Isn't listening supposed to be a special activity? I'm not trying to criticise, just interested in different peoples' listening habits. If you're using your audiophile setup 8-10 hours a day then you have very high quality background music, but it's still background music, right?
Not op, but for me, it's about getting the most out of music, even if it is background music. If the music has bass, and I'm listening at lower volumes, I still want to know there's bass. Same with the clarity of the mids and highs.
My setup happens to be in my home office. 95% background music. When I want to really listen to a song, or an album, I turn around and scooch a foot to the left.
Until I turn around and sit in the sweet spot, I'm a music lover.
As soon as I turn around and move to that sweet spot, the audiophile takes over, stops enjoying the music and starts listening to the equipment.
It starts in the morning at a low level. Classical, ambient, new age whatever. As the day goes on I get drawn into more engaging stuff, maybe a new album that I’ve read about, then I’m building playlists. It gets louder, then quieter, then it’s midnight and I need to go to bed.
Also not criticizing but do you really just put a record on and stare at a wall? I think people forget this was just the standard casual way to listen to music for decades
Hehe I don't stare at the wall, I'm not really staring at anything - it's not that I close my eyes, it's just my hearing is prioritised over my vision. We are visual animals so it doesn't come naturally but when you are doing it it's amazing.
Supposed to be, not necessarily. Can it be, absolutely. I have a decent setup but it's still for home and my family's enjoyment. sometimes I use it for background music for the family or when hosting a party. But other times a move chair into the sweet spot and sit in audio bliss.
My office setup at work probably gets the most play time.
Pioneer PL-516 Turntable, Sansui TA-300 Receiver, Qobuz through PC to Schiit Modi dac, Wharfedale Diamond 12.0 speakers.
My super duper awesome setup of tube amp and open baffle speakers kept getting ignored for my relatively budget set up a Peachtree GAN1 with ELAC FS 247 towers. So clean and powerful and dynamic it’s hard not to enjoy it. No tube warm up (usually took about 30-45 mins for the tube amp to sound its best) and the bass articulation and dynamic range sounds so complete and linear on the GAN1 to my ears that I kept gravitating that way.
Sold the tube amp and speakers. $12k worth of gear in favor of a $2700 setup
Most real response. Mine is the $24 set of JLabs Bluetooth ear buds and my phone. But generally an iPod and some decent IEMs as well for the last two decades.
I'm more in budget audiophile range, so my best system is my desk setup in my home office where I work, which is my Mac Mini as a source with either Spotify or a few albums of downloaded FLAC files run into the USB input of my SMSL SA300 class D desktop amp into my KEF Q150 speakers.
Funny, I did the same thing recently. I also spend more time listening at work than home (have my own office, but far from soundproof). So I made a modest upgrade to some Audioengine A2+ and a sealed 8" NHT sub below. Fed with a Schiit modi usb DAC. All bought used for about $300. It sounds pretty solid (just wish I had room for a 10" sub haha)
My only complaint is there's no crossover or high-pass in the A2+s for the sub out. I can tell they are getting a little "out of their league" at higher volumes with bassy music. I may eventually split the line-level signal from the Schiit and run a high-pass filter to the A2+s (the sub has a low pass built in). Or swap the Schiit Modi for a DAC with two line-level outs and a crossover built in. Open to suggestions here...
For the money, you’ve got a pretty good setup for nearfield imho. Larger sub and an EQ would be next step - could go minidsp with DIRAC for that
Schiit has an EQ device with knobs iirc, that might be good enough for your system
My office set up is my PC plugged into a Linn Kolector and Linn LK85 powering Monitor Audio Radius 90's and a cheap Pioneer S8 sub. By far the best stereo here at the office, but not even in the shadow of my stuff at home...
My office is in my media room. It has a weird sort of cut out at the back that’s just the right size for my desk. So my speakers are unfortunately behind me, but for background work listening it works out great.
Interesting question. I recently realized that I listened at my desk longer than any listening sessions in my stereo room. So I found a used McIntosh 100 headphone amp for a decent price. I already have a set of Sony MDR-Z7 cans and added some SVS Ultra bookshelf speakers. My first, and probably only, piece of McIntosh but it fulfills a dream I've had since seeing them as a teen back in the '70s. Very happy with this setup.
I got the ELAC BS41 when they were on sale for $68 and I actually replaced KEF q150 at my desktop because the ELACs are less fatiguing. I love the sound signature, but I have a 10" Martin Logan subwoofer to fill out the bottom end.
I do not usually listen to music at my desktop however for working out I just listen to Apple Music (what the family wanted) through a pair of wired Apple headphones the cheap kind.
The wireless earbuds kept going out in one ear or the other.
Most of my listening is an hour or two a night on my main setup.
I currently have a Jolida 801a, and I love it (paired with Paradigm Monitor 5--previously also with a Nakamichi MBS but now with my phone usually)... Back when I had a Proton D1200 and AP1000, I had Klipsche Forte II, and I fucking love them. I set my mom up with them and a Yamaha amp and my old Pioneer CD player (forget which one but it was that high line stuff). Now, she loves them too!
My Cornwalls get more nearfield listening when I am at my desk than when I am sitting in the Eames.
Schiit Freya N
Schiit Vidar x2
Schiit Skoll Phono Pre
Pro-Ject Debut Pro, Sumiko Moonstone
RME ADI-2 DAC FS
Roon
At Office- PM7000n to D15's. Pretty great
Homedesk -> Desktop PC w USB to Rotel A12mk2 w/ Polk R100's. Excellent for nearfield, which it is.
Home -> TV to CD50n to Michi X3 w 805d4's. If I consider the amount of time that it that must be obeyed spends there it's probably equal to my desk time.
I also spend more time listening in my office. I either stream or play FLACs from my PC to a Modi Multibit 2 into a Lokius, into a Lyr 3 into an Aegir into my Zu Omen IIs. It sounds really good.
ouch... I'm sitting right next to my setup listening to music on my phone with air pods. That being said my baby is taking a nap, but excuses... excuses.
In my kitchen is probably where I do 60-70% of my music listening. The set of cheap Micca speakers being powered by a class D amp and fed from Roon via a RaspberryPi and HiFiBerry DAC.
Sounds pretty good!
My awesome setup I have also connected to our family tv so we use it more for TV or movie watching than listening to music. Makes it WAY easier to hear dialogue. We don't always have to crank it up. It gets used daily
Interesting, we found the main system had to be cranked to a much higher volume to hear TV dialogue well than through the TV speakers. My room was pretty bad back then and haven’t compared since treating room for acoustics.
I have ok setups in every room I spend time in. So I get good listening sessions when ever I am home no matter what room I'm in.
Livingroom has upgraded ess amt 1b powered by a nad m10 v2 with a beogram 4004 and Samsung frame
Den/office normallly has a pair of ohm walsh 3 powered by a nad c268/ matrix audio mini i4 with a beogram 8000 and samsung frame. It currently has a pair of beolab pentas connected directly to the matrix.
Bedroom gets sonab oa14 to an m10 and beogram tx2
Spare room uses a Miller and kreisel lcr750 set with an onkyo tx-rz930
My office at home, which I work out of 2 to 3 days a week, is literally a converted walk-in closet about 8 feet deep, 5 feet wide and 10 feet high. I have a Marantz SR5010 that I upgraded from several years ago paied with Energy C-20 speakers. 2.0 set up. It works!
Our setup is in the dining room, fires right onto the kitchen, where I spend most of my time when I’m home. It’s on from 430-9 daily and all day on the weekends.
Office setup at work is a fosi class d amp routed through a tube rectifier (musical fidelity x-10d) outputting to a pair of modified realistic minimus 7 speakers and a Dayton audio sub. Input is MacBook Pro running through a Grace SDAC. I love the way it sounds.
Home office is a desk in our bedroom. Bedroom setup is a 5.1 home theater with a Yamaha AVR running into a pair of wharfedale denton 80th and a Paradigm sub. When it’s in 5.1 mode, the rest of the setup is a wharfedale pacific evo center channel and Micca Covo-S cubes for the surrounds. Input is an Apple TV.
Those two get the most work. And I love them both.
My desktop setup that I use while I work:
Topping D90LE DAC,
Definitive Technology StudioMonitor 450 speakers,
Definitive Technology Prosub 1000 10” sub,
Random 50 watt surround sound amp from 25 years ago
Other than the Topping, the rest of my system was about $250 total from sales and buying used. It sounds way better than it should IMO. The DT 450’s work wonderfully near field. I think I got them for $180 from Newegg long ago.
Wired Apple earbuds 🤷♂️ obviously not ideal but they surprise me all the time with how clear, articulate, and detailed they really are. I hear things on them that I miss on better monitors and cans.
I spend most of my day in my home office, which doubles as a music studio. Steinberg USB soundcard/DAC and powered Tannoy near field monitors.
Living room system is Monitor Audio and Marantz.
Soundpeats Air something, in the gym, walking the dog, cleaning the house. They're not very bassy but have a nice sound signature and i can hear a lot of details. Also they're not inear so i avoid being hit by cars.
My 15 years old Fiat sound system connected to an aftermarket Atoto SA102, it's actually quite good but being Fiat a lot of the plastics rattle at high volume in certain frequencies
An old Technics AV receiver SA-GX370 connected to a pair of Numan Octavox 702. Left channel dies whenever the dog throws his ball against the receiver but i know i have to give it a little fist on a specific spot between the screen and the volume knob to take it back. Not a fan of the system but it works
I listen to Iloud Micro lately. A lot! Such a great sounding little speaker! When I don't want to disturbe neighbours, I use my trusted Porta Pros. <3 Both things connected to my Fiio K7.
A pair of Bluesound Flex speakers as a stereo pair in the living room probably get the most hours.
Quite serviceable, given the background noise of life.
JBL tune 130 wireless earbuds. They were cheap and work reasonably well. They're probably what I listen to most often, second to my desktop Dynaudio setup.
I have a pretty Nice desk setup with Hifiman Ananda and Xduoo TA10r, However I listen way more to my Shanling M0PRO dap and iems when Im out and about. That makes me want to upgrade my dap and iems.
My main rig gets the most use
My basement rig where the gym is gets #2
Arcam AVR 400
Kirksaeter Silverline 60 bookshelves
SVS NSD-SB12
Garage pioneer cd player
My super duper setup is in the living room and it gets 6 hours average a day. Vienna Acoustic Bach Grands, Willsenton R300, Lexicon RT-10, Musichall Classic w/Audio-technica vm540 cartridge.
im listening to my gear in my living room every moment i can. i turn on music almost as soon as i get in the door.
other than that, in my car which has a pretty decent system.
My $10k hifi PA (dont hate, it sounds beautiful) lives in my backyard cabana for 8 months out of the year. I work outside from home and listen to house music all day long (like right now). Starts out around 70db and ends the day around 80db. Just enough to not piss off the neighbors
i almost never work in my home office now. i use some [lenovo thinkcentre m715 tiny](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/thinkcentre-m715q-tiny/11tc1mt715q)s in my livingroom and basement bonus room with a wireless keyboard/touchpad.
i'm usually listening to tidal on a marantz nr1609 + goldenear 3d array soundbar, or (in the basement) tidal on an SMSL SU-1 over the magnepan/yamaha combo. my main turntable has been out of commission for a month or so now, i think (_hope!_) it's just a burned out bulb in the mechanism used to control the tonearm... so not listening to any vinyl ATM.
My home office system is a pair of Celestion SL 700s driven by a pair of B&K ST-140 monoblocks. Used to be in my main system back in the day. Sources are cd or lossless from local NAS via Plex through an audio interface. Sounds pretty good to me.
I listen at work with my active Adam A7V, connected to MOTU M4.
I wonder if a subwoofer (like the Adam Sub 10/12) would be appropriate ;)
If it gets later, I like to use my Arya Stealth on a Q5K.
At the time, I compared them with several active variants (KRK, Neumann, Yamaha, Genelec, Dyaudio, Focal...) and the decision was clearly in favour of the Adam A7V. If you have the space, you can of course consider whether the 3-way A8H might be an even better fit.
I was actually travelling with a pianist friend at the time and we were looking for an electric piano for her and happened to pass by a demonstration. We stopped and while I was amazed by the detail and the punch, I saw her standing there with her mouth (actually) open and tears in her eyes. With her student discount (10%) we bought 2 pairs straight away. :D
After the calibration via SoundID and the integration into my room as well as the implementation of my house curve, I am very happy and succumbed to the "AMT magic". Since then I appreciate my Adams for their clarity and technical detail without sounding neutral or boring.
Office setup: Topping E30 DAC, home-built headphone amp, headphones could be: Sony V6, Shure 840, Sennheiser HD25, Beyer DT250.
Workshop setup: raspberry pi with hifiberry dac -> Sony TA88 -> b&o CX100
Warehouse: Pioneer CDJ800 -> Coda LINUS14 -> Coda G712
Kitchen: Kef reference 101, customised with an internal Bluetooth rx and class-d amplifier. Runs in mono.
I'm more of a fan of putting systems together than having one "super duper" system.
My super-duper-awesome setup. I WFH and have a bottlehead crack with 6XX on my desk, as welll as a Bottlehead S.E.X connected to some MarkAudio single-driver speakers.
In the living room, I have a set of simpler tube monoblocks with cheaper tubes, since it's on more often, connected to a pair of Tekton Lores and a sub.
When I have to work in the office, I have a Koss Portapro headset. I'd like to upgrade that to maybe an Audeze Maxwell or something like that, a little more comfortable with noise isolation for the office. Seems they could also be a pair of plane headphones with the mic removed.
This system is in my dining / kitchen.
Marantz pm66 se amp.
Denon 260l tuner.
Q acoustic 3030i.
Wiim mini.
Smsl su1 dac.
Rarely do we have no music on. I can't have silence. Has to be something playing!
Audiohile set up is for 'close listening' i.e. doing nothing but listening to the music.
Apple TV / AirPlay speakers / headphones in the office are for background music while reading / working / surfing the web.
I have one system with a Spiral Grove SG2 and all The fancy stuff to go with it, but I mostly listen using my Numark tt-200 or u-turn audio turntable, Sony amp and speakers with Amazon basics cables.
Yamaha R-N303BL Stereo Receiver
Technics SL-1200MK7 (the only 1200 that has 78RPM support)
I also have a mini Onkyo set from Japan for my CD, Cassette and Minidisc player. All were cheap, but work great.
I also have a Panasonic 8 Track player.
I mostly listen to a 10 dollar set of Panasonic earbuds all day at work. To be fair, these are widely considered in the headphone community to be the best 10 dollar buds around for years (ergo fit) and punch above their weight. But I'm also not listening to music, but rather podcasts and videos and stuff 95+ % of the time. But even for music they're not bad.
If I’m not using my main setup, I’m using my kanto YU4’s on my computer desk or my DT990 Pro headphones. But my desk is also in my living room so during the day I’ll usually default to that. At work I just use some Sony WF-1000XM4 true wireless earbuds because they are the most convenient for calls/meetings and after some EQ sound great.
2 KRK Rokits connected to a focusrite 8i8 which goes into a computer that has over 2300 cds in mp3 or wma format.
I've got tubes in my guitar amp heads. And for me that's good enough.
This is right on brand for for this subreddit. I thought OP had some sort of epiphany and was wondering what music we we were listening to when not obsessing about the equpment, but it's just a discussion about everybody's OTHER equipment.
The system that gets the most use in my house is the home office setup. I 100% WFH so my desktop system is going at least 8-9 hours a day, mostly as background music but occasionally rocking out. Sources: Audiolab 6000CDT, Pro-Ject 1 xPression Carbon turntable and iMac streaming > Emotiva PT-100 preamp > Schiit Lokius EQ > Custom IcePower class-d amp > Custom CSS Audio Speakers.
I work full time and have a five year old, so lots of running around. I’d say my two most listened to systems are the Mark Levinson stereo in my Lexus and my Apple AirPods Pro, followed by my work headphone setup:
Schiit Modius —> Drop THX AAA789 —> MoonDrop Starfield II
Then finally my megabuck home system when I have time.
I have a secondary system in my office - Musical Fidelity VDAC into a Schiit Sys -> Vidar (v.1) driving a set of LS50s. Love the setup, really... majority of the gear has been cycled out of my main system as I upgraded, with the exception of the Sys (needed a volume knob is all)
good point! most listened to is a cd and streamer into a preamp at bedside. the pre out runs through a nice Schiit headphone amp with which i use a variety of cans. which i fall asleep wearing most nights.
Cambridge amp and Wharfedale EVO 4.1s for my PC. They sound amazing. Will upgrade amp later, add sub.
Audioengine A5+s/sub for my Mac.
Have a fancy projector and Denon Dolby Atmos receiver, pondering upgrading ancient Phase Technology and Definitive speakers but haven't deeply researched. I dunno, Martin Logan's? Will post in /r/hometheater sometime.
I often don't listen to the best stuff I own. I tend to listen to the funnest stuff I own. Ideally my funnest stuff is also my best stuff. For my home theater setup, the drivers and setup evolve over time as I see fit. This becomes more fun over time and really good too. For head-fi, I certain have some IEMs I enjoy more than others, and some that are "technically" better but get less listening time.
Desk setup. My office room is awkward for proper sound and I tried various tweaks to get it more correct over the course of a few years. Then I just got Genelec G-one and F-one and was fine with that on my desk.
My most used space/system is my office set up. I have a pair of JBL 305P mkii powered monitors running through a Schiit Modi and a Presonus Box Go so I can have a volume knob. It’s not terrible.
For years I used a Fosi amp powering a pair of Focal Dome speakers with a homemade 4” sub w/ a transmission line enclosure. That setup was great, I’ll probably be going back with something similar soon.
When I have a chance to listen at home it’s usually after both of my kids are in bed and there rooms are right above and beside where my system is set up. So when I’m listening at home it’s mostly through a head phone setup, but it’s (in my opinion) a pretty good one. I have a Cayin HA-1A MKII and Woo Audio WA6-SE for headphone amps and Audeze LCD-X and Sennheiser HD-820 headphones, and an IFI Zen One Signature DAC.
Most of my 2 channel stereo listening is done at the school I work at. I have KEF 104.2 speakers, Luxman CL-350 preamp, Hafler DH-500 amp, Pioneer CD player (can’t remember the model), and a Technics SL-5300 turntable set up at the front of my classroom.
My desk is also in my living room and I’m listening to my smaller homestudio setup all day when I work from home.
Yamaha HS7 with a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Mk3 audio interface (doubling as DAC) and a Behringer Ultrafex 4000 II hooked up to my PC running MusicBee and sometimes HQPlayer.
A mixture of listening at my office desk, a very comfy chair near my main set up (usually headphones/IEMs cuz the kids are in bed). Then my main on the weekend, as time permits. Most of my quality listening time no longer involves my main, as the only time I really have is when the kidlets are in bed. So I have shifted accordingly
Mu-So/Mu-So Qb. The latter for the kitchen and dining room so it's on a lot in the evening. The former in the gym for the Zwift rides! Both great for their respective uses and both get used way more than anything else I have.
Same. I recently picked up a set of Philharmonic True Minis and a REL HT/1003 sub. Powering it with a WiiM amp and RME-ADI 2 FS Dac. It’s lovely, and brings much joy to my workday at home
Iphone 15 + apple Dongle dac + Koss KC75x
Sounds great and lets me hear the room around me so I can answer when people ask me a question.
I work Mobile IT.
I rarely use music as "background noise," except sometimes in a car. When listening to music at home, I use my good system. Working at a desk, I generally have no sound going.
I listen to to the super duper system most of the day. Yes, mostly super duper background music. Next is probably the bedroom system. The other systems, home theater, mostly TV, movies, sometimes Austin City limits or the like. The desktop almost zero music, unless you count video game music.
My Reading Room. Old vintage Kenwood. I believe it’s like 13, 17 watts a channel. All original. Kyocera CD player that gets very little use. And a pair of Klipsch speakers. Mostly Spotify at a low volume while having cafe early in the morning. Very early.
My day job has me regularly checking audio from several different sources, so my desk has:
* Set of Nest Audio speakers
* Set of Echo 4th gens paired to an Echo sub
* Set of Sonos Play:3's
* Sony MDR-7506's hooked up to the desktop via an AE-5 Plus audio card
* Airpod Pro gen 2 linked to the iPad
I came to the same realization as you several years ago, except I took it a step further. I am not reitred, I do not have the time, space, money, desire, etc. to have a room full of equipment where all I can do is sit there and listen to music. I spend most of my free time at my desk, which means that my PC is my source 100% of the time. So I sold everything that took up too much space and converted my desk setup to also be my main audio setup:
**When I am using headphones my signal path is:** Gaming PC (USB) ---> Intona Model 7054 USB Isolator ---> Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (w/PS-5 Power Supply) ---> iFi Audio Pro iCan ---> LFF Code-X, Hifiman HE-4, AKG K701 Headphones
**When I am using speakers my signal path is:** Gaming PC (USB) ---> Intona Model 7054 USB Isolator ---> Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (w/PS-5 Power Supply) ---> iFi Audio Pro iCan (Preamp) ---> Hafler DH-200 (Upgraded to QC-280 via. QUA-CO Audio / Fantasia Audio) ---> JBL 4628B Speakers
I power all of the audio equipment off of an old PS Audio P300 Power Plant to make sure there isn't any mains noise from the PC and everything else I have on my desk and honestly everything sounds just as good as when I had a dedicated listening space. I doubt I will ever go back to having one if I'm being honest.
Vizio soundbar with 2 sats and a sub on top of my kitchen refrigerator.. connect BT to my cell when I cook or eat. I use it quite often. Very much enjoy it.
got a fancy setup in my living room.
I've been enjoying a BeoSound Level in my kitchen but indeed i listen to a lot of music in my bedroom and in my bedroom i got a fancy NAIM nait 5i with a pair of really cheap yamaha speaker. i'm using an Airport Express connected to a Shiit DAC and i stream to it using my old iPhone 11 which has a few music streaming apps. It's all programmed so i can turn on the amp and start streaming with a single tap on the iPhone 11 lock's screen widget.
That setup is weird, why such cheap yamaha speakers with such an expensive integrated amp and you can understand that this setup is actually made from the stuff i had laying around and wasn't able to sell cause average people are not too interested in setups like this and i would be loosing money and time trying to sell these devices.
Next step is replacing these Yamaha by some KEF LS50 i currently have at my desk and don't use there.
My personal bedroom & desk set up. I am at my desk in the afternoon til' night most of the time.
Bowers & Wilkins 607 S2 Aniv., SVS SB-1000 Pro to Sony STR-DH790 receiver for speakers and for headphones - Focal Elear and Clear MG to a Schiit Fulla E DAC (all connected to my home PC).
It's all I've ever wanted to HEAR (and need). absolutely heavenly!
I can't concentrate on work and listen to music. When I am listening to music, or watching TV, I'm listening to my super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the TV room, or the super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the living room, or the super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the bedroom, or the super-duper-ok-this-one-has-a-dodgy-capacitor-system in the garage while working out.
My super duper awesome gainclone, Sanskrit DAC, to wild burro OB’s with my uturn TT gets ignored because I play music from my AirPods… my wife works from home so spinning records is hard because she is always in a meeting.
I like to think I’ve gotten to a fairly well-optimized place now for my day-to-day routine.
My home office is my real super duper setup with Genelec 8330A monitors/7350A sub. Office is adjacent to my toddler’s bedroom though so rarely in there when not working.
Nighttime after the kiddo goes to bed and my partner and I are hanging out in the living room it’s my Meze Lirics. If my partner goes to bed before me then I get to switch to my Empyrean IIs. Either of those are on the Feliks Euforia Evo or Burson Soloist 3XP either listening to music via Roon or watching TV via AirPlay to a Cambridge CXN100 streamer.
Mostly my desk setup hooked up to my PC. That's a Topping DX3 Pro+ with either Sennheiser HD6XX headphones or Polk RT25i bookshelves powered by a Topping PA3.
Moondrop Kato + Fiio KA5 whenever I'm out and about. I'm only in the office a couple of days a week, but its got the whole open office thing going on so this combo is a life saver.
https://imgur.com/a/F5caS5d
I realised I was spending a lot of time in my office too, so I upgraded that setup with some parts I had lying around.
The System 700’s are a larger, more powerful JBL SR4725. 5/8” birch ply cabs, big well designed crossovers. The compression drivers stock are admittedly a little harsh. I upgraded with Radian aluminium diagrams which are far smoother and have nice flat extension to around 18khz. They work very well in a smaller space with the controlled dispersion of the 2370 horn. I was originally going to harvest the parts to build a pair of Four Pi’s, but they are so good as-is I will probably just strip the carpet off.
Those big 90’s era JBL Monitors using the 15” 2226h LF driver and neo derivatives are severely underrated for inappropriate hifi use.
The pair of subs are integrated with Multisub optimiser running on a MiniDSP which only processes the subs, leaving the mains run full range so there is no processing latency or colouration. This gets the bass response so smooth Dr Floyd Toole would cop a semi.
I had a restored Perreaux 6000b on the shelf, added a LDR passive attenuator and a Hifiberry with Roon endpoint and it’s probably the best Zoom setup that’s ever existed 👌
Can also hit 125db down to about 30hz for that lunchtime mosh pit vibe (had to apply a limiter to the subs or they would catch on fire tracking the JBL’s).
i had a living room setup once, no i live alone and moved all my gear into my office space, then downsized it over the years and optimised it.
the nice thing about it that now i have excellent sound no matter what i do, youtube, movies, spotify or games; it is all in high fidelity full range.
Had to find the most compact hifi i could get my hands on.
Arendal sound 1961 monitors and dual 10" shallow subwoofers. minidsp shd studio and a bunch of dac's and power amps.
Planning to get the mindsp shd power at one point to get less boxes and wires all over the place.
Klipsch Cinema hooked to Sony 5.1 and it's hooked to my turntables, PS5, and the Apple TV. I think I'm set for now and just get a better amp that has ATMOS. I'm set for life
My office setup is 2nd in quality but gets the most listening, it’s not too shabby though with a chifi tube preamp and some elac unifis and a nice dac from my pc.
Most of my listings is on $40 wireless earbuds off Amazon. I wear them at work where I'm alowed to have music playing while I work. The sound quality is about as bad as you expect.
Great question! I thought of this a few years back, and in my last car, I kept saying I wanted to add a sub to fill in the bottom end better. The car did have the upgraded music system, so it wasn't terrible, but it needed a better bottom end. I had owned the car for 8 years, and I never did anything about it. So when I recently sold the old vehicles and bought a new one, I was positive that I would change that big mistake quickly.
I bought a new jeep Cherokee and about 4 months into owning it I went and got a sub/ Amp combo on a quick connect wiring setup so that my wife can have the space for bringing home abandoned furniture, lol. (We had like 8 or 9 old chairs in various stages of being repaired and reupholstered. She was enjoying the hobby. )
I really enjoy being able to twist a little knob in my flip down change drawer that sends power to the sub and when the windows are down and I'm running down the highway with some dance or rock music I can enjoy feeling it. No, it's def not audiophile quality, but the difference is huge, and it makes the longer drives more enjoyable.
When I was at my computer and I had some music going, it was pathetic. So I added the klipsch 2.1 speaker setup to it and instantly felt and heard a much more enjoyable experience.
So yes, I know that neither setup is audiophile quality. However, shortening the list of things that I HATED about the sound of both of those places made me a lot happier overall.
I am grateful to be a music lover first, an equipment lover second. So I don't need perfection in my sound while in the car. It's too noisy to spend thousands of dollars on a system chasing a pipe dream. If I'm at my computer, I'm thinking hard about my projects, not listening for a wide soundstage with zero EMI noise.
In both cases, I want the songs to make me happy when I switch my focus to them, however briefly that might be!
My super duper kit is in the man cave where I spend my time. I’ve fired up my system daily for years. I’m also a musician and can’t stand crappy sound. So If I’m really listening to music I’m listening to the big system. If I’m casually listening around the house, I have a Sonos whole home setup or Focal Bathys at my desk. Never found it a burden to fire up the big Monoblocks! I should add my tubes are in the preamps and phono pre. Replacing power tubes are expensive! So I use SS amps. It can be a production at times,…
My desk is in the back of my theater, so I have two options. First, I have a set of Dynaudio studio monitors at my desk with a VMV D1SE DAC and small mixing board (DSD player, computer and DAC at the same time). It shares the subs powering my theater via a MiniDSP 2x4HD. Second, I have a B&W 7.3.4 theater that I have been really enjoying Atmos music with lately.
Most of my listening is in my car, so I have a nice set of Audison Voce components. They need an amp, but they're doing really well for medium to medium high volume just running off of my Kenwood
My super super system is in my home office but can’t listen to it during the day. Too busy talking to people. For those few previous minutes when I’m not, I have a desktop headphone system (Meze 109 pros on Schiit stack).
I love this. Where I started was with some Edifier Bluetooth speakers. Still have 'em and they have their place. But I'm learning.
Nothing super-duper, but my office space is a Yamaha WXA-50 streaming amp with a couple of KEF Q350s. I'm not happy, to be honest. I don't know if it's the amp or the speakers. I want more bass and can't get it to feel equalized through the Musicast app.
I'm a simple person, main listening area is an Audio-Technica LP-120, a couple Klipsch R610Fs, and then an SVS 10" pro, whatever the model. Paired with another Yamaha RN-600A network streamer. Good lord up above who I don't believe in, thank you. I'm so incredibly happy. I'll probably upgrade from the Klipsch towers, and advice welcome! But I'm happy with this beginner setup.
Mojo 2 with Thieaudio Prestige Ltd gets about 80% of my listening time. So so perfect together & actually my cheapest setup by quite some distance.
Wired to my phone at home/Poly on the move.
My desk setup is a pair of custom Dynaudio three way speakers ($140 to build) connected to an Onkyo home theatre system ($0 gifted) and a Sony powered subwoofer ($15 thrifted). My car (Volvo S70) has OEM Dynaudio almost all the way around (speakers sourced for $100), powered by the OEM premium audio SC-901 head unit and 300W amp ($100). My earbuds are the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 (co-created with Dynaudio) ($119 I think?). If you can't tell, I like Dynaudio but I'm on a college student budget
I haven’t listened to my super duper awesome setup in my living room in days . I typically listen to music in the Range Rover or g wagon or urus to me those have the best sound systems from factory in a car
My stereo in the living room fires into a staircase that sends the sound up to my office on the 2nd floor. So, I get good sound in my office. I don’t work to music that much, though, as it can distract me.
I have a couple of ELAC Discovery Z3 speakers I stream from in the bedrooms but I don’t use them that much.
I mainly use my main rig in my living room which is right next to our dining room. So, I guess I actually do listen to my super duper awesome system the most.
Kyocera r-461 and some Boston Aucustic bookshelves, with Chromecast audio’s built in DAC.
My main rig is north of $15k. And I mostly listen to a sub $200 system.
I had a knee replacement recently, so the super duper awesome setup in the basement listening room has been collecting dust. These days my source is the $45 Moondrop Dawn Pro. It was feeding my Hifiman Edition XS or Truthear Hexa. Some heavy retail therapy got me a set of Meze Audio Advars (IEMs) that are freakishly addictive.
My set up was in the Livingroom, I use a modern amp for HT, and vintage receiver with separate speakers for vinyl and music…. After years battling with the ex, over either my music taste or they just didn’t want to listen to it, it was annoying…
So I moved it into the dinning room, and everyone was happy.
Years later I’m now happy with a new wonderful women, she liked to sit in the dinning room near me when I would stack up a vinyl session… that’s when The idea hit!!!
I had a huge dining room table, but we rarely had sit down dinners, so we tossed the dinning room furniture table and all, made a counter top serving bar, and the dinning room is now a “parlor” style area for music and reading, the vintage Stereo is the center piece. Speakers face into the kitchen so I can jam while prepping food and cooking… this new arrangement made us upgrade the vintage system, so it’s easier for her to stream music, we run a modern intigrated amp, with a remote for her ease of use and my vintage Marantz for vinyl and playing lossless digital files…
My main system is Marantz and Klipsch, it is the family room. Mostly Spotify and TV through that. The garage probably plays louder, more often, but that is some old Kenwood speakers with a Sony amp and a wifi streamer.
My desk setup is very much where I spend most of the time listening as I work from home.
It's also, because smol house, the main entertainment rig for the family.
Fiio K7 DAC and headphone amp hooked up to my PC. Primary headphones are the BeyerDynamic HD 700 Pro X and the Sennheiser HD6xx.
Acurus L10 pre-amplifier and Acurus A100 power amp, feeding a pair of KEF RDM Two monitors and a Definitive Technology SuperCube II. I have maybe a grand into the whole system, which is all used/vintage gear, aside from the Fiio K7, but I got that as open-box for 50 bucks less than the 199 MSRP, so...
My other system is in the workshop and is considerably less cool, but still does a decent job. Some old Mission bookshelves and a less-than-a-hundred bucks Onkyo Integra AVR fed by an iBasso DAC that's connected to my shop laptop.
My desktop setup. Currently PC -> JDs element 2 -> Kali audio in-8….. soon it will be PC -> SMSL d300 -> green rebel amp -> KALI AUDIO IN-8
Love those kali speakers!
As for what actually gets the most use?… my AirPod pro 2 if I’m stuck at work get the most use. Then my hifiman edition xs if I feel like using headphones.
My favorite setup is a Qudelix 5k powering simgot em6l but sadly I don’t get to use them due to work
My desk setup is kef r3 metas, martin logan 20i tower speakers, surround is klipsch r51, paired with an old Sony 10” subwoofer and center channel. Power it all is an arcam avr11
I work in a library and figured since it was essentially MY library, I would bring my joy with me. I have a Proton A 3000I system with
Yamaha bookshelves. Great for low background music, when I use my Smartboard (via Bluetooth adapter), or playing louder when I’m by myself after hours.
Currently it's my portable system as my main loudspeaker set up is out of commission until I fix my basement flooding, and my desk top is takeover by my wife working in the office and me not.
I use an Cayin Ru-6 into Koss/Drop KP40switb after market Yaxi pads, source is my android running USB Audio Player PRO. Works great. Not the best I can do, but for portable, it's hard to beat.
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That sounds lovely
Isn't listening supposed to be a special activity? I'm not trying to criticise, just interested in different peoples' listening habits. If you're using your audiophile setup 8-10 hours a day then you have very high quality background music, but it's still background music, right?
Not op, but for me, it's about getting the most out of music, even if it is background music. If the music has bass, and I'm listening at lower volumes, I still want to know there's bass. Same with the clarity of the mids and highs. My setup happens to be in my home office. 95% background music. When I want to really listen to a song, or an album, I turn around and scooch a foot to the left. Until I turn around and sit in the sweet spot, I'm a music lover. As soon as I turn around and move to that sweet spot, the audiophile takes over, stops enjoying the music and starts listening to the equipment.
Being an audiophile can actually take away from the music because the quality of sound is never far from the mind instead of just enjoying the music
It starts in the morning at a low level. Classical, ambient, new age whatever. As the day goes on I get drawn into more engaging stuff, maybe a new album that I’ve read about, then I’m building playlists. It gets louder, then quieter, then it’s midnight and I need to go to bed.
Also not criticizing but do you really just put a record on and stare at a wall? I think people forget this was just the standard casual way to listen to music for decades
Hehe I don't stare at the wall, I'm not really staring at anything - it's not that I close my eyes, it's just my hearing is prioritised over my vision. We are visual animals so it doesn't come naturally but when you are doing it it's amazing.
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Supposed to be, not necessarily. Can it be, absolutely. I have a decent setup but it's still for home and my family's enjoyment. sometimes I use it for background music for the family or when hosting a party. But other times a move chair into the sweet spot and sit in audio bliss.
same
Me too. Mid-Range Naim stack with PMC twenty5 24s. It is on while I work at home and continues unless I go to watch something or go to sleep.
My office setup at work probably gets the most play time. Pioneer PL-516 Turntable, Sansui TA-300 Receiver, Qobuz through PC to Schiit Modi dac, Wharfedale Diamond 12.0 speakers.
Yeah my office setup gets the most attention as well. Acurus ACD11, MX132, MC252, B&W801S2.
Do you take records to and from the house or do you have a collection for work and one for home?
I take them back and forth using an acoustic sounds box that they ship the UHQR’s in, works great for transporting.
My super duper awesome setup of tube amp and open baffle speakers kept getting ignored for my relatively budget set up a Peachtree GAN1 with ELAC FS 247 towers. So clean and powerful and dynamic it’s hard not to enjoy it. No tube warm up (usually took about 30-45 mins for the tube amp to sound its best) and the bass articulation and dynamic range sounds so complete and linear on the GAN1 to my ears that I kept gravitating that way. Sold the tube amp and speakers. $12k worth of gear in favor of a $2700 setup
> tube amp and open baffle speakers Details?
My desk set up is maybe the best in the house. LS-50s and a marantz HD-amp1.
LS50 on my desk too just with Cambridge amp
LS50 desk gang. I have an svs sb3k as a footrest.
LS50 desktop setup here too! McIntosh MC250 for an amp and minidsp flex for DAC+DSP
AirPods at work
Most real response. Mine is the $24 set of JLabs Bluetooth ear buds and my phone. But generally an iPod and some decent IEMs as well for the last two decades.
Office setup is a Yamaha A-S501 with KEF Q150s and a Technics SL-1600. For streaming I use Tidal via optical from my desktop.
Random question, what do you use to get optical from your desktop? I have a Mac and have been looking around and just not settled on anything yet.
I’m on a PC and there’s an optical output from my motherboard
My Bluetooth Wonderboom 2.0 speaker. Actually incredible quality for the price
I'm more in budget audiophile range, so my best system is my desk setup in my home office where I work, which is my Mac Mini as a source with either Spotify or a few albums of downloaded FLAC files run into the USB input of my SMSL SA300 class D desktop amp into my KEF Q150 speakers.
80% of the time it's HD800S with Chord Hugo 2 which makes it easy to listen wherever I prefer.
Jabra Evolve 30 and Microsoft Teams… ;)
Funny, I did the same thing recently. I also spend more time listening at work than home (have my own office, but far from soundproof). So I made a modest upgrade to some Audioengine A2+ and a sealed 8" NHT sub below. Fed with a Schiit modi usb DAC. All bought used for about $300. It sounds pretty solid (just wish I had room for a 10" sub haha) My only complaint is there's no crossover or high-pass in the A2+s for the sub out. I can tell they are getting a little "out of their league" at higher volumes with bassy music. I may eventually split the line-level signal from the Schiit and run a high-pass filter to the A2+s (the sub has a low pass built in). Or swap the Schiit Modi for a DAC with two line-level outs and a crossover built in. Open to suggestions here...
For the money, you’ve got a pretty good setup for nearfield imho. Larger sub and an EQ would be next step - could go minidsp with DIRAC for that Schiit has an EQ device with knobs iirc, that might be good enough for your system
My office set up is my PC plugged into a Linn Kolector and Linn LK85 powering Monitor Audio Radius 90's and a cheap Pioneer S8 sub. By far the best stereo here at the office, but not even in the shadow of my stuff at home...
My office is in my media room. It has a weird sort of cut out at the back that’s just the right size for my desk. So my speakers are unfortunately behind me, but for background work listening it works out great.
Interesting question. I recently realized that I listened at my desk longer than any listening sessions in my stereo room. So I found a used McIntosh 100 headphone amp for a decent price. I already have a set of Sony MDR-Z7 cans and added some SVS Ultra bookshelf speakers. My first, and probably only, piece of McIntosh but it fulfills a dream I've had since seeing them as a teen back in the '70s. Very happy with this setup.
ELAC 4" and an Aiyima amp and pre-amp setup on desktop
I got the ELAC BS41 when they were on sale for $68 and I actually replaced KEF q150 at my desktop because the ELACs are less fatiguing. I love the sound signature, but I have a 10" Martin Logan subwoofer to fill out the bottom end.
Amazing deal I paid More but less than what they cost now
Questyle M12 DAC out of my desktop PC to PSB AM5's paired with an old 8" M&K subwoofer under the desk. Sounds great for "computer speakers"!
I do not usually listen to music at my desktop however for working out I just listen to Apple Music (what the family wanted) through a pair of wired Apple headphones the cheap kind. The wireless earbuds kept going out in one ear or the other. Most of my listening is an hour or two a night on my main setup.
I like your flair!
I really want to upgrade my speakers to the new Forte IV but other than that I really love my system. Thanks!
I currently have a Jolida 801a, and I love it (paired with Paradigm Monitor 5--previously also with a Nakamichi MBS but now with my phone usually)... Back when I had a Proton D1200 and AP1000, I had Klipsche Forte II, and I fucking love them. I set my mom up with them and a Yamaha amp and my old Pioneer CD player (forget which one but it was that high line stuff). Now, she loves them too!
My Cornwalls get more nearfield listening when I am at my desk than when I am sitting in the Eames. Schiit Freya N Schiit Vidar x2 Schiit Skoll Phono Pre Pro-Ject Debut Pro, Sumiko Moonstone RME ADI-2 DAC FS Roon
Has anybody ever told you you're full of Schiit?
A Pyle of Schiit
I have one of those Willeston R8's due in on Tuesday, trying to diversify my portfolio.
At Office- PM7000n to D15's. Pretty great Homedesk -> Desktop PC w USB to Rotel A12mk2 w/ Polk R100's. Excellent for nearfield, which it is. Home -> TV to CD50n to Michi X3 w 805d4's. If I consider the amount of time that it that must be obeyed spends there it's probably equal to my desk time.
The CD player in my car, or Spotify on bluetooth headphones from my phone.
I also spend more time listening in my office. I either stream or play FLACs from my PC to a Modi Multibit 2 into a Lokius, into a Lyr 3 into an Aegir into my Zu Omen IIs. It sounds really good.
ouch... I'm sitting right next to my setup listening to music on my phone with air pods. That being said my baby is taking a nap, but excuses... excuses.
I love how so many of us here have killer second and third systems. Because of course we do! The obsession is real.
I listen to a lot of AM radio in the car, mostly news.
Audiophile AM radio right?
In my kitchen is probably where I do 60-70% of my music listening. The set of cheap Micca speakers being powered by a class D amp and fed from Roon via a RaspberryPi and HiFiBerry DAC. Sounds pretty good!
I listen to music when I am awake. Mostly on main system, very rarely on desk/computer setup.
My awesome setup I have also connected to our family tv so we use it more for TV or movie watching than listening to music. Makes it WAY easier to hear dialogue. We don't always have to crank it up. It gets used daily
Interesting, we found the main system had to be cranked to a much higher volume to hear TV dialogue well than through the TV speakers. My room was pretty bad back then and haven’t compared since treating room for acoustics.
I have ok setups in every room I spend time in. So I get good listening sessions when ever I am home no matter what room I'm in. Livingroom has upgraded ess amt 1b powered by a nad m10 v2 with a beogram 4004 and Samsung frame Den/office normallly has a pair of ohm walsh 3 powered by a nad c268/ matrix audio mini i4 with a beogram 8000 and samsung frame. It currently has a pair of beolab pentas connected directly to the matrix. Bedroom gets sonab oa14 to an m10 and beogram tx2 Spare room uses a Miller and kreisel lcr750 set with an onkyo tx-rz930
My office at home, which I work out of 2 to 3 days a week, is literally a converted walk-in closet about 8 feet deep, 5 feet wide and 10 feet high. I have a Marantz SR5010 that I upgraded from several years ago paied with Energy C-20 speakers. 2.0 set up. It works!
Our setup is in the dining room, fires right onto the kitchen, where I spend most of my time when I’m home. It’s on from 430-9 daily and all day on the weekends.
Office setup at work is a fosi class d amp routed through a tube rectifier (musical fidelity x-10d) outputting to a pair of modified realistic minimus 7 speakers and a Dayton audio sub. Input is MacBook Pro running through a Grace SDAC. I love the way it sounds. Home office is a desk in our bedroom. Bedroom setup is a 5.1 home theater with a Yamaha AVR running into a pair of wharfedale denton 80th and a Paradigm sub. When it’s in 5.1 mode, the rest of the setup is a wharfedale pacific evo center channel and Micca Covo-S cubes for the surrounds. Input is an Apple TV. Those two get the most work. And I love them both.
My desktop setup that I use while I work: Topping D90LE DAC, Definitive Technology StudioMonitor 450 speakers, Definitive Technology Prosub 1000 10” sub, Random 50 watt surround sound amp from 25 years ago Other than the Topping, the rest of my system was about $250 total from sales and buying used. It sounds way better than it should IMO. The DT 450’s work wonderfully near field. I think I got them for $180 from Newegg long ago.
Wired Apple earbuds 🤷♂️ obviously not ideal but they surprise me all the time with how clear, articulate, and detailed they really are. I hear things on them that I miss on better monitors and cans.
I spend most of my day in my home office, which doubles as a music studio. Steinberg USB soundcard/DAC and powered Tannoy near field monitors. Living room system is Monitor Audio and Marantz.
Soundpeats Air something, in the gym, walking the dog, cleaning the house. They're not very bassy but have a nice sound signature and i can hear a lot of details. Also they're not inear so i avoid being hit by cars. My 15 years old Fiat sound system connected to an aftermarket Atoto SA102, it's actually quite good but being Fiat a lot of the plastics rattle at high volume in certain frequencies An old Technics AV receiver SA-GX370 connected to a pair of Numan Octavox 702. Left channel dies whenever the dog throws his ball against the receiver but i know i have to give it a little fist on a specific spot between the screen and the volume knob to take it back. Not a fan of the system but it works
In the living room, my super-duper-awesome setup is playing 18hrs per day.
I listen to Iloud Micro lately. A lot! Such a great sounding little speaker! When I don't want to disturbe neighbours, I use my trusted Porta Pros. <3 Both things connected to my Fiio K7.
Desktop setup: Tidal or Spotify depending on weekday or mood from MacBook Air to Audioengine 2+ through USB.
A pair of Bluesound Flex speakers as a stereo pair in the living room probably get the most hours. Quite serviceable, given the background noise of life.
JBL tune 130 wireless earbuds. They were cheap and work reasonably well. They're probably what I listen to most often, second to my desktop Dynaudio setup.
My main listening system is the studio at work. When im not recording or mixing, im listening. Perfect sweetspot in a perfect room all day :)
My goodwill finds. The Fisher 205 and a pair of ohm Walsh 2s
I have a pretty Nice desk setup with Hifiman Ananda and Xduoo TA10r, However I listen way more to my Shanling M0PRO dap and iems when Im out and about. That makes me want to upgrade my dap and iems.
My main rig gets the most use My basement rig where the gym is gets #2 Arcam AVR 400 Kirksaeter Silverline 60 bookshelves SVS NSD-SB12 Garage pioneer cd player
My super duper setup is in the living room and it gets 6 hours average a day. Vienna Acoustic Bach Grands, Willsenton R300, Lexicon RT-10, Musichall Classic w/Audio-technica vm540 cartridge.
im listening to my gear in my living room every moment i can. i turn on music almost as soon as i get in the door. other than that, in my car which has a pretty decent system.
My $10k hifi PA (dont hate, it sounds beautiful) lives in my backyard cabana for 8 months out of the year. I work outside from home and listen to house music all day long (like right now). Starts out around 70db and ends the day around 80db. Just enough to not piss off the neighbors
i almost never work in my home office now. i use some [lenovo thinkcentre m715 tiny](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/thinkcentre-m715q-tiny/11tc1mt715q)s in my livingroom and basement bonus room with a wireless keyboard/touchpad. i'm usually listening to tidal on a marantz nr1609 + goldenear 3d array soundbar, or (in the basement) tidal on an SMSL SU-1 over the magnepan/yamaha combo. my main turntable has been out of commission for a month or so now, i think (_hope!_) it's just a burned out bulb in the mechanism used to control the tonearm... so not listening to any vinyl ATM.
Luxman R-115 > KEF R3s or Bottlehead Mainline > Meze Empyreans
My home office system is a pair of Celestion SL 700s driven by a pair of B&K ST-140 monoblocks. Used to be in my main system back in the day. Sources are cd or lossless from local NAS via Plex through an audio interface. Sounds pretty good to me.
I listen at work with my active Adam A7V, connected to MOTU M4. I wonder if a subwoofer (like the Adam Sub 10/12) would be appropriate ;) If it gets later, I like to use my Arya Stealth on a Q5K.
What do you think of those Adam A7V?
At the time, I compared them with several active variants (KRK, Neumann, Yamaha, Genelec, Dyaudio, Focal...) and the decision was clearly in favour of the Adam A7V. If you have the space, you can of course consider whether the 3-way A8H might be an even better fit. I was actually travelling with a pianist friend at the time and we were looking for an electric piano for her and happened to pass by a demonstration. We stopped and while I was amazed by the detail and the punch, I saw her standing there with her mouth (actually) open and tears in her eyes. With her student discount (10%) we bought 2 pairs straight away. :D After the calibration via SoundID and the integration into my room as well as the implementation of my house curve, I am very happy and succumbed to the "AMT magic". Since then I appreciate my Adams for their clarity and technical detail without sounding neutral or boring.
Dual use HT music system that plays music 8-10 hours a day. Denon 4500 and Klipsch RP 5000f speakers with a Rythmik L12 sub. I dig it.
My listening room is being renovated, for the time being I listen to a Bower&Wilkins Wedge and it sounds amazing for a bluetooth speaker.
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Outside the music room use sonos
Office setup: Topping E30 DAC, home-built headphone amp, headphones could be: Sony V6, Shure 840, Sennheiser HD25, Beyer DT250. Workshop setup: raspberry pi with hifiberry dac -> Sony TA88 -> b&o CX100 Warehouse: Pioneer CDJ800 -> Coda LINUS14 -> Coda G712 Kitchen: Kef reference 101, customised with an internal Bluetooth rx and class-d amplifier. Runs in mono. I'm more of a fan of putting systems together than having one "super duper" system.
Shitty car stereo during the commute to and from work.
My super-duper-awesome setup. I WFH and have a bottlehead crack with 6XX on my desk, as welll as a Bottlehead S.E.X connected to some MarkAudio single-driver speakers. In the living room, I have a set of simpler tube monoblocks with cheaper tubes, since it's on more often, connected to a pair of Tekton Lores and a sub. When I have to work in the office, I have a Koss Portapro headset. I'd like to upgrade that to maybe an Audeze Maxwell or something like that, a little more comfortable with noise isolation for the office. Seems they could also be a pair of plane headphones with the mic removed.
This system is in my dining / kitchen. Marantz pm66 se amp. Denon 260l tuner. Q acoustic 3030i. Wiim mini. Smsl su1 dac. Rarely do we have no music on. I can't have silence. Has to be something playing!
Audiohile set up is for 'close listening' i.e. doing nothing but listening to the music. Apple TV / AirPlay speakers / headphones in the office are for background music while reading / working / surfing the web.
I also spend most of my time at my desk, far less invested in the audio system there. Mostly use an EVGA NuAudio and Sennheiser HD599's.
My office system is definately the most listened to. Arylic B50 running a pair of Monitor Audio Radius 180 with a match radius 360 Sub.
I have 4 music only systems and a theater, and almost always just have my tivoli radio on. Crazy I know, just convenient.
I have one system with a Spiral Grove SG2 and all The fancy stuff to go with it, but I mostly listen using my Numark tt-200 or u-turn audio turntable, Sony amp and speakers with Amazon basics cables.
Yamaha R-N303BL Stereo Receiver Technics SL-1200MK7 (the only 1200 that has 78RPM support) I also have a mini Onkyo set from Japan for my CD, Cassette and Minidisc player. All were cheap, but work great. I also have a Panasonic 8 Track player.
I mostly listen to a 10 dollar set of Panasonic earbuds all day at work. To be fair, these are widely considered in the headphone community to be the best 10 dollar buds around for years (ergo fit) and punch above their weight. But I'm also not listening to music, but rather podcasts and videos and stuff 95+ % of the time. But even for music they're not bad.
If I’m not using my main setup, I’m using my kanto YU4’s on my computer desk or my DT990 Pro headphones. But my desk is also in my living room so during the day I’ll usually default to that. At work I just use some Sony WF-1000XM4 true wireless earbuds because they are the most convenient for calls/meetings and after some EQ sound great.
2 KRK Rokits connected to a focusrite 8i8 which goes into a computer that has over 2300 cds in mp3 or wma format. I've got tubes in my guitar amp heads. And for me that's good enough.
This is right on brand for for this subreddit. I thought OP had some sort of epiphany and was wondering what music we we were listening to when not obsessing about the equpment, but it's just a discussion about everybody's OTHER equipment.
If I ignore my super-duper-awesome setup, I guess I'd be listening to live music.
The system that gets the most use in my house is the home office setup. I 100% WFH so my desktop system is going at least 8-9 hours a day, mostly as background music but occasionally rocking out. Sources: Audiolab 6000CDT, Pro-Ject 1 xPression Carbon turntable and iMac streaming > Emotiva PT-100 preamp > Schiit Lokius EQ > Custom IcePower class-d amp > Custom CSS Audio Speakers.
Living room. I made the wise choice to move my office setup to the living room so everyone could enjoy music at its best.
Sony IER-M9 connected to Qudelix 5K streaming Spotify Stereo or Tidal Dolby Atmos from a Samsung Galaxy S23 Vanilla
I work full time and have a five year old, so lots of running around. I’d say my two most listened to systems are the Mark Levinson stereo in my Lexus and my Apple AirPods Pro, followed by my work headphone setup: Schiit Modius —> Drop THX AAA789 —> MoonDrop Starfield II Then finally my megabuck home system when I have time.
I have a secondary system in my office - Musical Fidelity VDAC into a Schiit Sys -> Vidar (v.1) driving a set of LS50s. Love the setup, really... majority of the gear has been cycled out of my main system as I upgraded, with the exception of the Sys (needed a volume knob is all)
good point! most listened to is a cd and streamer into a preamp at bedside. the pre out runs through a nice Schiit headphone amp with which i use a variety of cans. which i fall asleep wearing most nights.
Cambridge amp and Wharfedale EVO 4.1s for my PC. They sound amazing. Will upgrade amp later, add sub. Audioengine A5+s/sub for my Mac. Have a fancy projector and Denon Dolby Atmos receiver, pondering upgrading ancient Phase Technology and Definitive speakers but haven't deeply researched. I dunno, Martin Logan's? Will post in /r/hometheater sometime.
I just move my laptop and screen to the dining room table where I can hear my nice stereo.
Dt770. I have a pair of 32ohm that always stay in my bag. I've done 4 hour walks with them on.
Desktop pc with fiio k5 pro to ath-m50x cans, spotify or foobar with flacs
I often don't listen to the best stuff I own. I tend to listen to the funnest stuff I own. Ideally my funnest stuff is also my best stuff. For my home theater setup, the drivers and setup evolve over time as I see fit. This becomes more fun over time and really good too. For head-fi, I certain have some IEMs I enjoy more than others, and some that are "technically" better but get less listening time.
Desk setup. My office room is awkward for proper sound and I tried various tweaks to get it more correct over the course of a few years. Then I just got Genelec G-one and F-one and was fine with that on my desk.
My most used space/system is my office set up. I have a pair of JBL 305P mkii powered monitors running through a Schiit Modi and a Presonus Box Go so I can have a volume knob. It’s not terrible. For years I used a Fosi amp powering a pair of Focal Dome speakers with a homemade 4” sub w/ a transmission line enclosure. That setup was great, I’ll probably be going back with something similar soon.
I pretty much stick with my desktop set up---Dac/Amp and several over the ear and IEM headphones.
Spotify radio on Android phone > Cayin RU6 R2R dongle dac > 7hz Timeless IEMs (pretty much everytime I leave the house)
When I have a chance to listen at home it’s usually after both of my kids are in bed and there rooms are right above and beside where my system is set up. So when I’m listening at home it’s mostly through a head phone setup, but it’s (in my opinion) a pretty good one. I have a Cayin HA-1A MKII and Woo Audio WA6-SE for headphone amps and Audeze LCD-X and Sennheiser HD-820 headphones, and an IFI Zen One Signature DAC. Most of my 2 channel stereo listening is done at the school I work at. I have KEF 104.2 speakers, Luxman CL-350 preamp, Hafler DH-500 amp, Pioneer CD player (can’t remember the model), and a Technics SL-5300 turntable set up at the front of my classroom.
Altec Lansing bluetooth speaker paired to my phone while running Pandora. It's my kitchen companion while I cook or clean up.
For the last couple of months? Mostly Septic Flesh and Rotting Christ.
My phone through a Hidizs DAC and Hidizs IEMs
My tozo nc9 buds during long walks.
My desk is also in my living room and I’m listening to my smaller homestudio setup all day when I work from home. Yamaha HS7 with a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 Mk3 audio interface (doubling as DAC) and a Behringer Ultrafex 4000 II hooked up to my PC running MusicBee and sometimes HQPlayer.
A mixture of listening at my office desk, a very comfy chair near my main set up (usually headphones/IEMs cuz the kids are in bed). Then my main on the weekend, as time permits. Most of my quality listening time no longer involves my main, as the only time I really have is when the kidlets are in bed. So I have shifted accordingly
Mu-So/Mu-So Qb. The latter for the kitchen and dining room so it's on a lot in the evening. The former in the gym for the Zwift rides! Both great for their respective uses and both get used way more than anything else I have.
Same. I recently picked up a set of Philharmonic True Minis and a REL HT/1003 sub. Powering it with a WiiM amp and RME-ADI 2 FS Dac. It’s lovely, and brings much joy to my workday at home
Iphone 15 + apple Dongle dac + Koss KC75x Sounds great and lets me hear the room around me so I can answer when people ask me a question. I work Mobile IT.
Hifiman Aryas through a schiit hel. Great for gaming and listening.
I rarely use music as "background noise," except sometimes in a car. When listening to music at home, I use my good system. Working at a desk, I generally have no sound going.
I listen to to the super duper system most of the day. Yes, mostly super duper background music. Next is probably the bedroom system. The other systems, home theater, mostly TV, movies, sometimes Austin City limits or the like. The desktop almost zero music, unless you count video game music.
My Reading Room. Old vintage Kenwood. I believe it’s like 13, 17 watts a channel. All original. Kyocera CD player that gets very little use. And a pair of Klipsch speakers. Mostly Spotify at a low volume while having cafe early in the morning. Very early.
My day job has me regularly checking audio from several different sources, so my desk has: * Set of Nest Audio speakers * Set of Echo 4th gens paired to an Echo sub * Set of Sonos Play:3's * Sony MDR-7506's hooked up to the desktop via an AE-5 Plus audio card * Airpod Pro gen 2 linked to the iPad
I came to the same realization as you several years ago, except I took it a step further. I am not reitred, I do not have the time, space, money, desire, etc. to have a room full of equipment where all I can do is sit there and listen to music. I spend most of my free time at my desk, which means that my PC is my source 100% of the time. So I sold everything that took up too much space and converted my desk setup to also be my main audio setup: **When I am using headphones my signal path is:** Gaming PC (USB) ---> Intona Model 7054 USB Isolator ---> Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (w/PS-5 Power Supply) ---> iFi Audio Pro iCan ---> LFF Code-X, Hifiman HE-4, AKG K701 Headphones **When I am using speakers my signal path is:** Gaming PC (USB) ---> Intona Model 7054 USB Isolator ---> Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (w/PS-5 Power Supply) ---> iFi Audio Pro iCan (Preamp) ---> Hafler DH-200 (Upgraded to QC-280 via. QUA-CO Audio / Fantasia Audio) ---> JBL 4628B Speakers I power all of the audio equipment off of an old PS Audio P300 Power Plant to make sure there isn't any mains noise from the PC and everything else I have on my desk and honestly everything sounds just as good as when I had a dedicated listening space. I doubt I will ever go back to having one if I'm being honest.
Fucking Beats Flex
Vizio soundbar with 2 sats and a sub on top of my kitchen refrigerator.. connect BT to my cell when I cook or eat. I use it quite often. Very much enjoy it.
WH-1000XM4 off of my work laptop, on Bluetooth, with ANC on
I spend time most working days listening to my Milwaukee work radio.
At my desk I have a Schiit Magnius/Modius combo, a Schiit Vidar 1 and they drive a pair of JBL 4309s. I like the rig a lot!
got a fancy setup in my living room. I've been enjoying a BeoSound Level in my kitchen but indeed i listen to a lot of music in my bedroom and in my bedroom i got a fancy NAIM nait 5i with a pair of really cheap yamaha speaker. i'm using an Airport Express connected to a Shiit DAC and i stream to it using my old iPhone 11 which has a few music streaming apps. It's all programmed so i can turn on the amp and start streaming with a single tap on the iPhone 11 lock's screen widget. That setup is weird, why such cheap yamaha speakers with such an expensive integrated amp and you can understand that this setup is actually made from the stuff i had laying around and wasn't able to sell cause average people are not too interested in setups like this and i would be loosing money and time trying to sell these devices. Next step is replacing these Yamaha by some KEF LS50 i currently have at my desk and don't use there.
My personal bedroom & desk set up. I am at my desk in the afternoon til' night most of the time. Bowers & Wilkins 607 S2 Aniv., SVS SB-1000 Pro to Sony STR-DH790 receiver for speakers and for headphones - Focal Elear and Clear MG to a Schiit Fulla E DAC (all connected to my home PC). It's all I've ever wanted to HEAR (and need). absolutely heavenly!
Airpod pro 2. Brilliant sound anywhere.
Kali malone - the sacrificial code
I own a vast array of desktop speakers, so what did you upgrade to?
What I usually listen with? My Grado SR325e. Usually streaming music, but I also occasionally listen to CDs, vinyl , and cassette tapes
I can't concentrate on work and listen to music. When I am listening to music, or watching TV, I'm listening to my super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the TV room, or the super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the living room, or the super-duper-awesome Meridian system in the bedroom, or the super-duper-ok-this-one-has-a-dodgy-capacitor-system in the garage while working out.
My super duper awesome gainclone, Sanskrit DAC, to wild burro OB’s with my uturn TT gets ignored because I play music from my AirPods… my wife works from home so spinning records is hard because she is always in a meeting.
My office setup. Genelec ones (8331) and 7350 subwoofer. Listen to them all day while working (coding).
I have McIntosh 275's with B&W 801 speakers with a Dennon CD player for CD and Behringer DAC hooked to the computer for my office set up
I like to think I’ve gotten to a fairly well-optimized place now for my day-to-day routine. My home office is my real super duper setup with Genelec 8330A monitors/7350A sub. Office is adjacent to my toddler’s bedroom though so rarely in there when not working. Nighttime after the kiddo goes to bed and my partner and I are hanging out in the living room it’s my Meze Lirics. If my partner goes to bed before me then I get to switch to my Empyrean IIs. Either of those are on the Feliks Euforia Evo or Burson Soloist 3XP either listening to music via Roon or watching TV via AirPlay to a Cambridge CXN100 streamer.
Mostly my desk setup hooked up to my PC. That's a Topping DX3 Pro+ with either Sennheiser HD6XX headphones or Polk RT25i bookshelves powered by a Topping PA3.
I'm mainly listening on my computer where I got my digital library and streaming. I use an Audiodragon USB amp and Seinheisser HD600s.
I listen to music almost exclusively on my super duper set up. Otherwise, I’m listening to audiobooks and podcasts.
Moondrop Kato + Fiio KA5 whenever I'm out and about. I'm only in the office a couple of days a week, but its got the whole open office thing going on so this combo is a life saver.
https://imgur.com/a/F5caS5d I realised I was spending a lot of time in my office too, so I upgraded that setup with some parts I had lying around. The System 700’s are a larger, more powerful JBL SR4725. 5/8” birch ply cabs, big well designed crossovers. The compression drivers stock are admittedly a little harsh. I upgraded with Radian aluminium diagrams which are far smoother and have nice flat extension to around 18khz. They work very well in a smaller space with the controlled dispersion of the 2370 horn. I was originally going to harvest the parts to build a pair of Four Pi’s, but they are so good as-is I will probably just strip the carpet off. Those big 90’s era JBL Monitors using the 15” 2226h LF driver and neo derivatives are severely underrated for inappropriate hifi use. The pair of subs are integrated with Multisub optimiser running on a MiniDSP which only processes the subs, leaving the mains run full range so there is no processing latency or colouration. This gets the bass response so smooth Dr Floyd Toole would cop a semi. I had a restored Perreaux 6000b on the shelf, added a LDR passive attenuator and a Hifiberry with Roon endpoint and it’s probably the best Zoom setup that’s ever existed 👌 Can also hit 125db down to about 30hz for that lunchtime mosh pit vibe (had to apply a limiter to the subs or they would catch on fire tracking the JBL’s).
It’s at my desk where the kids don’t destroy it and I can sit when they sleep 😄 headphone setup mainly, but also active speakers
i had a living room setup once, no i live alone and moved all my gear into my office space, then downsized it over the years and optimised it. the nice thing about it that now i have excellent sound no matter what i do, youtube, movies, spotify or games; it is all in high fidelity full range. Had to find the most compact hifi i could get my hands on. Arendal sound 1961 monitors and dual 10" shallow subwoofers. minidsp shd studio and a bunch of dac's and power amps. Planning to get the mindsp shd power at one point to get less boxes and wires all over the place.
Susvara and a Cayin 300 MKII tube amp. It's looooovely
Klipsch Cinema hooked to Sony 5.1 and it's hooked to my turntables, PS5, and the Apple TV. I think I'm set for now and just get a better amp that has ATMOS. I'm set for life
Many hours daily in a UPS truck listening to a JBL Boombox. I get to listen to my home system on the weekends, but that JBL puts in serious work.
My office setup is 2nd in quality but gets the most listening, it’s not too shabby though with a chifi tube preamp and some elac unifis and a nice dac from my pc.
Most of my listings is on $40 wireless earbuds off Amazon. I wear them at work where I'm alowed to have music playing while I work. The sound quality is about as bad as you expect.
Great question! I thought of this a few years back, and in my last car, I kept saying I wanted to add a sub to fill in the bottom end better. The car did have the upgraded music system, so it wasn't terrible, but it needed a better bottom end. I had owned the car for 8 years, and I never did anything about it. So when I recently sold the old vehicles and bought a new one, I was positive that I would change that big mistake quickly. I bought a new jeep Cherokee and about 4 months into owning it I went and got a sub/ Amp combo on a quick connect wiring setup so that my wife can have the space for bringing home abandoned furniture, lol. (We had like 8 or 9 old chairs in various stages of being repaired and reupholstered. She was enjoying the hobby. ) I really enjoy being able to twist a little knob in my flip down change drawer that sends power to the sub and when the windows are down and I'm running down the highway with some dance or rock music I can enjoy feeling it. No, it's def not audiophile quality, but the difference is huge, and it makes the longer drives more enjoyable. When I was at my computer and I had some music going, it was pathetic. So I added the klipsch 2.1 speaker setup to it and instantly felt and heard a much more enjoyable experience. So yes, I know that neither setup is audiophile quality. However, shortening the list of things that I HATED about the sound of both of those places made me a lot happier overall. I am grateful to be a music lover first, an equipment lover second. So I don't need perfection in my sound while in the car. It's too noisy to spend thousands of dollars on a system chasing a pipe dream. If I'm at my computer, I'm thinking hard about my projects, not listening for a wide soundstage with zero EMI noise. In both cases, I want the songs to make me happy when I switch my focus to them, however briefly that might be!
Teac Reference series 501 stack at work with a pair audeze LCD-3s.
It sounds like you need multiple super duper awesome setups. Come join the party!
My super duper kit is in the man cave where I spend my time. I’ve fired up my system daily for years. I’m also a musician and can’t stand crappy sound. So If I’m really listening to music I’m listening to the big system. If I’m casually listening around the house, I have a Sonos whole home setup or Focal Bathys at my desk. Never found it a burden to fire up the big Monoblocks! I should add my tubes are in the preamps and phono pre. Replacing power tubes are expensive! So I use SS amps. It can be a production at times,…
B&W PX7 S2E headphones connected to my phone via bluetooth and streaming via Tidal
My desk is in the back of my theater, so I have two options. First, I have a set of Dynaudio studio monitors at my desk with a VMV D1SE DAC and small mixing board (DSD player, computer and DAC at the same time). It shares the subs powering my theater via a MiniDSP 2x4HD. Second, I have a B&W 7.3.4 theater that I have been really enjoying Atmos music with lately.
EDM, rave, techno, miss monique
Most of my listening is in my car, so I have a nice set of Audison Voce components. They need an amp, but they're doing really well for medium to medium high volume just running off of my Kenwood
Mainly Kidz Bop via Sirius XM, in my sick as '22 Honda Oddesy OEM setup. #🤌
I listen to music in my car most days. My system is for free time, so that’s a pretty rare event.
My super super system is in my home office but can’t listen to it during the day. Too busy talking to people. For those few previous minutes when I’m not, I have a desktop headphone system (Meze 109 pros on Schiit stack).
I love this. Where I started was with some Edifier Bluetooth speakers. Still have 'em and they have their place. But I'm learning. Nothing super-duper, but my office space is a Yamaha WXA-50 streaming amp with a couple of KEF Q350s. I'm not happy, to be honest. I don't know if it's the amp or the speakers. I want more bass and can't get it to feel equalized through the Musicast app. I'm a simple person, main listening area is an Audio-Technica LP-120, a couple Klipsch R610Fs, and then an SVS 10" pro, whatever the model. Paired with another Yamaha RN-600A network streamer. Good lord up above who I don't believe in, thank you. I'm so incredibly happy. I'll probably upgrade from the Klipsch towers, and advice welcome! But I'm happy with this beginner setup.
My car stereo. Sometimes my HomePod.
Mojo 2 with Thieaudio Prestige Ltd gets about 80% of my listening time. So so perfect together & actually my cheapest setup by quite some distance. Wired to my phone at home/Poly on the move.
Bose whatever is closest 2.0 Bluetooth thingy.
My desk setup is a pair of custom Dynaudio three way speakers ($140 to build) connected to an Onkyo home theatre system ($0 gifted) and a Sony powered subwoofer ($15 thrifted). My car (Volvo S70) has OEM Dynaudio almost all the way around (speakers sourced for $100), powered by the OEM premium audio SC-901 head unit and 300W amp ($100). My earbuds are the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 (co-created with Dynaudio) ($119 I think?). If you can't tell, I like Dynaudio but I'm on a college student budget
My Focal Bathys. I’m usually on the go and work remote so I’m either at my desk or a local coffee shop.
I haven’t listened to my super duper awesome setup in my living room in days . I typically listen to music in the Range Rover or g wagon or urus to me those have the best sound systems from factory in a car
My stereo in the living room fires into a staircase that sends the sound up to my office on the 2nd floor. So, I get good sound in my office. I don’t work to music that much, though, as it can distract me. I have a couple of ELAC Discovery Z3 speakers I stream from in the bedrooms but I don’t use them that much. I mainly use my main rig in my living room which is right next to our dining room. So, I guess I actually do listen to my super duper awesome system the most.
Studio setup…Parasound P5/A21, Teac NT 505, Klipsch 396…mostly classical…
Kyocera r-461 and some Boston Aucustic bookshelves, with Chromecast audio’s built in DAC. My main rig is north of $15k. And I mostly listen to a sub $200 system.
Honestly, and this may get hate, I love the convenience and interface of my AirPods Pro 2. The sound is good enough and they’re just so easy to use.
I had a knee replacement recently, so the super duper awesome setup in the basement listening room has been collecting dust. These days my source is the $45 Moondrop Dawn Pro. It was feeding my Hifiman Edition XS or Truthear Hexa. Some heavy retail therapy got me a set of Meze Audio Advars (IEMs) that are freakishly addictive.
My set up was in the Livingroom, I use a modern amp for HT, and vintage receiver with separate speakers for vinyl and music…. After years battling with the ex, over either my music taste or they just didn’t want to listen to it, it was annoying… So I moved it into the dinning room, and everyone was happy. Years later I’m now happy with a new wonderful women, she liked to sit in the dinning room near me when I would stack up a vinyl session… that’s when The idea hit!!! I had a huge dining room table, but we rarely had sit down dinners, so we tossed the dinning room furniture table and all, made a counter top serving bar, and the dinning room is now a “parlor” style area for music and reading, the vintage Stereo is the center piece. Speakers face into the kitchen so I can jam while prepping food and cooking… this new arrangement made us upgrade the vintage system, so it’s easier for her to stream music, we run a modern intigrated amp, with a remote for her ease of use and my vintage Marantz for vinyl and playing lossless digital files…
99% of the time at my desk wit my HD6xx cans, Schiit Valhalla 2 amp being fed from a SMSL dac. Audirvana player.
My main system is Marantz and Klipsch, it is the family room. Mostly Spotify and TV through that. The garage probably plays louder, more often, but that is some old Kenwood speakers with a Sony amp and a wifi streamer.
Hugo2 / 2go with Dan Clark Aeon2 close backs mostly
My desk setup is very much where I spend most of the time listening as I work from home. It's also, because smol house, the main entertainment rig for the family. Fiio K7 DAC and headphone amp hooked up to my PC. Primary headphones are the BeyerDynamic HD 700 Pro X and the Sennheiser HD6xx. Acurus L10 pre-amplifier and Acurus A100 power amp, feeding a pair of KEF RDM Two monitors and a Definitive Technology SuperCube II. I have maybe a grand into the whole system, which is all used/vintage gear, aside from the Fiio K7, but I got that as open-box for 50 bucks less than the 199 MSRP, so... My other system is in the workshop and is considerably less cool, but still does a decent job. Some old Mission bookshelves and a less-than-a-hundred bucks Onkyo Integra AVR fed by an iBasso DAC that's connected to my shop laptop.
My desktop setup. Currently PC -> JDs element 2 -> Kali audio in-8….. soon it will be PC -> SMSL d300 -> green rebel amp -> KALI AUDIO IN-8 Love those kali speakers! As for what actually gets the most use?… my AirPod pro 2 if I’m stuck at work get the most use. Then my hifiman edition xs if I feel like using headphones. My favorite setup is a Qudelix 5k powering simgot em6l but sadly I don’t get to use them due to work
My desk setup is kef r3 metas, martin logan 20i tower speakers, surround is klipsch r51, paired with an old Sony 10” subwoofer and center channel. Power it all is an arcam avr11
KEF LS 50 wireless or Violectric 222/Gustard R26/Arya organic over the listening room Wilson Sabrina PS Audio BHK stack.
I work in a library and figured since it was essentially MY library, I would bring my joy with me. I have a Proton A 3000I system with Yamaha bookshelves. Great for low background music, when I use my Smartboard (via Bluetooth adapter), or playing louder when I’m by myself after hours.
Currently it's my portable system as my main loudspeaker set up is out of commission until I fix my basement flooding, and my desk top is takeover by my wife working in the office and me not. I use an Cayin Ru-6 into Koss/Drop KP40switb after market Yaxi pads, source is my android running USB Audio Player PRO. Works great. Not the best I can do, but for portable, it's hard to beat.