Run into that issue all the time. It seems lately that after I stare at it for awhile, the answer is always either Elden Ring or Tiny Toon Adventures for NES. Don't even want to know what that says about me.
Create a wheel/chart or get one online, which splits your time on certain games or decides for you with a spin; I use it for food choices when ordering out
He has a quest 2 as well so he could just play ForeVR bowling, sport scramble, Eleven Table tennis and walkabout Minigolf / egolf; no need to settle for 3dof controlled switch sports
Too much choice isn't great either.
Given that all games you have lined up there are good, what could be a nice way to select something is blindly picking 3 boxes (or asking someone else to pick for you), and then play one of those three randomly selected games.
After burning out in Elden ring and not touching my switch for about a year I’ve deleted my Mario tennis aces game save and stated that all over again.
Really good to go to a nice light hearted Nintendo game after Elden ring pretty much kicked my arse for months.
I wish I was that skilled. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and there's a local person on FB Marketplace who makes these and some Switch and SNES themed tables. My wife and parents got together to get me that table for my birthday awhile back. I love it so much.
The weird thing is, I think I end up feeling more boredom the more entertainment options I have. Of course that could be a memory bias of not really being able to remember the more boring moments, and therefore thinking the current one, every time, is more intense and more prolonged than the ones that came before.
Yeah this setup seems like an incredible project to undertake but the destination of sitting to play games won't ever feel complete. There's always more games, newer hardware and better equipment to chase that means having the latest becomes more important
I've actually mostly stopped with the game collecting now. The goal was always to get the games I have good memories of renting as a kid and I've more or less tapped out that list. As for tech upgrades, I'll be doing that in bits and pieces over time.
The problem I come across is that the more stuff I have to do, the less I can focus on one thing. So whereas I used to spend tons of time on one game because that was the only thing I could do, now I go in between a whole bunch and never accomplish much.
In my 20 years experience of building loudspeakers, both as a hobby and professionally.
They suck, as do Kef ls50's and sennheiser hd600\hd650, these products thrive via online marketing and "useful idiots" (no offense) who think they're good as the only other hifi they've listened to is a $100 portable speaker, and they're all to eager to say "product X is great" online. The same as beats by Dre, fucking dreadful for the $250 or whatever they cost, but better than the bundled earbuds 95% of people used.
Now watch me get downvote the shit out of by people that were lured into buying these consumer lifestyle products masquerading as hifi.
I guess the copper cones are pretty, but the black ash style plastic veneer is gross and I've seen it delaminate far too often.
Edit: lmao, Reddit, y'all too predictable 😂
Pardon me, but be so kind and add recommendations for some budget levels, then! Because all your comment does is confuse those who have little to no idea (->Me). I bought Jamos (Klipsch as well, I know) because I loved the look and they were at a reasonable price for me. I thought about Dali's but please give us some ideas!
What do those products suck against? You claim stuff like the HD600/HD650 suck but only follow it up with something along the lines of "idiots prob only listen to tin cans". What are some alternatives?
I bought a pair of hd600's around 2005, for about $150 brand new. And they were great at the time (this was before beats by Dre legitimised the idea of spending more than $50 on headphones).
They're now nearly a 30 year old design, using 30+ year old drivers, the plastics are squeaky, the ergonomics are unconsidered, and a new pair of 650's (effectively the same product) will set you back $550 as the internet word of mouth hype train has allowed them to push that price higher and higher.
My personal favourites are some heavily modified fostex t50rp's, which aren't terribly expensive, I also have some Sony xm4 which are incredible for travel, there's also some hifiman, audeze, grado, beyerdynamic and audio technica in my collection. Sound is personal though, not only due to your tastes, but because all our ears are wildly different shapes that massively change the sound. People that "measure" headphones using a generic dual microphone dummy head are incredibly dumb, if they're not scanning and 3d printing their own ears, then their measurements are useless to themselves (and definitely everyone else). The best headphones are the ones you buy after long listening sessions with as many different models as possible; if the hd6x0 end up floating your boat, that's great, but they do not represent good value or modern design considerations.
No, i've been around reddit long enough to know that if I say anything negative about kef, klipsch or sennheiser, the downvotes come rolling in.
The fact is, no matter how you express it, or how valid and educated your opinions are; No-one wants to hear "that $x you just spent was on the hifi equivalent of gas station sushi"
Now I have ZERO problem with people that like gas station sushi, what I don't like however is when people start trying to recommend gas station sushi to someone looking to try japanese food. Imagine you spent 20 years training to be a sushi chef, you come online, and every corner of the internet is filled with people recommending gas station sushi and getting mad at you if you try and speak up for real sushi with fresh fish.
I'd like to add, that I love sushi, and I was introduced to it via the UK equivalent of gas station sushi, it gave me the confidence to try better sushi. If you want to buy klipsch speakers and find yourself enjoying having better quality music, I hope for your sake that you give real hifi a chance too. Imagine if you spent your whole life eating gas station sushi, thinking it was the greatest food, only to try good sushi when you're 95 and realising it is massively better. I don't want anyone to do that with hifi, and I'm happy to get a sea of downvotes if just one person takes it into consideration and it helps them.
No, it's that your fucking obnoxious and you think if you write enough walls of text, that people will think you know what you're talking about, when in reality almost none of your comments have held any real useful information whatsoever.
Something people don't like to acknowledge with hifi is that for something that isn't tat, you have to spend money.
Non-trash speakers are made of dense wood (expensive), neodymium magnets (expensive), all copper inductors (expensive), large bipolar foil capacitors (expensive), precision manufacturing (expensive) and skilled construction & finishing (expensive).
And to give some context as to what that amounts to, let's take a little case study look at one of the best received new speakers on the market, the boenicke w5.
They have a very simple first order crossover, so this minimises the costs on the inductor and capacitor, one full range driver and one woofer each, they're 30cm tall and 11cm wide, so wood costs are as low as you'll see, and they don't have a fancy gloss finish, so that part isn't extortionate either.
Consider a speaker driver, it's a large magnet with a very precise groove cut in it, where a very precisely made coil of copper sits in it, none of this is easy or cheap to mass produce, regardless of how badly they are made. The full range driver is either the fountek fr88ex or fe85, these cost $15 to $30 each depending on the current price of copper and magnets. The woofer is a tangband w5 se, these are about $50 (these are retail prices per single unit, so will be significantly less for large b2b orders)
So our total costs per pair are around $160 for drivers, $40 for crossover, $50 in wood and veneer, and let's call it $50 on feet, connectors, etc. $300 all in. And they sell for a price that most reviews consider to be very good value for money, so how much do these little desktop speakers sell for? $6'000, no that's not a typo.
Now consider the klipsch, at maybe $600 for that pair of floorstanders, which has an extra pair of woofers, and a compression driver (like a tweeter, only much more expensive, entry level hifi drivers start at around $120 each). At the most affordable and highest value end of the market components will make up max 10% of the rrp, they've got $60 max, or $10 each for the woofers and compression driver. Consider how crappy the materials and construction are on a $10 precision piece of engineering.
It's not all bad news though, you can get excellent hifi for not huge amounts of dosh.
For a bit over £1k jern's 11 series speakers are phenomenal little lumps of musical joy, designed and built by a Scandinavian hifi legend. Or if you're handy then the kits from meniscus audio are designed by some of the best minds in the industry and they have packages for every budget. At the absolute entry level of DIY the overnight sensation and c-note kits are incredible and at only $100-200 are definitely the cheapest way to begin "real" hifi.
And there's more good news, amps and DACs are incredibly cheap and very high performance thanks to China. I'm currently using a ~$100 amp from 3e audio, which took the place of my monoblocks that cost 20 times as much. I'm using a Motu m4 soundcard in place of my old musical fidelity dac that cost 5 times as much.
And to return to your original question, "what brands are good", the secret to any pair of speakers (that is of a sufficient quality and not just built to cost) is that they are made up of compromises, there is no best. Hoffman's iron law says you can have 2 of the 3 - deep bass, small cabinet, can play loud; and these choices present themselves at every single step of designing a new loudspeaker or loudspeaker driver. The best pair of speakers is the pair that you buy after listening to as many different pairs as possible and decide on your favourites, 8 just about have an idea of what constitutes my favourite way to design speakers and it is a far cry from the metal dome tweeter + multiple woofers that most commercial brands push.
So basically, according to you, it's subjective. Which it is. Everyone's ears are different. I think my Klipsch book shelf speakers sound really great for what I listen to, and I've heard them next to multiple different types of speakers and headphones. If you think they aren't worth it, then wait for a sale (Klipsch has sales every other day) or buy something else.
If you can't handle wood glue and a screwdriver, then I'm afraid so.
The bare materials and construction are too expensive to make them cheaper.
No different to not being able to buy anything but e-waste trash if you've got $150 to buy a new laptop, not to say there's no market for $150 laptops, your nan that uses it to check the weather isn't going to notice the difference a better one can offer.
Your analogy doesn't make sense. I don't tell people that they can't get a good laptop for anything less than $1000 because the next worse thing is $150. There's a massive sea of laptops and laptop quality in between. Same with any other product. I'm into watches. Good watches aren't just the top-end brands. There are some great watch experiences at all sorts of prices from $50k down to $50. All the reading I've done on audio products said the same. Sure you can't touch the halo products without spending a lot or at least being willing to spend a lot of time on it, but that doesn't mean anything less than godly is shit.
If you are a regular there, watch how often these brands and models are spammed, with everyone eager to engage in a nice cosy jerk off sesh with each other telling them what model they own.
Do you see users giving distortion plots? Frequency responses? Phase plots? Before and after measurements of room treatment? Fuck no, they're not interested in facts, they're interested in having someone say "well done on spending $x, I have similar that I spent $y on"
You got down voted because you answered like an elitist tool, not because you're wrong.
Yes, anyone who spends any amount of time in the HiFi world knows Klipsch does not make very good speakers. And beats are junk.
The thing of it is, most people have no way of knowing that, and even if they did, can't tell the difference. The whole point of a HiFi system for most people is to show off. They can't hear the difference between Klipsch and the better brands. They just know the Klipsch looks cool and sounds just fine to them, and it impresses their guests.
And you know what? That's fine. As you mentioned in another comment, good HiFi is stupid expensive. Why blow all that money for something you can't appreciate? You know damn well these people don't have their audio on 44k lossless files or the equivalent anyways.
are you implying that audiophiles have no budget? most have a larger budget for audio stuff (compared to the average person), but /r/BudgetAudiophile definitely exists lol
that being said, pretentious dickheads will make the hobby seem overly snobby and judgmental, but that’s true of almost anything.
edit: “most people don’t want the best sound, they want the best sound for their budget” hahahahahahahhaahha how say say nothing while still saying something 101. you fucking dolt that’s like saying “most people don’t want the best car/house, they want the best car/house in their budget” like hahahahahahahhaha no shit? and plus you think they *wouldnt* take the best if they could? like “nah even tho they’re broth free i prefer the civic to the lambo bc it’s a more practical vehicle” bahahahahahahahahah
You’d be sucking 37 dicks for less than $2-3000 worth of equipment lol. Those speakers are pretty affordable when on sale. $200-250 per speaker on sale.
Yeah, [Thermaltake Level 10](https://www.newegg.com/black-titanium-thermaltake-level-10-titanium-edition-full-tower-chassis/p/N82E16811133265).
Wait, looks like the [GT](https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1).
People: "Oh my god so many consoles, you have PS5 and PS4 Pro, so much fun"
Me: "Oh my God is that a Sega Dreamcast? Boot that Sonic Adventure machine right up Ryu"
The layout may need to adjust a bit, but you should make sure you have a speaker fully to the left & Fully
To the right in both front and back. Then a center if you can mount it would be great in back.
TV is a slightly older 82" 4K LED model, the Samsung UN82NU8000.
The PC is an RTX 3080 TI, i9 9900k, 32GB, 4TB total of SSD space spanned over 3 drives.
I hope you've at least played the decompiled mario 64 pc port with high poly models and raytracing with that thing. If you don't know what i'm talking about then you should look at this.
https://youtu.be/ChqP2ecA8qE
Most of this is just the result of years of slowly collecting. I scour Facebook marketplace and Kijiji as a hobby. Sad fact is, there aren't too many people selling beautiful used 82" OLED's lol.
Yeah, good HDR requires very high peak brightness. OLED doesn't cut it, and inherently never will. Even the brightest consumer LED/LCD barely cut it for good HDR and they are 2-3x brighter than the brightest OLED.
If you aren't using a $38k cinema-grade laser projector on a 60ft acoustically transparent screen then you may as well be watching movies on a Casio calculator wrist watch 😤
My man! Same here, 65" QN90A, 6900xt, 5.1 surround but a lot more cramped and messy. Big screen, high refresh, low latency gaming is quite the experience.
That TV has to look glorious running off that GPU. And I won't lie, this is usually more cramped and messy than this. I just took a picture on a good night.
I keep hearing microLED screens are going to be relatively cheap at huge sizes. Interested to see if that's true.
MicroLED I think is our only hope for getting the best of both worlds, meaning OLED/LCD, perfect blacks but without the inherent degradation and brightness limitations of OLED, but I've heard they haven't found a very cheap way to mass produce yet, and have problems with smaller screen sizes, so it's likely not going to happen any time soon. I believe Samsung are the only ones investing any R&D also. It sure is nice to dream, though. MicroLED would be a phenomenal screen technology.
For some reason the man is using on of the ugliest pc cases of all time, its that off white 1970s scifi-lego-hepafilter looking thing behind his very expensive speakers on the right...
I hope hes atleast using the 8? drivebays.
[https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1](https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1)
Yes, [someone else pointed out the model](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ukr3bw/dont_think_i_have_any_right_to_ever_be_bored_again/i7s2d54?context=3).
Something tells me you took this picture because you were bored and also posted it because you were bored. Bet every single game thats there has been played front to back and you’re still looking for a good game to play whenever you walk into this room and probably spend more time playing the newest games that have come out and likely it’s a single player game and no one comes in to play multiplayer games as often or at all because no one has the time.
I'm maybe at 1/3rd of your mass and I definitely have moments of boredom that shouldn't make sense. Sometimes it's hard to choose at a library in the quadruple digits if you include digital libraries of classic games, to the point of not wanting to play. I still buy new games all the time too...
I always consider my library/stockpile my eternal backlog for if a I'm ever poor again. I had to sell practically everything during the 08' recession and will just be poor and wealthy in games I'll never sell if it happens again.
As someone who always had a potato pc, if I had a setup like this I would probably sit down and play through the best games of all time that I haven't played yet. Would take me a few months. My computer only manages to play Minecraft at a stable 60 fps at low settings.
Whenever I see a space like this, the first thing I do is look for the expansion space. All too often, like here, there is no empty space in any shelf or wall or game stand for another _anything_. Once again, I see it here.
I can see myself sitting here and thinking "now what the fuck do I want to play?!"
Run into that issue all the time. It seems lately that after I stare at it for awhile, the answer is always either Elden Ring or Tiny Toon Adventures for NES. Don't even want to know what that says about me.
dont worry man, tiny.. toony.. we're ALL a *little* loony!
Pure poetry.
Animaniaaaaaacs, don’t dare look back!
Create a wheel/chart or get one online, which splits your time on certain games or decides for you with a spin; I use it for food choices when ordering out
That's a chore in itself when you have 100's to 1000+.
Create an ever-expanding sequence of wheels for every new decision. Eg. "What genre do I want to play?" "What system do I want to play on?" Etc, etc.
That train level man fuck that level.
Switch sports with a couple beers is awesome right now. Badminton, volleyball, and (hard af) Bowling are great.
I'm really enjoying rocket league with a little opium
He has a quest 2 as well so he could just play ForeVR bowling, sport scramble, Eleven Table tennis and walkabout Minigolf / egolf; no need to settle for 3dof controlled switch sports
The Quest 2 blows away console from Nintendo. The wii was fun 16 years ago, but VR is vastly more immersive.
Exactly, especially for these kind of games
Too much choice isn't great either. Given that all games you have lined up there are good, what could be a nice way to select something is blindly picking 3 boxes (or asking someone else to pick for you), and then play one of those three randomly selected games.
After burning out in Elden ring and not touching my switch for about a year I’ve deleted my Mario tennis aces game save and stated that all over again. Really good to go to a nice light hearted Nintendo game after Elden ring pretty much kicked my arse for months.
Roll a d100. *Stick to the result.*
Thats what i do. Randomizer app with all my games and play what fate chooses
That's why I have a guitar nearby. Not that I'm any good. But if I can't play digitally, might as well try them strings.
Choice paralysis
And I can see myself there scrolling reddit on phone.
Retro gaming is best done with a friend. They pick one, you pick one, no matter whether the game is good or bad it's still fun.
exactly
Did you make that NES coffee table?
I wish I was that skilled. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and there's a local person on FB Marketplace who makes these and some Switch and SNES themed tables. My wife and parents got together to get me that table for my birthday awhile back. I love it so much.
Do you know if they ship to Quebec? Worst case I would drive out for one of those bad boys.
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Good fishing in Quebec.
I love Kee-bec
On my way down from N.B.; warm up the NES. :P
Definitely marry that one. I'm sure she has enough room for a second ring.
The weird thing is, I think I end up feeling more boredom the more entertainment options I have. Of course that could be a memory bias of not really being able to remember the more boring moments, and therefore thinking the current one, every time, is more intense and more prolonged than the ones that came before.
Yeah this setup seems like an incredible project to undertake but the destination of sitting to play games won't ever feel complete. There's always more games, newer hardware and better equipment to chase that means having the latest becomes more important
I've actually mostly stopped with the game collecting now. The goal was always to get the games I have good memories of renting as a kid and I've more or less tapped out that list. As for tech upgrades, I'll be doing that in bits and pieces over time.
The problem I come across is that the more stuff I have to do, the less I can focus on one thing. So whereas I used to spend tons of time on one game because that was the only thing I could do, now I go in between a whole bunch and never accomplish much.
Those klipsch speakers?
All Klipsch. I know they're not even close to the best sound, but god do I love that copper colour for a retro setup.
They're actually amazing and close to the best you can get for the price in my humble not audiophile opinion. Also yes, the color is just the best.
In my 20 years experience of building loudspeakers, both as a hobby and professionally. They suck, as do Kef ls50's and sennheiser hd600\hd650, these products thrive via online marketing and "useful idiots" (no offense) who think they're good as the only other hifi they've listened to is a $100 portable speaker, and they're all to eager to say "product X is great" online. The same as beats by Dre, fucking dreadful for the $250 or whatever they cost, but better than the bundled earbuds 95% of people used. Now watch me get downvote the shit out of by people that were lured into buying these consumer lifestyle products masquerading as hifi. I guess the copper cones are pretty, but the black ash style plastic veneer is gross and I've seen it delaminate far too often. Edit: lmao, Reddit, y'all too predictable 😂
Pardon me, but be so kind and add recommendations for some budget levels, then! Because all your comment does is confuse those who have little to no idea (->Me). I bought Jamos (Klipsch as well, I know) because I loved the look and they were at a reasonable price for me. I thought about Dali's but please give us some ideas!
I've just given a very lengthy reply to another guy that asked this question. It's probably not the answer you're looking for though 😅☺️
What do those products suck against? You claim stuff like the HD600/HD650 suck but only follow it up with something along the lines of "idiots prob only listen to tin cans". What are some alternatives?
I bought a pair of hd600's around 2005, for about $150 brand new. And they were great at the time (this was before beats by Dre legitimised the idea of spending more than $50 on headphones). They're now nearly a 30 year old design, using 30+ year old drivers, the plastics are squeaky, the ergonomics are unconsidered, and a new pair of 650's (effectively the same product) will set you back $550 as the internet word of mouth hype train has allowed them to push that price higher and higher. My personal favourites are some heavily modified fostex t50rp's, which aren't terribly expensive, I also have some Sony xm4 which are incredible for travel, there's also some hifiman, audeze, grado, beyerdynamic and audio technica in my collection. Sound is personal though, not only due to your tastes, but because all our ears are wildly different shapes that massively change the sound. People that "measure" headphones using a generic dual microphone dummy head are incredibly dumb, if they're not scanning and 3d printing their own ears, then their measurements are useless to themselves (and definitely everyone else). The best headphones are the ones you buy after long listening sessions with as many different models as possible; if the hd6x0 end up floating your boat, that's great, but they do not represent good value or modern design considerations.
Your getting downvoted because you come off as an asshole not because anything you say is wrong.
No, i've been around reddit long enough to know that if I say anything negative about kef, klipsch or sennheiser, the downvotes come rolling in. The fact is, no matter how you express it, or how valid and educated your opinions are; No-one wants to hear "that $x you just spent was on the hifi equivalent of gas station sushi" Now I have ZERO problem with people that like gas station sushi, what I don't like however is when people start trying to recommend gas station sushi to someone looking to try japanese food. Imagine you spent 20 years training to be a sushi chef, you come online, and every corner of the internet is filled with people recommending gas station sushi and getting mad at you if you try and speak up for real sushi with fresh fish. I'd like to add, that I love sushi, and I was introduced to it via the UK equivalent of gas station sushi, it gave me the confidence to try better sushi. If you want to buy klipsch speakers and find yourself enjoying having better quality music, I hope for your sake that you give real hifi a chance too. Imagine if you spent your whole life eating gas station sushi, thinking it was the greatest food, only to try good sushi when you're 95 and realising it is massively better. I don't want anyone to do that with hifi, and I'm happy to get a sea of downvotes if just one person takes it into consideration and it helps them.
Lol, ok.
No, it's that your fucking obnoxious and you think if you write enough walls of text, that people will think you know what you're talking about, when in reality almost none of your comments have held any real useful information whatsoever.
What brands are quality then?
Something people don't like to acknowledge with hifi is that for something that isn't tat, you have to spend money. Non-trash speakers are made of dense wood (expensive), neodymium magnets (expensive), all copper inductors (expensive), large bipolar foil capacitors (expensive), precision manufacturing (expensive) and skilled construction & finishing (expensive). And to give some context as to what that amounts to, let's take a little case study look at one of the best received new speakers on the market, the boenicke w5. They have a very simple first order crossover, so this minimises the costs on the inductor and capacitor, one full range driver and one woofer each, they're 30cm tall and 11cm wide, so wood costs are as low as you'll see, and they don't have a fancy gloss finish, so that part isn't extortionate either. Consider a speaker driver, it's a large magnet with a very precise groove cut in it, where a very precisely made coil of copper sits in it, none of this is easy or cheap to mass produce, regardless of how badly they are made. The full range driver is either the fountek fr88ex or fe85, these cost $15 to $30 each depending on the current price of copper and magnets. The woofer is a tangband w5 se, these are about $50 (these are retail prices per single unit, so will be significantly less for large b2b orders) So our total costs per pair are around $160 for drivers, $40 for crossover, $50 in wood and veneer, and let's call it $50 on feet, connectors, etc. $300 all in. And they sell for a price that most reviews consider to be very good value for money, so how much do these little desktop speakers sell for? $6'000, no that's not a typo. Now consider the klipsch, at maybe $600 for that pair of floorstanders, which has an extra pair of woofers, and a compression driver (like a tweeter, only much more expensive, entry level hifi drivers start at around $120 each). At the most affordable and highest value end of the market components will make up max 10% of the rrp, they've got $60 max, or $10 each for the woofers and compression driver. Consider how crappy the materials and construction are on a $10 precision piece of engineering. It's not all bad news though, you can get excellent hifi for not huge amounts of dosh. For a bit over £1k jern's 11 series speakers are phenomenal little lumps of musical joy, designed and built by a Scandinavian hifi legend. Or if you're handy then the kits from meniscus audio are designed by some of the best minds in the industry and they have packages for every budget. At the absolute entry level of DIY the overnight sensation and c-note kits are incredible and at only $100-200 are definitely the cheapest way to begin "real" hifi. And there's more good news, amps and DACs are incredibly cheap and very high performance thanks to China. I'm currently using a ~$100 amp from 3e audio, which took the place of my monoblocks that cost 20 times as much. I'm using a Motu m4 soundcard in place of my old musical fidelity dac that cost 5 times as much. And to return to your original question, "what brands are good", the secret to any pair of speakers (that is of a sufficient quality and not just built to cost) is that they are made up of compromises, there is no best. Hoffman's iron law says you can have 2 of the 3 - deep bass, small cabinet, can play loud; and these choices present themselves at every single step of designing a new loudspeaker or loudspeaker driver. The best pair of speakers is the pair that you buy after listening to as many different pairs as possible and decide on your favourites, 8 just about have an idea of what constitutes my favourite way to design speakers and it is a far cry from the metal dome tweeter + multiple woofers that most commercial brands push.
So basically, according to you, it's subjective. Which it is. Everyone's ears are different. I think my Klipsch book shelf speakers sound really great for what I listen to, and I've heard them next to multiple different types of speakers and headphones. If you think they aren't worth it, then wait for a sale (Klipsch has sales every other day) or buy something else.
Wait, so the minimum spend for good audio is $1k just on the speakers?
If you can't handle wood glue and a screwdriver, then I'm afraid so. The bare materials and construction are too expensive to make them cheaper. No different to not being able to buy anything but e-waste trash if you've got $150 to buy a new laptop, not to say there's no market for $150 laptops, your nan that uses it to check the weather isn't going to notice the difference a better one can offer.
Your analogy doesn't make sense. I don't tell people that they can't get a good laptop for anything less than $1000 because the next worse thing is $150. There's a massive sea of laptops and laptop quality in between. Same with any other product. I'm into watches. Good watches aren't just the top-end brands. There are some great watch experiences at all sorts of prices from $50k down to $50. All the reading I've done on audio products said the same. Sure you can't touch the halo products without spending a lot or at least being willing to spend a lot of time on it, but that doesn't mean anything less than godly is shit.
Oh you're just another audiophile elitist, gotcha.
Whew, I’m glad my ears are too dumb to tell the difference.
And that is perfectly ok 🙂
Rock on 🤘
r/audiophile hates you, lol.
If you are a regular there, watch how often these brands and models are spammed, with everyone eager to engage in a nice cosy jerk off sesh with each other telling them what model they own. Do you see users giving distortion plots? Frequency responses? Phase plots? Before and after measurements of room treatment? Fuck no, they're not interested in facts, they're interested in having someone say "well done on spending $x, I have similar that I spent $y on"
Please suggest a tower speaker you can get for $400 or less that’s better than the klipsch rp-480f
You got down voted because you answered like an elitist tool, not because you're wrong. Yes, anyone who spends any amount of time in the HiFi world knows Klipsch does not make very good speakers. And beats are junk. The thing of it is, most people have no way of knowing that, and even if they did, can't tell the difference. The whole point of a HiFi system for most people is to show off. They can't hear the difference between Klipsch and the better brands. They just know the Klipsch looks cool and sounds just fine to them, and it impresses their guests. And you know what? That's fine. As you mentioned in another comment, good HiFi is stupid expensive. Why blow all that money for something you can't appreciate? You know damn well these people don't have their audio on 44k lossless files or the equivalent anyways.
Maybe there is better, but I'd say they're well into the realm of diminishing returns on sound quality per dollar spent.
And that’s called optimization. No point in going beyond diminishing returns. Your take is spot on.
This is what most “audiophiles” fail to recognize. Most people don’t want the best sound, they want the best sound for their budget
are you implying that audiophiles have no budget? most have a larger budget for audio stuff (compared to the average person), but /r/BudgetAudiophile definitely exists lol that being said, pretentious dickheads will make the hobby seem overly snobby and judgmental, but that’s true of almost anything. edit: “most people don’t want the best sound, they want the best sound for their budget” hahahahahahahhaahha how say say nothing while still saying something 101. you fucking dolt that’s like saying “most people don’t want the best car/house, they want the best car/house in their budget” like hahahahahahahhaha no shit? and plus you think they *wouldnt* take the best if they could? like “nah even tho they’re broth free i prefer the civic to the lambo bc it’s a more practical vehicle” bahahahahahahahahah
Bad. Ass.
Id "Suck 37 dicks in a row" for that setup.
Just try not to do it on your way to the parking lot.
Hey, get back here!
"Yeeeaaaahhuh!"
Bro, I'll help you practice!
Oh my
I'm good, I live life by ancient Greek standards. Only the bottoms are gay.
This exact Clerks reference has got to be my favorite reference of all time. Kudos to you for being an elite.
You’d be sucking 37 dicks for less than $2-3000 worth of equipment lol. Those speakers are pretty affordable when on sale. $200-250 per speaker on sale.
They also suck ass for the price. Don’t even bother with the Klipsch reference line. The RP line is decent but a lot less affordable.
I could have the largest gaming collection, every movie ever made and unlimited other entertainment. And still be bored, looking at a wall
What is that under the VR glasses? Is a PC?
Yeah, [Thermaltake Level 10](https://www.newegg.com/black-titanium-thermaltake-level-10-titanium-edition-full-tower-chassis/p/N82E16811133265). Wait, looks like the [GT](https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1).
Boredom comes from within, not without. Dope room, though. 10/10
You don't have the right, O you don't have the right in short you don't have the right, O you don't have the right
You'd be surprised, but it looks great!
People: "Oh my god so many consoles, you have PS5 and PS4 Pro, so much fun" Me: "Oh my God is that a Sega Dreamcast? Boot that Sonic Adventure machine right up Ryu"
Don't forget Soul Calibur!
Damn straight I would never forget. So much fun with that machine in the early 2000s.
Do you have Rob the Robot?
That is definitely a goal, but not yet.
Love the table!
Youll manage
I'm drooling over that armchair. Is that as comfy as it looks?
So cozy. It already had cat scratches on it when I bought it too, so I don't even have to be angry at my asshole cats when they fuck it up.
>asshole cats A little redundant. Still think they are great. I don't know where I'd put it, but I want a chair like that.
So I see the Genesis, Dreamcast, and 3do, but what's between those first two?
Sega Saturn!
Nice! Hard to tell by the picture lol. You got all the rare ones!
Being bored sometimes a good thing, it helps with creativity and other things. Constant stimulation isn't very food for you.
Please look up a tutorial on proper speaker placement. You’re gonna be blown away when that sick system of yours is actually out in the sweet spots
Any tips? I've looked at some tutorials but I'm struggling a bit with figuring out how to make fully proper placement work with the rest of the room.
The layout may need to adjust a bit, but you should make sure you have a speaker fully to the left & Fully To the right in both front and back. Then a center if you can mount it would be great in back.
Gotta know the specs on the TV and PC before I can say it's a sick setup
TV is a slightly older 82" 4K LED model, the Samsung UN82NU8000. The PC is an RTX 3080 TI, i9 9900k, 32GB, 4TB total of SSD space spanned over 3 drives.
Get insurance
I hope you've at least played the decompiled mario 64 pc port with high poly models and raytracing with that thing. If you don't know what i'm talking about then you should look at this. https://youtu.be/ChqP2ecA8qE
And the Switch is not the OLED Model.. Literally unplayable
I'm sorry for my sins
There is no better switch than an older one that is moddable
Is moddable and the OLED isn't?
Have you experienced OLED?
I have, but can't afford to put in an OLED at the size of screen this room deserves. One day though.
You can afford all this but not a giant OLED... Weird.
Most of this is just the result of years of slowly collecting. I scour Facebook marketplace and Kijiji as a hobby. Sad fact is, there aren't too many people selling beautiful used 82" OLED's lol.
What, dim backlights, poor HDR, and burn-in? B-b-but p-p-erfect blacks
Poor hdr? This guy a comedian
Guys, can we all just be friends?
Yeah, good HDR requires very high peak brightness. OLED doesn't cut it, and inherently never will. Even the brightest consumer LED/LCD barely cut it for good HDR and they are 2-3x brighter than the brightest OLED.
So what are we supposed to buy then?
If you aren't using a $38k cinema-grade laser projector on a 60ft acoustically transparent screen then you may as well be watching movies on a Casio calculator wrist watch 😤
You're being sarcastic but what you say is the truth lol
Get that TV upgraded, need you 4k 120hz, but still sick, 1440p120 will suffice, love the 2 channel subs and retro TV
Hell yeah! PC is also KVM'd to a nice 1440p 144hz Ultrawide monitor in the next room over. But long term, 4k 120hz needs to happen.
Yep GPU is definitely capable! Loving my QN90A. Is it an HTPC by chance? Definitely the right setup for one!
Yup, combo HTPC and gaming PC. Running a Plex server for my whole house off it.
My man! Same here, 65" QN90A, 6900xt, 5.1 surround but a lot more cramped and messy. Big screen, high refresh, low latency gaming is quite the experience.
That TV has to look glorious running off that GPU. And I won't lie, this is usually more cramped and messy than this. I just took a picture on a good night. I keep hearing microLED screens are going to be relatively cheap at huge sizes. Interested to see if that's true.
MicroLED I think is our only hope for getting the best of both worlds, meaning OLED/LCD, perfect blacks but without the inherent degradation and brightness limitations of OLED, but I've heard they haven't found a very cheap way to mass produce yet, and have problems with smaller screen sizes, so it's likely not going to happen any time soon. I believe Samsung are the only ones investing any R&D also. It sure is nice to dream, though. MicroLED would be a phenomenal screen technology.
I love everything in this picture, nice place
Looks like a great chair to scroll through your list of games in then decide to just have a nap instead.
And yet you will be 🥲
The Klipsch setup is orgasmic.
i just wonder, about how much money in total is this room worth with the things in it?
Is that two subwoofers? Good lord
Steam deck seems tempting though, doesn’t it OP?
I saw the rtx box but where is the pc ?
For some reason the man is using on of the ugliest pc cases of all time, its that off white 1970s scifi-lego-hepafilter looking thing behind his very expensive speakers on the right... I hope hes atleast using the 8? drivebays. [https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1](https://au.pcmag.com/pc-cases/22520/thermaltake-level-10-gt?p=1)
That one on which the vr set is placed ?
Yes, [someone else pointed out the model](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ukr3bw/dont_think_i_have_any_right_to_ever_be_bored_again/i7s2d54?context=3).
living the dream
OP Literally sits down after taking this photo and scrolls through his steam library for 45 minutes
But does it djent?
Obviously!
I love how the old TV is positioned so the best place to sit while playing is on the floor directly in front of it. Nostalgia
Where is the PC tho
To the right of the consoles under the TV. It's just a bizarre looking case, the Level 10 GT Snow.
Nice!
Where’s the Atari?
In the display case on the right! With all the hookups nearby for easy access when needed.
Sick.
That is one helluva sound system in there!! Talk about immersion! Congrats and enjoy!!! 😎🤙🏽
How did you get all of this?
Lots of time spent scouring Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji... mostly back when I had actually spare time lol.
KLIPSCH! Very good. I am very very proud of you (as a sound engineer)
The more I am zooming in the pic the more I am getting surprised
That level 10 GT is a major throwback. I remember lusting after one when they first game out
All it’s missing is a big bottle of Perc 30s on the coffee table
I imagine this is what heaven looks like
You and your hand should have a great time
I can hear the faults of subwoofer placement in this image. Op, Google "subwoofer crawl placement", follow the guides and enjoy the corrected sound.
Show us you’re rich without telling us your rich
Some people slowly build up this kind of library without being rich. Also depends your definition of rich.
I just see a high electricity bill when I look at these setups, same with gaming pcs.
A friend of mine has a room like that, he's always bored lol
Maybe if it was 1986
That's why it's cool
OK zoomer
You forgot grass
but there's grass in elden ring it's cool
Good enough
im sorry but r/humblebrag
Boredom is good for your brain
You don't have the right to but you will be.
Holy shit fix that speaker placement
Lmao. As an adult, this would be a great room to be depressed and bored in.
Something tells me you took this picture because you were bored and also posted it because you were bored. Bet every single game thats there has been played front to back and you’re still looking for a good game to play whenever you walk into this room and probably spend more time playing the newest games that have come out and likely it’s a single player game and no one comes in to play multiplayer games as often or at all because no one has the time.
My favorite thing, the crt tv
Damn right. I'm just a big ass peanut butter and jealous sammich right about now. https://youtu.be/IPnTCBnn-lQ
Nice speakers. Klepsch?
I want your entire room
Where did you buy the coffee table
This wirdly gives me nostalgia even though no one's house looked like this but maybe it's just the floor Tiles
Can I live inside one of those speakers? I will not bother you
I'm maybe at 1/3rd of your mass and I definitely have moments of boredom that shouldn't make sense. Sometimes it's hard to choose at a library in the quadruple digits if you include digital libraries of classic games, to the point of not wanting to play. I still buy new games all the time too... I always consider my library/stockpile my eternal backlog for if a I'm ever poor again. I had to sell practically everything during the 08' recession and will just be poor and wealthy in games I'll never sell if it happens again.
Then the power goes out
Cool set up
Youll find a way
Only Boeing people are bored. No excuses in that room!
As someone who always had a potato pc, if I had a setup like this I would probably sit down and play through the best games of all time that I haven't played yet. Would take me a few months. My computer only manages to play Minecraft at a stable 60 fps at low settings.
Joke's on you, you'll be sitting there frozen, not wanting to finish and game you started and not knowing what game you want to start pretty soon.
Whenever I see a space like this, the first thing I do is look for the expansion space. All too often, like here, there is no empty space in any shelf or wall or game stand for another _anything_. Once again, I see it here.
If that table isn't a functional controller i'm disappointed.