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From: wikipedia

Audiophiles are people who seek to listen to music at a level of quality as close to the original live performance as possible. They use high-fidelity components to try and attain these goals. Most are music lovers who are passionate about high-quality music reproduction. Some hobbyists build their own equipment, especially loudspeakers, but this is less common now

are you an audiophile?
if so, what do you prefer? headphones or speakers?
whats your setup?

ill start:


although i dislike music in any form, i love the sound of great quality audio, in games etc etc.
i prefer headphones over speakers, but i much prefer open headphones over closed(sure, the sound leaks a bit, but it just sounds alot better to me)

my current setup is:
PORTABLES:
Vsonic VS-R02
GREAT canalphones for the price, they cost $70 AUD here(about 50USD)
and they are easily as good as some of the upper model shures, which cost around $150 USD(200 aud)
http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=321


Meier Audio Corda Move
this amp is great, small form factor, not much else to be said really, good quality!
http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=335


MAIN SYSTEM:
Audio Technica ATH-AD700
GREAT sounding mid range headphones, cant go past these on a sub $250 budget(which was what i had to stick to)
http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=178


chaintech av710
cheap, $30AUD soundcard, no EAX support but good quality sounding, especially for the price, comparable audio quality to the Audigy 2 ZS



WISH LIST
what i would love to recieve in the post some day :P
Meier Audio Corda Opera
from what i hear, one of the best headphone amps you can buy.
http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=337

alessandro ms-pro
this needs no description.
ive heard these in store, its beyond description :)
http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=24

Yeh I am an audiophile. Speakers are my preference by far when I'm in my room, cause you can hear "more" of the sound if you know what I mean, and it sounds deeper, and has a quality that headphones cant reach.

My setup is an 80 watt AKAI amp (its not that great..), with a set of JBL TX 2 speakers, which sound amazing. It cost my dad about $300 for each speaker back in the 80's I think, and they're still going strong. He got them from spring road in richmond, if you've ever been to melbourne? apparantly its a well known place. but yer ive got the amp connected to my comp via a 3 1/2 mill - auxillary cable so I can use foobar to play pink floyd through them.

pretty sweet

I'm a bit of an audiophile…I just don't have the money to buy all the nice audio stuff :(

Soundcard :

I think it might just be my motherboard :(

Speakers :

KOSS…pieces of crap. Couldn't have cost over 25$

WISHLIST:

These (yup. elemental's earphones :p) : http://www.headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=24

Even though it looks like a complete pile of junk I want one ^.^ : http://www.futurelooks.com/?m=show&id=299

This one looks nice though…:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Technics-SL1200MK2-Turntable?sku=807053&CJAID=10381297&CJPID=1819956

And some kickass speakers / subwoofer :)

Also one of those 1st gen PS1s wouldn't be a bad thing…

I guess..but not really. I do prefer recorded or concert and 'over-dubbed' than concert quality. But what ever, I don't have time or want to do that dubbing.