EndlessOyster

Just now, SSL said:

Stop immediately. The LCD needs nothing like 15W to reach dangerous levels.

 

I've heard bad things about the Burson sound from people whom I trust fairly well. I'd personally stick go with Lyr 2. Or Mjolnir 2 if you really hate money and can go balanced.

Well thats what the company spec sheet says. So are you call out Audeze for bullshit?

screen shot taken from spec sheet from Audeze
https://www.audeze.com/products/lcd-collection/lcd-3

surprised jaybird is worth so little.

5 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

I can power LCD 3 with my O2/ODAC combo so the shiit stack should be fine.

im guessing they dont go very loud since your only putting 400mW (plus or minus 50mW) through a 15 Watt headphone.

Well according to the spec sheets none of the amps are powerful enough to get to a third of the power rating of the headphones and the ragnorok is only just at half of the watts the headphone can take, but that max wattage is apparently 130dB so quite loud and probably will only need 5Watts to get to something sutiable, but then again headphones apparently dont matter and people give me shit for saying that it is powerful enough even though the manufacturers say it isnt, so hey ho.

Virtual audio cable
http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
Its a bit tricky to get working when you first start using it but for no money and no physical items needed it will do it perfectly well.

probably not since it virtual surround and is being created by a program on the computer which i doubt the PS4 has.

depends on wattage of the amplifier and how many watts your speaker can take, but wont matter as receivers have cheap amps in them most of the time.

and to all the people before saying you cant add this or that, well you can. if i have a 4 ohm 100w amp and i plug my 2 ohm 200 watt speaker in it will be perfectly fine.

If your going to buy a reviver there is no point buying the sound card since it wont do anything since your only sending digital audio signals to reviver to piss around with.
And if you want to keep the sound card you can save money buy not buying a reviver and just getting powered speakers, unless you want to go a bit more high end and get a hellish system with independent amps for each speaker.

28 minutes ago, Virruz said:

Today i got myself a pair of beyerdynamic DT990 Pro's with a 250ohm resistance , and im getting rattling in my right earcup when the base is just to high , idk if my motherboard that claims it has electrical interference protection. Is the ohm rating to high or is the driver dead ?? I have a hackintosh with yosemite 10.3 if that helps

describe a noise because when you say rattle it could just be a loose screw or a bit of plastic broken which is getting rattled.

16 hours ago, Johnmakuta said:

This is all it gives me:

wow thats a dreadful manual, it even shows a 3 pin xlr but a 5 pin connector

wheres @SSL at.

go read the manual and see what it says about the xlr cable and come back with what that says.

6 hours ago, spwath said:

This better?

Painstakingly hand paracord sleeved by me, as well as the headphones polished.

This took a while.

Working on the pads ATM

a lot better, like the jack plug as well.

3 hours ago, EstonianTwat said:

Well the setup is like this. The school which we use this at is a gymnasium. we have 2 active speakers and two speakers connected to the mono output. we thaught "oh man it would be a cool idea to make a program that takes the output from the mixer and calculates and then tells us which is the best EQ for the song or the mic setups." and i wondered that maybe in the depths of the internet it already exists.

Not many things like that as it would put so many people out of a job its almost a agreed thing not to make.

More stuffz
Dynaudio speaker line, "digital speakers" so they have a dac and amp built in so you plug a digital audio cable in. These are high end speakers costing over 400 per speaker for the low model and 600 each for the high end model so not cheap but should be nice speakers.
dynaudio

8 hours ago, SSL said:

Interesting, I particularly didn't know about the K872. Probably too much to hope that they've actually taken the time to fix the lo-fi frequency response before making it into a closed "reference" headphone.

im not to sure what there going to sound like since there a week old, but once some reviews get put out it be interesting what people are saying.

2 hours ago, Woose1 said:

 is this one woth it? i have an old extention cabel for my old steelseries headsett (steelseries extention cabel) will that be fine or should i get the one from beyerdynamic. will the audio get degraded in the one i have?

Retracting comment looked again and realised the steel series one is mic the other is headphones it will work fine.

So currently in Germany there is a trade show Pro Light and Sound its mainly aimed at professionals but there are a few things which would fit into this forums range and Im going to post what I think may be interesting for you.

AKG K872
Basicaly the KA12 but closed back
Video

Sennheiser MK4 Digital
Just the MK4 microphone but now a USB version, maybe very popular for you guys as a high end microphone now with even more simplicity. Will probably cost in the 300 to 500 range

Video (in german sorry cant find english)

Zoom portable audio interface
So they came out with two little portable audio interfaces not bad looking, seem like they are very sturdy.

Zoom

JBL EON One
If you dont know EON is a JBL brand for small performance speakers and there new one is interesting, so if you have a small band pub size this maybe for you.
Its a small low speaker with the mid and highs comming out of a collum speaker which is plugged in on the top, it has basic controlls such as gain on the back, its ment to be simple to use for a small garge band who wants to do a performance.
Video EON

Genelec has some speakers
Personly first time hearing about this company but there your price range of speakers and may be suitable
Genelec

Pioneer DJ DM 40
little active monitor speakers, not too bad looking cant say much for audio as its new not much out there yet, but it could be a nice side of monitor desk speakers
DJ DM 40

Thats most of the stuff I could find which I think its partially relevant to the forum and because it is a lighting show as well hes some videos of lighting from the event if you want something cool looking.
Flashy Flashy
PRG at it again with those white vans
If your after more information on anything I recommend looking at the Sound on Sound magazine who have a good cover of the event.
If you know of any other cool products which I have missed because theres fucking thousands at that place feel free to post them in the comments

I would pick something personally from the Denon line I find most of there headphones are built like a house and I think for transport and moving you need good quality build to reduce chance of damage.

7 hours ago, PapaGangster said:

When you say I should go with smsl should I also get one with more watts? Or would I be ok with 20watts?

Well not to sound like a dick about it but the speaker says 60 Watts so why not 60 Watts. (also capitalise your W its a name)
Also that would need to be at 8 ohms.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=8+ohms+60+watts+amp

I have a solid case for my headphones, but that sits in a pelican case with a load of other stuff like computers and tools.
The headphones which I use with my main computer rig have a case and when moving my rig I put them in the case and move them but when not in use its in a cupboard.
My little headphones I use with my phone get rammed in my pocket and are built well so take a beating.

Just now, ALwin said:

Two male to a single female would be the cable that splits a TRRS to two TRS.  For example, connecting an iPhone earbud to a soundcard that has separate ports for audio and mic.

 

Two female to a single male would be an adapter that combines two TRS into a TRRS (e.g. connecting a headphone with split audio and mic jacks to an iPhone) or as you also said, allowing two friends to share a single audio output, in which case is just a Y splitter.

Dont know why i didnt think of that, could only think of things such as sending data to multiple speakers which isnt a good idea to do like that.

The one male to two females is either a splitter so back in the day on the school bus me and my mate would plug both headphones into a single i pod. Or its a microphone headphone splitter for dual inputs like on most apple products and phones.

The one meter jack to jack is just a jack cable, could use it to plug speakers in or other stuff pretty basic.

I cant think of a use which is acceptable for two male to a single female all uses I could think of are bad to do as it affects impedances and other things.

I am willing to bet a large wad of money the motherboard alone will be perfectly fine with the headphones (along as its not faulty).

I feel like this doesn't belong in the audio section and more suited to the storage section.
Nothing against OP or anything but last few months theres been a couple hard drive noises placed into audio section and I don't want to sound like I'm speaking for the hole of the audio forum but I don't think we know much about hard drives compared to the storage forum and I think this this belongs there just so you get better informative replays.