I would have to re-pair it every session and sometimes more than once. Using bluetooth with an Xbox controller made games lag like crazy whenever it wanted to display a battery warning. I don't use bluetooth on my home PC anymore because it's so shithouse.
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i got a cheap little bluetooth 5.0 receiver to use with my pc (i use toslink but it also just takes any 3.5mm input). works with apt-x lossless so the sound quality is pretty good as is the latency then i connect it to the fiio btr3 and then my headphones. works great iirc it was about $20. i'd post it but the amazon link is dead
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 20:46 |
I got two dongles that were different brands and neither worked well in any use case.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 22:48 |
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it's not a dongle per se. it's a dedicated device that takes audio input, recompresses it on the fly with the requested codec, and broadcasts it over bluetooth. there's only a microusb port for power (it's kinda old though, i imagine newer ones use usb-c) ime the usb dongles have bad antennas and can pretty easily suffer from interference
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:06 |
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Ehhhh not really. theres lots of 2.4ghz flying around but its all built to kind of run through each other and inverse cube means that signal strength is super flea powered more than a few feet away
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:08 |
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yeah but the receiver i'm talking about is about the size of a hockey puck. it must have a similarly sized antenna because it worked very well from across a 1200 sq ft apartment e: lol stupid ipad deleted "must" Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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i still have a pair of sennies i bought like 12 years ago that use KLEER wireless tech which is a proprietary alternative to bluetooth for sending audio wirelessly. they work pretty flippin great. twitch gamers probably wouldn't want to rely on them but for normal stuff there's basically no lag which is impressive considering their date. the bonus is that they come with a puck that you can just plug any 3.5mm cable into so you can use them with tons of stuff
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:24 |
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i wear some $50 over ear turtle beach things my friend recommended. everything sounds like poo poo to me cause my ears are hosed up
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 00:55 |
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also i don't do in-ear ones cause they won't stay in for more than 10 seconds
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 00:56 |
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i wanna get some sennheiser hd25s to fulfil my late 90s DJ aspirations
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 03:32 |
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im wearing v700s right now
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 04:05 |
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graph posted:im wearing v700s right now how do you still have a working pair?
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 04:16 |
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qirex posted:how do you still have a working pair? because i treat all my gear well
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 04:29 |
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i also found a never-used pair on ebay that was in a closet for like 15 years about 5 years ago so i have that too literally 'my college bf bought me these sophomore year and i never used them.' good poo poo e: and replacement pads too. so im prolly good to go
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 04:37 |
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Cat Face Joe posted:also i don't do in-ear ones cause they won't stay in for more than 10 seconds same
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:00 |
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try puting them in your ears and not your rear end
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:34 |
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echinopsis posted:try puting them in your ears and not your rear end the buttplug subwoofer stays in pal
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:35 |
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echinopsis posted:try puting them in your ears and not your rear end it's working well for you?
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:36 |
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OldAlias posted:the buttplug subwoofer stays in pal buttplug? upgrade to a bass snake
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 17:39 |
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c audiophile s: Picked up a time capsule from ebay. These are not 'accurate' headphones. They can arguably be uncomfortable headphones. but quote:Sony MDR-V700 Over-Ear DJ Headphones - Silver. these are the headphones you used in 1998 when playing your records Countered with an offer that i considered a little low and they accepted, so hell yeah.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 18:15 |
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if sony remade them with metal post holders I'd buy new ones but I will not fall prey to that nostalgia. besides I still have a working pair of 7506
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 18:40 |
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modern headphones are really really good though. you don't even need to spend a lot to get a good pair these days
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 18:43 |
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qirex posted:if sony remade them with metal post holders I'd buy new ones but I will not fall prey to that nostalgia. besides I still have a working pair of 7506 if they'd been popular like 10-15 years later i bet we'd have some dude CNC'ing replacement hinge assemblies out of aluminum or something and it'd be amazing they're a bit vintagey for people to get that sweaty over though
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 19:02 |
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qirex posted:stereo rules and I'm never going back to surround sound unless I have a dedicated room. you absolutely don't need more speakers if you can position your speakers correctly in your space [I do have a subwoofer though] leave that gimmicky poo poo in the overpriced theaters
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 19:15 |
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i have an early 80s 2.0 setup and a 2022 7.1.2 setup. both are good for their tasks but yeah a good stereo rig is just fine. surround is nice for when i smoke a bowl or w/e but you gotta have the right room placement. i basically can't rearrange my living room ever because there's only one way that poo poo will work right
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 19:26 |
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you know i just realized this, its a little strange that some weirdo didn't buy NEC's last laserdisc fab or whatever and there's probably no way to pay somebody $995 to press a custom oneoff dubplate laserdisc
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Jonny 290 posted:you know i just realized this, its a little strange that some weirdo didn't buy NEC's last laserdisc fab or whatever and there's probably no way to pay somebody $995 to press a custom oneoff dubplate laserdisc sounds like a goon project
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 08:20 |
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Beeftweeter posted:modern headphones are really really good though. you don't even need to spend a lot to get a good pair these days I have a set of these Beyerdynamic's which seem to hit a decent sweet spot for quality vs. value. https://north-america.beyerdynamic.com/dt-990-pro.html Seem fine to me. Use them every day and they are comfy.
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 20:07 |
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many years too late, i finally got some lil baby studio monitors (kali lp-6 v2) and holy poo poo it's like listening to music again for the first time. they're plugged into a focusrite scarlett 2i2 (baby's first audio interface). all the fancypants dacs look pretty neat, but i'm a basic bitch Silver Alicorn posted:I’ve experienced very little/no hearing loss as I’ve aged saaame, always been super diligent about earplugs at shows, etc. just did a tone generator and can still hear up to 15khz plenty fine
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 02:04 |
yummycheese posted:I have a set of these Beyerdynamic's which seem to hit a decent sweet spot for quality vs. value. I have the 80 ohm 770s and I was really surprised. I'd be really interested to hear what their next tier up sounds like. I bet it's bonkers (triple the price tho)
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 02:08 |
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fancy dacs are absolute snake oil meant to thin wallets when people run out of turntables and speakers to buy. dont worry about it your scarlett is up to the task
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 05:50 |
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apropos audiophilia, i had no idea vinyls were an environment hazard stumbled upon flashbulb talking about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2czFuIYmQ
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 10:17 |
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what is the right amount of "acoustic treatment" in a room with speakers?
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 11:12 |
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Jonny 290 posted:fancy dacs are absolute snake oil meant to thin wallets when people run out of turntables and speakers to buy. dont worry about it your scarlett is up to the task what the gently caress
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 11:52 |
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:what is the right amount of "acoustic treatment" in a room with speakers? a lot more than in a room without speakers
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 12:13 |
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but srsly, as much as you can get away with. by the time your spending low-mid 3 figgies on speakers then your room acoustics start being the weak link for basically every room
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 12:14 |
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i have a nice set of campfire audio over-ear headphones that sound loving amazing and a pair of in-ear final audio earbuds that i mostly listen to podcasts with but still sound not bad when trying to drown out the subway noises with music ty previous job for letting me expense both
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 12:34 |
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my family owns a hi-fi and record store so I spent a lot of time in the presence of expensive gear that I couldn't tell the difference between after a certain point, but it did mean that I was exposed to Criterion laserdiscs at a very young age so it's impossible to know if it's bad or not Once I graduate and start making figgies again, and presumably living somewhere apart from an apartment with thin walls, I'd like to get some sort of setup going again I am in the market for a small DAC, though: I use Apple Music but my workstation in the lab runs Linux so I've been listening to more music on my phone, but I don't love wearing wireless earbuds for long stretches and I have a decent pair of open-can AKGs that I'd prefer to keep using despite their mini-stereo jack, so if any of yall have a recommendation for something that works in that space I'm all ears
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# ? Jul 26, 2023 15:34 |
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check out fiio's btr series
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Dijkstracula posted:my family owns a hi-fi and record store so I spent a lot of time in the presence of expensive gear that I couldn't tell the difference between after a certain point, but it did mean that I was exposed to Criterion laserdiscs at a very young age so it's impossible to know if it's bad or not i know linux famously doesn’t have audio but can’t you use the web client if it comes to it
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