Flying_rhino Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 Hi new here to the forum, After many months of COVId19 enforced WFH, I've gotten the itch to improve my home office setup. Ive mainly been into IEMs in the past, and own universal AAW w900, flc8s, dunu titans. I tend to prefer neutralish signatures with good bass texture and natural soundstage. My budget is around $1000 and tossing up between either some desktop speakers or open backed headphones. (Including DAC/amp) My office is pretty small at about 3m by 3m so any speaker would have to be placed fairly close to the wall. Any suggestions for setups? I prefer the sound of speakers, but with my budget and room I'm thinking a midfi rig (like a Sundara or 2nd hand AFO + dx3) might be a better option.
Bengineer Posted June 21, 2020 Posted June 21, 2020 IK Multimedia MTM Mini monitors, go low, DSP, Mic for setup included. 1
Flying_rhino Posted June 22, 2020 Author Posted June 22, 2020 Thanks for the recommendation! those look good, might see if i can audition them. Are they good for listening to music? they look more for studio monitoring and mixing 1
Bengineer Posted June 22, 2020 Posted June 22, 2020 Yeah still good. Fairly nuetral, bit of warm tilt. The DSP is the key. So set them up, stick mic where your head would be, calibrate and done. As for a headphone setup. Sundara would be a decent pick yeah. Or a used Ananda. Then any of the $200-500 all-in-ones or mini stacks that get rave reviews. Topping, Schiit, SMSL etc. 1
MattyW Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 HiVi Swans D300 speakers - my office setup for working from home. Using a TeraDak streamer for Roon via coax into the speakers. Sounds pretty fantastic really. 3
davoaudio Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 22/06/2020 at 12:14 AM, Flying_rhino said: Hi new here to the forum, After many months of COVId19 enforced WFH, I've gotten the itch to improve my home office setup. Ive mainly been into IEMs in the past, and own universal AAW w900, flc8s, dunu titans. I tend to prefer neutralish signatures with good bass texture and natural soundstage. My budget is around $1000 and tossing up between either some desktop speakers or open backed headphones. (Including DAC/amp) My office is pretty small at about 3m by 3m so any speaker would have to be placed fairly close to the wall. Any suggestions for setups? I prefer the sound of speakers, but with my budget and room I'm thinking a midfi rig (like a Sundara or 2nd hand AFO + dx3) might be a better option. I recently found an amazing combo, especially for those who's into beautiful soundstage: Sennheiser HD 660S + FiiO K9 Pro AKM. To meet the $1000 budge, second hand would do it, but it's one of the best staging I've heard.
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