Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and indeed to most of the things discussed on it. Such is my noobness that I'm not even sure if this post belongs under Hi-Fi and not something else. Thanks in advance for any replies, I'm sure you guys get sick of people asking this same question.
Things you should know:
- I would store my music on my pc as lossless files
- this is intended for my bedroom (about 3 by 4 metres)
- I listen to many different varieties of music, including rock, classical, dnb, ambient, so I don't want stupidly powerful bass
- My budget is probably about 500 pounds, but I'm aiming to spend more like 350-400
- I know you're not going to get anything incredible for that price but this is to see me through the next 5 or so years of uni before I can move out and hopefully make a more serious investment
- I don't want to buy studio monitors because I already have studio headphones (yes I know you shouldn't mix with headphones, just ignore) and I don't really enjoy listening to music out of them because they expose the worse mixes
- I would be interested in buying a subwoofer if it's worth it
So as far as I understand now, a good setup would involve buying a usb DAC which would then connect to either an amp + passive speakers or just some active speakers. Been looking at dacmagic100 and hrt music streamer.
I hope I've made it fairly easy for you guys to see what I'm after, and once again thanks for any advice and apologies for my noobness. Everyone's got to start somewhere right?
Things you should know:
- I would store my music on my pc as lossless files
- this is intended for my bedroom (about 3 by 4 metres)
- I listen to many different varieties of music, including rock, classical, dnb, ambient, so I don't want stupidly powerful bass
- My budget is probably about 500 pounds, but I'm aiming to spend more like 350-400
- I know you're not going to get anything incredible for that price but this is to see me through the next 5 or so years of uni before I can move out and hopefully make a more serious investment
- I don't want to buy studio monitors because I already have studio headphones (yes I know you shouldn't mix with headphones, just ignore) and I don't really enjoy listening to music out of them because they expose the worse mixes
- I would be interested in buying a subwoofer if it's worth it
So as far as I understand now, a good setup would involve buying a usb DAC which would then connect to either an amp + passive speakers or just some active speakers. Been looking at dacmagic100 and hrt music streamer.
I hope I've made it fairly easy for you guys to see what I'm after, and once again thanks for any advice and apologies for my noobness. Everyone's got to start somewhere right?