POLL: Are you an audiophile??

[silverpig]

<<Legacy Focus mains $6,000.00>>

Now here's a guy with taste. Legacy audio all the way man. I just wish I had $50 000 US to drop on speakers.

For those that don't know, link.

 

[N8Magic]

Computer: Polk Audio (model?)
SB Live! Platinum

Home: Yamaha RXV-995a
Yamaha DVDS-795
Paradigm Monitor 7 (mains)
Paradgm Mini-Monitor (surrounds)
Paradigm CCS-370 (centre)
Paradigm Servo-15 Subwoofer

The only speakers I don't like are the Paradigm Monitor 7's. They have very little low end, and I am thinking of replacing them with a set of Yamaha NS-1000M's.

 

[stev0]

Yes... I'm definatly an audiophile...
computer:
boston ba4800's (planning on replacing with something new like z560's, kilpsch or the ba7500's) and Sony MDR-V700 headphones

car: (I'm working on updating this right now, have the amps done sofar!!)
headunit - clarion autopc
speaker amp - Kicker Impulse IX704 (70w x 4)
sub amp - Kicker zr1000 (1000w x 1)
Subs - Crossfire BMF 12" (2)
Front speakers - Clarion 6.5" 2 ways
Rear speakers - Clarion 6"x8" plate speakers

I'm looking at the Kenwood kvt-911dvd, new kicker subs and components, prolly hold off till it get a new ride.

 

[Z24]

HOME

Front: Tannoy mX2's (used to have B&W DM302's)
Center: Tannoy mXC
Rear: old Sony bookshelf (i'm in school, ok?)
Sub: B&W ASW500
DVD: Hitachi DVP-505
Receiver: Yamaha RX-V496


CAR

Speakers: AVI Express EL (sweet!)
Sub: Infinity Kappa Perfect 12.1 (sealed box)
Deck: Eclipse 5342
Amp: Phoenix Gold XS4600 (connected 2x75W, and 1x300W)

 

[DaLeroy]

Ok guys....I think we need to determine what the term 'audiophile' means....

My understanding is that it's got to do with High-end audio equipment, not sh*tty computer speakers that pump out 120db with 10% THD or some $200 dollar home stereo speakers.....Everyone these days seems to think they are an audiophile. Heck, I voted No and I've got speakers worth $1000...I just find it hard to believe that everyone thinks they are an audiophile because of their PC speakers....

Anyone else with me on this one?

 

[silverpig]

Ummm people, being an audiophile doesn't mean that you like to play CS with the sound way up on your klipsch 4.1 system, nor does it mean that you have a loud car stereo, it means wanting to (if you're not actually able to) drop $13 000 on a set of Sennheiser electrostats, hooking them up to your turn table and newly polished vinyl record and listening. If you were an audiophile, you'd describe your HT system not with watts, but with THD. True audiophiles can tell the difference between an mp3, an original .wav, and vinyl in seconds.

 

[silverpig]

Impeccable timing DaLeroy.

 

[Z24]

Main Entry: au·dio·phile
Pronunciation: 'o-dE-O-"fIl
Function: noun
Date: 1951
: a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction


I don't think it is required to own expensive speakers to be an audiophile.

 

[silverpig]

True. You don't have to own jack, but you have to be enthusiastic about hifi, not just loud speakers.

 

[Z24]

<< If you were an audiophile, you'd describe your HT system ... >>


CORRECTION: A true audiophile would not have a home theatre system

 

[silverpig]

You just said that what you own doesn't make you or break you as an audiophile, but rather your enthusiams towards hifi. In true hifi reproduction, THD is more important than pure watts.

An audiophile would take an HT system with 0.0008% THD and 80W per channel over an HT system with 0.01% THD and 150W per channel...

 

[Z24]

Most people I know that consider themselves audiophiles shun the concept of a home theatre system. They are 2 channel to the death. That's what I was getting at.

 

[Z24]

Oh, and an audiophile would probably take the system that sounds better, not the one with the better specs. I'm sure that's what you meant... but you can't just compare specs on paper because they are not always directly comparable.

 

[Linux23]

<<

<< If you were an audiophile, you'd describe your HT system ... >>


CORRECTION: A true audiophile would not have a home theatre system >>




CORRECTION: they normally have a separate system for 2-channel reproduction, and a separate system for reproducing high-fidelity multi-channel audio.

 

[BD2003]

<< Custom sub:
4 15" Tempest built into the house using a coat closet as the enclosure
powered with a 1,000+ watt Hafler amp
EQed with a mono 5 band Symetrix 551 parametrix EQ so as to be Flat from 10hz to 80hz. >>



That is just too damn cool. God forbid you have any pets! Pics?

I'm still in college, but I've got a pretty sweet setup for my HT/Comp speakers:

Paradigm Titans (Front)
Paradigm Micros (Rears)
Sony SA-WM40 (Sub)

Still working on getting a center. My entire residence hall knows me as "the kid with that loud f*cking music".

I do it for the nod. Worth every penny.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Also post what kind of speakers ya got... Computer and/or Home stereo

I consider myself to be an audiophile, im always trying to tweak everything (when the moneys there <- not too often )


Computer - Klipsch v2.400's & Altec Lansing 880's (With sats disabled, bass only) w/ Acoustic Edge
Home Theater - 2 circa-1987 Big-Ass Sony Floor Speakers, Still pump amazingly well for being 15 years old

How bout you all? >>



I consider myself to be an average listener. I prefer moderately nice system over a POS Koss crap, but that as far as I get into it. I have a Philips Mini system and a pair of 4' speakers hooked up to a 1200W amp(no AM/FM receiver) and I use the mini system 90% of the time, because it has a remote.

I'm no where near the craziness of some people who thinks that super duper ultra mega fat ass speaker cable sounds crisper, softer, flatter etc than 18AWG flat cable from Home Depot. I think being an audiophile often involves being very particular about stupid crap like this.

 

[BFG20K]

thanks for the links DaLeory.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

geez, i'm definately not an audiophile.

Computer: Klipsch ProMedia 5.1
oops, for to add: Hercules Game Theater XP

Home Theater: Don't got one. don't got a home either. i'm a student. so computer = my home theater.

 

[Goi]

Well, I don't consider myself to be an audiophile, but I do consider myself an audio enthusiast. I don't know enough about the audiophile world to be considered an audiophile I think...
Anyway, my equipment is pretty tame in the audiophile/hifi world
Computer - Sherwood S-270 bookshelf speakers with modified Response tweeters(front) and KEF C40 stand mounted speakers with modified internal bracing(rear)
Home Theater - PSB Stratus Goldi(front), PSB Stratus C6i(center), PSB Image 2B(rear/surrounds), Paradigm Reference Servo-15(sub)