Your Favorite Equipment & Software

[VonOben]

Originally Posted by Homebrew101

Home stereo: Snell Type A speakers

Oh. Those are pretty babies too.

All older Snell's are.

[chinajoe]

wow. way too technical for me. i'll keep it simple:

toilet paper--two ply

[AAR.oner]

Originally Posted by chinajoe

toilet paper--two ply

Wov! Are they costly?

[VonOben]

Originally Posted by VonOben

Here's a second opinion: http://www.avguide.com/news/2007/10/...ggest-bargain/

And a third opinon: http://www.sonicflare.com/archives/r...ker-system.php

[Paul56]

Interesting, I think I need some upgrades ~

Internet: Comcast 8M> Linksys 330N > Motorola VT4224 >
Net Gear Wireless WN311T >

Computer: Pentium Dual Core ~ CPU 2.80 GHz x2 ~ 4GB ram
HD: Internal WD-160 GB, WDC-500GB ~ External WDC-500GB
Monitor: Dell 21" wide screen
DVD/CD: Sony DVD/CD RW
Speakers/Subwoofer: Labtec & Apple power

Software: Windows XP ~ SP2, Trader's Little Helper, FooBar2000,
Exact Audio Copy, Nero 8 package, Nero Photo Show, dbpoweramp,
Flac frontend

Playback: dbpoweramp > ALAC Lossless > iPod 80GB Video >
Neo Car Audio adapter

Stereo: Toshiba XB-1507, Memorex DVD, Toshiba VCR, Wii, Sony 100 CD player.
Speakers/Subwoofer: Infinity home theater

Guitars: electric ~ '59 LP ri, Stratocastor-'82 & '92cs, '82/'52 ri Telecaster, '84-335cs, '92 PRS, Hamer, '81 Ric 4001; acoustic ~ Breedlove Gerhard MC, Martin 000-28EC, Hill Classical, Larivee OM-03; amps ~ Fender Hot Rod Delux, Custom Bass, Genz Benz;sounds ~ Line 6 Podxt, firepod 8; recording ~ CuBase.

Having a grand old time !

[Darwin72]

I'm totally new at the torrent hobby but have learned vast amounts about things in the past month. Here's my basic equipment:

Computer:
Home built desktop with AMD Dual Core 5800
2GB memory
DVD-RW etc
250GB drive (with only 80GB left in 4 months! I'll be getting an external soon)
Windows Vista Premium (some things are great, some things suck. XP is better)

Router: Linksys WGS54G Wireless (yes the stock admin login has been changed) I use the trigger on port function instead of using a specific port each time for torrents.

Software: (I'm in the process of trying free utilities)
uTorrent 1.75 (I tried Azareus but didn't care for it, I don't want a HTTP window to open while I'm downloading)

Nero 8 Suite for Wave editing etc.

MediaMonkey V2.55: (this is way better for setting up and retagging MP3's and other formats then most things I've tried. I liked it so much I bought the lifetime license/updates version). This will automatically convert a FLAC file into MP3 as it loads music into my portable device too.

Walkman type device(Ha! I'm a product born in the early sixties so I call all iPod related devices Walkmans): iRiver CLIX 2GB generation 1. I also have a utility that will convert AVi into the right size to play on CLIX.

VLC media player V0.8.6: Vista/WMP V11 checks for codecs and won't play if it decides somethings not right. No worries with VLC.

Stereo Equipment: Some 4 year old Sony desktop thing. I can patch a line into the digital input of my soundcard to convert tapes into a wave file.

Darwin72

[steamshooter]

Computer: HP 866MHZ 383 MB ram Gonna build new soon.
Delta Audiophile 24/96 sound card. Realistic Sta-19 reciever w/
Minimus 7 (4" woofs, soft dome tweets)
OS's:Linux Ubuntu Studio - Win 98 (only for Cool Edit)

HD: Seagate 160 GB -WD? 30 GB

Browser: Swiftfox

Burner: Asus

Player:Linux- Rhythmbox w/ FLAC - MP3(Lame)- SHN. Win98 -WinAmp 2.? +EAC
Lame 3.97

Wave Editor: Linux-Audacity, Gnome Wave Cleaner. Win98- Cool Edit Pro

Bittorrent: Azureus

Hard Video/CD- Phillips

Reciever- Marantz 4230 Quad

Analog Sources: TT-Technics SL1200 modified to play 78s, fluid damper, Shure
V15VxMR. Yamaha K-950 cassette (need repair). Akai GX-4000D
reel2reel. Teac 4070G reel2reel. Zenith 8-track recorder.
Speakers- Realistic Mach IIs - 3-way 15" woofs, 6" mids, horn tweets. Sensitivity
in the ninety-something db 1 watt 1 meter range.
Source Material: 1200 + records and counting.(45-33-78-7"-10"-12") All kinds from Rock to Bach
Silver Coasters: 500? and counting. No idea on tapes.
I hope that was boring enough for you

Brad

[dementrium]

I am in love with...

Monitor:
ViewSonic VG920

Programming editor:
UltraEdit

Devel soft:
Ruby on Rails

Amplifier:
Yamaha AX-496 (Love the pure-direct switch, thus no eq & no pre-amp)

My dog:
pictured above.

Not much in love with the speakers:
Technics SBLX 90 (yes, they are huge but lack a little on the hi freqs).

EDIT: for completeness.

Cassette deck:
Technics RS TR232

Cd player:
Kenwood

Dvd player:
A generic one that I love to replace every year.

Dvd recorder:
Another generic which I don't want to replace in the near future.

[dementrium]

Originally Posted by VonOben

I don't want to be rude, but in my opinion you're better off with the Technics than a pair of NS-10s. Mixing anything below 100Hz with a pair of those are just guessing.

Anything above 100Hz is almost guessing.

What are NS-10s? Yamaha speakers?
Because, I tried some (before going Technics) and they pretty sucked: all in all, muffled (or muddy?) sound.

[dementrium]

Forgot to add...

Proudly, NOT an owner of a home theatre.
Sadly, around here is almost impossible to get a decent stereo amp.

Ok, thank you.

[VonOben]

Originally Posted by dementrium

What are NS-10s?

Yep. Note: They have nothing but the name in common with the Yamaha NS-1000.

Looks like this: http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/mu...haspeakers.jpg

[possessed]

My 24 inch widescreen Syncmaster 244T. 8bit, professional grade monitor. No off axis problems, beautiful colors, PIP, HD compliant, multiple inputs, landscape or portrait mode.

My Klipsch V2-400's. First THX certified computer speakers. They may not be the best anymore but they still rock. 400 watt's babeee.

My Klipsch iGroove's. Makes my iPod sound spectacular at work. And I can crank it loud enough to piss off a construction site.

And another favorite, Peggle. It's like fucking crack. Damn you PopCap.

[dcbullet]

I've got a bunch of gear that I'll post when I'm drunk and posting.

In the mean time, the absolute best piece of technology to come along for me in the last few years is the DVR. Oh my god how that has transformed my life. I never realized there were soooo many shows that I would be interested in! And I can watch them twice as fast!

DVR is great.

[possessed]

Originally Posted by dcbullet

And I can watch them twice as fast!

DVR is great.