aerinsol
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2011
- Posts
- 9
- Likes
- 0
Hi, everyone, I'm new to Head-fi, nice to meet you all. I'm posting here because I've been trying to figure out a way to improve my current audio setup because I don't feel like I'm currently able to enjoy music the way I want to and feel like I should be able to, but I'm not sure what I can do about it so I was hoping you guys could give me some suggestions.
Just some background info: I live in the NYC metro area. For those of you who live here or other big cities, you'll know that it's crowded and really loud; commuting involves long subway rides with screeching train cars, a lot of people talking loudly, and walking through streets with car horns and sirens going off constantly ... I've lived in a bunch of major cities before and NYC is BY FAR the loudest of them all. Additionally, I've found myself being dissatisfied with my home listening experience; for some reason, I find that the sound my laptop is puts out is decidedly inferior to my Nano 6G. I also find that the both the headphones and the speakers I've been using are more fatiguing over longer periods of listening.
Could any knowledgeable head-fiers: 1) recommend decent-sounding headphones that have top-of-the-line isolation (or something!) that would let me actually hear what's playing on my Nano on the train; 2) point out to me what's the bottleneck in my setup at home, and what I can do to fix it?
I'm willing to spend approximately $200 to rectify this situation ... maybe more if it will take care of both parts!
Current Gear:
Headphones - Koss Portapro, Sennheiser 485, Thinksound Rain TS-01 (currently broken)
Portable setup - Usually Portapro + Nano (CAN'T HEAR A DAMN THING)
Home setup - Macbook Air and Bose MusicMonitor laptop speakers (yes, I know what you all think about Bose) or one of the above headphones
Music files are just run of the mill 192-320 kbps mp3 files -- i know most of you are FLAC guys and girls; respect for your audiophilia, but I just want to be able to appreciate what I already have and not purchase and re-rip my music collection in lossless etc. etc.