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God...I'm becoming an audiophile

i sprang for a pair of sennheiser headphones...and after 1 1/2 days i'm hooked. everything is soooooo clear. i can't listen to half of the mp3's i have now (at least with these phones) because everything below cd quality just sounds muddled now. words like grado and soundstage have now entered my vocabulary. anyone else had a similar experience? (with any sort of high-end audio?)

danny

i can see my money being sucked away by hi-fi as we speak.

by ziggysane on 04/27/2006, 00:03

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listing to audio on your headpones always reveals more detail. for my electric piano (yamaha p-90) i have akg k 141 studio headphones. it's like playing a grand piano! amazing!...

i think you should not listen to much to music with your headphones on, it damages your hearing. and that's the thing we can only lose once!

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by ayolt on 04/27/2006, 10:09

and that brings us to such things as studio monitors and loudspeakers.
i use an old pair of jbl's along with some small klh computer
speakers. i'm in the market for an amplifier for my yamaha synth.
what have you guy's got?

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by jmkarns on 04/27/2006, 10:34

i have sennheiser headphones too, and very happy of it.

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by groyann on 04/27/2006, 12:29

i use dynaco a-25 speakers. they're 30 years old or so, and are certainly not flat, but i'm used to the way they sound (and, goes without saying, i enjoy the sound). these won't work for a synth. i've been thinking about getting some of the low-end yamaha or alesis monitors for keyboards at home, but it seems a shame to lay bread down just for practicing -- i'd rather buy a better mixer for live or one of the new gem piano modules when they become available.

i don't know why choosing an amplifier should be difficult for a synth -- pick one which has the amount of power you require to drive your speakers at the volume you like. if it's just one synth, you won't need any preamp-like features.

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by on 04/27/2006, 14:11

what are the gem piano modules?

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by marksdg on 04/27/2006, 15:56

there was a link from a press release posted yesterday at musicplayer forums -- the gem promega iii pianos have apparently been put into a rack module in prototype and will be available sometime soon (one hopes!) for an unspecified price. i've wanted to upgrade to a gem promega ii or iii for a while, but couldn't justify the expense, so it's something i'm looking forward to.

don't have a link, but it should be pretty easy to find out about over there.

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