What has your overall experience been with said product?
Pros and Cons?
Which of the Nothing earbuds would you recommend?
Is there another brand I should check out?
My desired uses of them would be to listen to music and audio books with a pair of earbuds, played over bluetooth, from my Samsung Galaxy 23 S smartphone.
An Interconnect cable is the patch cable that goes between audio separates. For home use they typcially use "RCA" style connectors. The following post is aimed at those types of cables and not XLR style interconnects which can be found on some home audio components.
Go onto Craigslist, Nextdoor, Ebay, or Facebook Marketplace and look for RG6 75ohm coaxial cable. It's the cable that is run in most houses for cable TV. You might even have this stuff laying around your house in a box somewhere. Either way you can get it for pennies per foot if you look hard enough. There are versions with a solid copper core , or a copper clad steel core. For audio use, either is just fine, but as a personal preference I like to use solid copper core as it's better quality cable. However, it does cost just a bit more, but still cheaper than buying cables in a box store.
Next you'll need RCA compression fittings for RG6: Amazon Link
Then purchase a compression tool and coaxial cutter: Amazon Link
Follow the instructions that come with the tools and enjoy cables that outperform even those that are made of unicorn farts and fairy dust that people with too much money but little sense like to tout. These cables will also last forever as RG6 cable is very tough, especially the solid copper core version. I have cables that are north of 30 years old still in daily use.
The only issue with RG6, it is a stiff cable. So making short runs bend at sharp angles is not an easy thing to do. You will need to come up with a method to keep stereo pairs together, or just run them separately. Plus mark the cables as Left or Right channels. I use either colored heat shrink tubing, or electrical tape for this purpose.
I've been trying to figure this out by looking at Rockbox's manual, and haven't been able to find a clear answer. Can you search for song titles and artists by name?
I have a Hiby R3 right now, and the text search feature is annoying me, so I'm hoping that Rockbox does better.
For example, on the Hiby, if you have some songs by The Beatles, if you search for "beat," it won't find them. You have to search for "the beat" instead. It only matches characters from the beginning of the name.
I'm planning on getting a Hifi Walker H2 and installing Rockbox on it, but I'd like to know how well searching works first. Does anyone have a Rockbox device here?
My walkman e-dj 855 won't play certain CDs, because of it's format files
One example is this cd that I got recently
https://www.discogs.com/release/6790329-Marina-And-The-Diamonds-Froot
It keeps reading the cd, but never plays.
So the question is any recommendations on cd player?
Something under 100, like the Instant Disc Audio CP1.
I'm going to set up a simple, local digital music player out of the internals from an old laptop I have lying around. Yes, I could have ponied up €80-100 for a used Rpi, but I'd rather get some more mileage out of the old hardware, plus I like to tinker.
The player is probably going to run Daphile, and will sit between the USB HDD housing my digital music collection and my stereo amplifier. No streaming required to other rooms or on the go at this time, just a straight, wired connection into the living room speakers.
The idea is to yank the motherboard out of the laptop casing, preserving as many ports as possible, and putting it into a slim customised cabinet instead. It'll probably be fugly in the first version, but like I said — I like to play around with things.
There are two issues though, and I want to solve them in one go if I can. The laptop board only has a ratty 3.5mm audio port — and I'd rather build a DAC into the music player than add two separate new boxes to the stereo setup. So,
I suppose the DAC will also need to draw power from somewhere, so suggestions on that part are also welcome.
What DAC do I plan to use, you ask? At this point I'm undecided. I'm tempted to hack one together myself, but that may introduce too many wild cards into the equation. Alternatively, a simple prefab board with RCA connections. Happy to hear your suggestions on that front, too 🙂
I have an Onkyo TX-8020 audio receiver and three sets of bookshelf speakers. The receiver has terminals for two sets of speakers. Is there a way that I can wire all three sets into the two sets of terminals? Perhaps with two pairs wired in parallel or serial?
One speaker set rated for 6 ohms and the two other sets are rated to 8 ohms. I want to run speakers in my small house for the kitchen, office, and living room. Speaker impedance math is so over my head. Any help would be appreciated. I just don't want to burn out my receiver. This is all cludged together from garage sale finds and family giveaways.
The receiver power output is rated as: 180 W (3 Ω, Front) 160 W (4 Ω, Front) 100 W (8 Ω, Front)
The speakers sets are rated at: The two Dayton sets - 40W, 8 Ω Pioneer set - 80w, 6 Ω
My dad listens to a lot of records and likes a surround sound experience even if most of his records don’t take full advantage of it. He needs new rear speakers but isn’t looking to spend much money. He’s specifically looking for 8ohm passive speakers but doesn’t have specific needs beyond that. He tends to prefer floor speakers but is okay with bookshelf too if it’s a much better value for money (and ideally if they can easily be wall-mounted). He hasn’t given me a price point in mind. I’m thinking around $150-200 CAD or less but I don’t know for sure. I sent him a link to a $350 pair of bookshelf speakers and he said that’s more than he wants to spend, so definitely less than that.
He likes my Edifier P12’s but they’re only 6ohm. I tried looking if they have an 8ohm equivalent that doesn’t have Bluetooth/preamp/whatever but I didn’t have much luck.
I’m pretty sure I know the answer already and I can foresee the other comments incoming already. (Eg; “Why are you recording in the living room in the first place? 🤪)
But here we go. My partner is recording audio occasionally while on the couch in the living room; while I work from home in an adjacent office. They are using a Blue Yeti on a cheapo $40 mic arm, bolted to a side table next to the couch.
Since we have hardwood floors in an ancient house, there’s some creaking being picked up in the recordings. Which is probably me adjusting my weight in my chair in the other room every now and then.
Question is, do we:
Alright. Give us hell folks! Hehe.
On Rocknix's page, it is stated that the Eros Q, HiFi Walker H2, and Surfans F20 are all the same device produced by the same OEM, meaning they are all compatible with the same build of Rockbox. Are these devices any good quality? Has anybody used one of these before?
I wanted a device that supported Rocknix, so it was between the Eros Q (and friends) and used iPods for me, I like the clickwheel to scroll through music. I would prefer the Eros Q (and friends) since it comes with USB-C, microSD storage, etc. out of the box.
I'm looking to upgrade my Fiio K5 Pro with a Topping E50 paired with the Fosi Audio GR70. I've wanted to try a tube amp for a while now. Reception to the GR70 seems mixed. Some people love it while others report it sounds dull and is prone to interference. I'd love to hear about someone else's experience. Thank you!
Vintage Audio Addict is a great YT channel that I recommend for all Budget Audiophiles to subscribe to.
This video is a dissertation on the work of Peter Aczel. An engineer that lays it out in plain language how audio really works and why "Audiophiles" are wasting their money. I've known about Peter for quite some time and his perspective went a long way in shaping my own in regards to audio equipment.
