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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:20:39 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   This feels like a question for me! I like building myself frankensteined audio set-ups made of old review hardware, random second hand stuff, things my friends and I found in skips, and a couple of actually decent things I bought with money.

   I have a Rega Planar 1, an ex-professional Sony cassette deck (cost: 1€ from a local wedding venue that went digital!) and an Onkyo CD player hooked up to a (recapped) Leak Delta 30 (it's a transistor amp from ~1970), hooked up to a pair of Jamo tower speakers.

   Unfortunately, I need to clean up the contacts and tracks on the Leak and take a stern look at the speakers, because I'm having issues with the left channel. When I see a nice and cheap set of second hand hi-fi speakers, I'll switch the Jamos into my home cinema setup, though. (Currently an Onkio AV receiver hooked up to an M-Cube 5.1 speaker system.)

   For day to day digital file listening from my workstation, I have an AudioQuest DragonFly DAC hooked up to a pair of old Mackie CR3 mini monitor speakers (they're better than they deserve to be for the price). I used to have a pair of Behringer Truth B2030A monitors in my old office, which were better, but they're too big for my current setup - I might put them back when I re-integrate my audio production gear with this system though.

   I just play tracks through Clementine because, although I'm sure I could do better, I'm lazy.

   I'm a huge fan of dedicated MP3 players, but I don't have one right now. I might build one, but DAC modules add so much bulk in DIY that I'm not sure how to make the mathematics of size/quality/cost work out.

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   I'm going to shut up now.

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     kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗ (kelbot@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 23:20:41 JST kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗

     How do you listen to music? I'm going to guess that for most of you the answer is spotify or some crap like that :-P. I kid. But if you listen to your music in a more interesting way tell me about that.

     Personally, I listen to music in a combination of ways. Vinyl records, a diy multi-room home music server setup, minidiscs and local files from a smartphone or small low power computer. I use them all regularly as they all make sense for certain situations.