would you recommend the ls50 over the q900 floor standing speakers? the price is basically the same. I would like something fairly loud, if that matters , and I have no experience with bookshelf / monitors

Headzone it's a bedroom that I use as a study / tv room. it's like 15 x 15 feet square

dubstep, I was wondering about that (lot of googling). I remember finding (but frustratingly can't find now) a post from someone who claimed to be listening to headphones plugged directly into the mytek's xlr outputs. sorry, I'm new to this, but why wouldn't it work? Wouldn't you just be using...

well here is what I've decided on... -mytek stereo 192 dsd dac - this will be my dac and headphones amplifier, and also the preamp of my hifi setup -emotiva xpa-2 power amplifier - this is the power amp for my hifi setup -KEF q900 loudspeakers - my speakers -sennheiser hd800 - headphones The...

well I don't really have anything against active speakers. I guess I just wanted to build more of a traditional hifi system. I have been reading good things about genelec, and am considering the m040.. it's just.. they're so small! it's just hard to believe these could be as loud or more...

thank you for the suggestions. I would like to avoid purchasing active powered speakers, if at all possible. I am leaning now towards ultimately creating both a good headphone setup, and a modest hifi system. because of my current $3000 budget, I was now thinking of purchasing something other...

Hello, this is my first post here, although I've done a lot of reading.  Here is my situation:   This is my first real foray into the hifi world.  I currently have no real equipment to speak of, other than a low/middle end home theater system, through which I play all of my music (mostly from...