Vorbis - Dec 2001 - What systems are you using to listen to Oggs?

What rigs do you folks use to listen to your music?  I have a P-III 500
with Altec Lansing speakers in the dining room and a P-II 350 with Labtec
speakers in the Guestroom/office.  Sorry, I can't remember what model the
Lansings are off the top of my head.  The Labtec speakers are fairly
cheap. I have a PCI ensonique sound card in the P-III system.  I not sure
what kind of sound card is in the P-II system.  Both systems are
networked so I can play music from either one. I have my mp3s and Oggs on
three different partitions on the two systems.  I send the signal over to
my old stereo (over 20 years) through the tape deck inputs.  It's an
Onkyo TX-31 with two studio Monitor V speakers in the Living room.  I
also have a pair of speakers in the basement and two more sets of Labtec
PC speakers in the kitchen and the Guestroom/office.  It's definitely not
a HI/FI setup, but it works! 

So what do you use to Listen to your Oggs and would you have any
recommendations on sound cards, amplifiers and speakers if I wanted to
upgrade my system.

Thanks

Evert
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evert A Claesson <eclaesson@juno.com> writes:
> So what do you use to Listen to your Oggs and would you have any
> recommendations on sound cards, amplifiers and speakers if I wanted to
> upgrade my system.
I can't make any suggestions, but here is my rather tiny setup: an AMD
Athlon with 1.1GHz (xmms consumes 0.9% CPU time upon decoding oggs,
wohoo), Sound Blaster Live! and a pair of Sony MDR-CD480 headphones.
Since I live in an environment with limited space (student), I rarely
use my two Sonobull 60W speakers attached to an old Telefunken HR-800
receiver.

Nothing extraordinary, far from HiFI; both headphones and speakers are
somewhat too intense on the lower frequencies, but have a quite ok
dynamic and clearity (?).

It's ok to listen to a broad range of music varying from trance, pop
and south american to classic, though I'd love to be able to afford a
Sennheiser or similiar.

Best regards,
Sascha


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Sound Blaster Live, and a hand built (by me!) playmaster pro series III 
amplfier, and my DIY 10" 3 way speakers. I'd like to think it's
Hi-Fi,
but I also don't claim to have golden ears. (It's a celeron 500 system 
if that matters).

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From: evert A Claesson <eclaesson@juno.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 3:18 am
Subject: [vorbis] What systems are you using to listen to Oggs?
> 
> What rigs do you folks use to listen to your music?  I have a P-
> III 500
> with Altec Lansing speakers in the dining room and a P-II 350 with 
> Labtecspeakers in the Guestroom/office.  Sorry, I can't remember 
> what model the
> Lansings are off the top of my head.  The Labtec speakers are fairly
> cheap. I have a PCI ensonique sound card in the P-III system.  I 
> not sure
> what kind of sound card is in the P-II system.  Both systems are
> networked so I can play music from either one. I have my mp3s and 
> Oggs on
> three different partitions on the two systems.  I send the signal 
> over to
> my old stereo (over 20 years) through the tape deck inputs.  It's an
> Onkyo TX-31 with two studio Monitor V speakers in the Living room. 
> I
> also have a pair of speakers in the basement and two more sets of 
> LabtecPC speakers in the kitchen and the Guestroom/office.  It's 
> definitely not
> a HI/FI setup, but it works! 
> 
> So what do you use to Listen to your Oggs and would you have any
> recommendations on sound cards, amplifiers and speakers if I 
> wanted to
> upgrade my system.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Evert
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:18:22 -0600
evert A Claesson <eclaesson@juno.com> wrote:
> 
> What rigs do you folks use to listen to your music?  [snip]
> So what do you use to Listen to your Oggs and would you have any
> recommendations on sound cards, amplifiers and speakers if I wanted to
> upgrade my system.
eheheheh.
I have a P133 as my main desktop system, running linux.
XMMS just manages to play ~64/96 oggs without making the poor thing explode.
Oh, I also have an _Original_ SB16, and some really semi-good old headphones,
except they're annoying, because you only get sound on the right side unless
you twist the wires a certain way. Broken wires or something, annoying.

My setup isn't exactly state of the art (Well, it was six years ago!), but I
do notice the difference between 64k and 128k .ogg's easily enough

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, evert A Claesson wrote:
> So what do you use to Listen to your Oggs and would you have any
> recommendations on sound cards, amplifiers and speakers if I wanted to
> upgrade my system.
Go for an external DAC. A while ago I bought a second-hand Musical
Fidelity X-ACT for about $100, and it's much, much better than a
soundcard.

Maybe there are soundcards which sound just as good but they will
probably cost the same (if not more).

My soundcard is a cheap ($16) Cmedia 8738 with S/PDIF output.

Eric

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