[Shavit]

Hello, I'll start with a brief description of me;
I'm Yotam, I'll be 21 in two weeks and I am from Israel. Since I was young I remember myself searching for the best audio quality tracks
and songs to listen to on my Silverline 256 MB MP3 player. And then on my iPod touch 1st Generation and so forth... I always liked speakers,
headphones, earphones and stereo equipment. I really cannot explain it, music is passion and sound is it's hand gently patting me on the back.
 
I own quite the old sound system in my room:
-Standard DVD player for CD's
-Lenco L833 DD turntable for records
Those two are plugged into a Luxman R-1080 receiver which outputs to two Morel MLP-202 monitors.
Most of this equipment is from the early 80's (Turntable from 85', receiver from 83', monitors from 88' if I am not mistaken) besides the DVD player.
 
I have a Nexus 5 which I listen to music from (contains roughly 15 albums) on my VSonic VR06 (5 years old now I believe which have been through
a laundry once) and are still rocking their lives out (I also have a brainwavz pair for backup). I also own a ATH-M50x for when I don't wanna use my
speakers and listen to music by myself.
 
This is my setup. And now to my point - I know nothing about these components. I want to learn more, I want to add to system.
I know that there are amps, there are DAC's but I don't know what they are, what they are made of or what the do nor what they are connected to or
what it their output. 
 
And about all that I want to learn, the theory of sound systems and mechanics. 
 
Can anyone please, help me learn, guide me somewhere?
 
Thank you very much to all of you who read this.

 

[castleofargh]

about getting better gears, I'm perhaps an oddball, but I strongly believe that gears are here to solve specific problems we have. if what you own doesn't drive you crazy for X or Y reason, no need to manufacture a new need from scratch just for some idea of HiFi.
 
 
now about learning. audio as we know it is a vast array of disciplines, you might want to focus on one at a time or accept that you'll only ever just see the surface of things for many years. you can check for basic electricity to understand most of the interactions between devices in a system, you can learn about digital signal, start looking into acoustic and then why not psycho acoustic(how the human brain interprets what our senses receive).
also in here we're lucky to have a few people who do recording and mastering if that side of audio is of interest to you.
 
I came looking on internet for about the same thing as you some years back, and I've been hooked ever since. anytime I learn something, it just opens up on many new questions and I feel like the more I learn the less I know ^_^. but it's an interesting hobby, aside from actually enjoying music.
 
 
and to start somewhere, DAC stand for Digital to Analog Converter. it turns digital information into an analog electrical signal that is more or less what you will listen to. it will be amplified by ... an amplifier to let you get the loudness you need, and then the electrical analog signal will be converted into air pressure variations by some transducer(headphone/speaker). and your ears are sensitive to those air pressure changes.
so basically anytime you listen to digital music, your system has a DAC, an amp, and some transducers. when you buy a dedicated DAC you usually really just replace one DAC by another DAC.
 
if you have more specific questions about a more specific discipline, someone will probably be able to help or at least guide you toward books or some paper on that subject.

 

[Roseval]

Try this one: http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/
Lots of articles about all kind of topics in audio.

 

[pila405]

Wikipedia is your best friend (maybe after Google), so you can start here, and anything which you find interesting, just click on it and keep on reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_power_amplifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones

 

[Shavit]

  about getting better gears, I'm perhaps an oddball, but I strongly believe that gears are here to solve specific problems we have. if what you own doesn't drive you crazy for X or Y reason, no need to manufacture a new need from scratch just for some idea of HiFi.
 
 
now about learning. audio as we know it is a vast array of disciplines, you might want to focus on one at a time or accept that you'll only ever just see the surface of things for many years. you can check for basic electricity to understand most of the interactions between devices in a system, you can learn about digital signal, start looking into acoustic and then why not psycho acoustic(how the human brain interprets what our senses receive).
also in here we're lucky to have a few people who do recording and mastering if that side of audio is of interest to you.
 
I came looking on internet for about the same thing as you some years back, and I've been hooked ever since. anytime I learn something, it just opens up on many new questions and I feel like the more I learn the less I know ^_^. but it's an interesting hobby, aside from actually enjoying music.
 
 
and to start somewhere, DAC stand for Digital to Analog Converter. it turns digital information into an analog electrical signal that is more or less what you will listen to. it will be amplified by ... an amplifier to let you get the loudness you need, and then the electrical analog signal will be converted into air pressure variations by some transducer(headphone/speaker). and your ears are sensitive to those air pressure changes.
so basically anytime you listen to digital music, your system has a DAC, an amp, and some transducers. when you buy a dedicated DAC you usually really just replace one DAC by another DAC.
 
if you have more specific questions about a more specific discipline, someone will probably be able to help or at least guide you toward books or some paper on that subject.

Thanks a bunch! I'll begin in basic stuff, like the nice gentleman pointed me toward Wikipedia articles of DAC's, Amps and such!
Although I have made some calls and sent some emails to some shops and professional stores around my area to find out if there are courses or something like that which I can participate in.
 

  Try this one: http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/
Lots of articles about all kind of topics in audio.

Thanks!
 

  Wikipedia is your best friend (maybe after Google), so you can start here, and anything which you find interesting, just click on it and keep on reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_power_amplifier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones

Thanks! I'll start by reading those and continue from there!

 

[pila405]

If you're interested, there is more information on a thread I started:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/828477/recommendations-for-books-on-sound-science

But I think you should go through the basic concepts first. You can PM me for more info if you'd like.

 

[Shavit]

  If you're interested, there is more information on a thread I started:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/828477/recommendations-for-books-on-sound-science

But I think you should go through the basic concepts first. You can PM me for more info if you'd like.

Thanks! I'll send you a PM!