Calling all audiophiles

[luke gtr]

Hi, just wondering if there are any other audio enthusiasts here?

I've been going through a phase recently,  upgraded speakers, amp, got a nice pair of headphones and now chasing a nice pair of IEMs.

Pic of my current speakers.

DALI euphonia ms5 and cs4.

Driven by NAD masters m17v2 pre pro and m27 amp.

Will eventually be home theatre and stereo music listening set up.

[GTSBoy]

I'm a frustrated audiophile. My "listening room" is also the big TV/movie room. So the stereo speakers are also the front pair for the surround. They are Ascension Summoners, by Adelaide Speakers.

The guy who runs Adelaide Speakers designed and built for a couple of the renowned speaker manufacturers that were based in SA back in the day.

The centre channel ends up looking a lot like yours. It's the same driver setup as this type

But I got him to put them into a sideways oriented cab the same size as the side/rears I got.

The fronts are flat down to ~20Hz, so I don't have a sub.

This is all driven by a very high end Pioneer receiver - so nice but nothing special. And worse, because the fronts can draw so much power at high volume levels, the bloody amp goes into self protection and shuts down if you turn it up too high. 8 ohm nominal can easily mean 6 and modern consumer oriented amplifiers are not as well reinforced on the supply side as they could be. I keep meaning to do something about it, but somewhat like my earlier obsession with DSLRs and Lenvy, I actively resisted dropping more money in there until the urge decreased.

If I keep listening to music at really high volume levels I'll just cut more notches in my hearing anyway. They one at 6kHz is bad enough - I need to behave myself now.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Mine is boring, have a pair of Mission 701 8" book shelves, hidden behind a 3m wide entertainment unit away from the kids, matching centre with rear Mission LX3 with 1x tweeter punched in already.

Sub (now with a blown amp) was something I built about 15 years ago. Has 1x Dayton 10" HF driver and 1x 500W O-Audio plate amp, enclosed in a 90L ported enclosure tuned to about 25hz. Goes pretty loud and you do get mild chest compressions but not enough.

Have updated the receiver since, I now run a Yamaha RX-V6A just purely for all the integration and shit with streaming services and e-ARC.

 

I do want to get this:

https://www.selby.com.au/price-promise/tonewinner-sw-d6000-subwoofer.html

 

Realistically without a potential divorce, this is better:

https://www.selby.com.au/price-promise/tonewinner-sw-d4000-subwoofer.html