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Feb 7, 2018 at 10:17 PM Post #10,381 of 10,927
Kind of the same but re-arranged room and new Adam A77x:

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What bro ! this is dope! how is the sound ?
 
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Feb 8, 2018 at 3:04 AM Post #10,382 of 10,927
What bro ! this is dope! how is the sound ?

For the Adam A77x:

TL;DR: Amazing. Everyone should own or at least listen to these. You'll never think about sound the same way again.

Don't use these for music reproduction, but I like good sound and hearing as close to what's on the master tape as possible. I enjoy hearing the mixes themselves and peering into the technical side of the music.

Got these on Thursday. They came out of the box pretty bright and very forward, and also fatiguing.... essentially the complete opposite of what they were supposed to sound like (laid back, neutral, easy on the ears). I ran these for about 5 days now non-stop 24 hours, with all different types of music and white noise and low tones, etc. Eventually around 24 hours they started mellowing out, and by now they've relaxed even more. I don't know if they'll get more broken in or not, but one can hope.

Feeding the monitors with a Geek Out 2A Signature Edition DAC (balanced) and some other USB purifier snake oil/not snake oil (YMMV). They sound great. Listening to Bill Evans Live at the Vanguard sounds like you're there. Other music takes on a whole new dimension. You can hear "into" the mix, and these speakers have a LOT of soundstage and depth. Listening to my favorite music on these has been a brand new experience. My buddy's jaw was on the floor when he heard these. You can hear where everything sits in the mix amazingly well.

We had to play with the settings on the monitors....these came out of the box VERY bassy. The bass will rattle your room but it's extremely tight. We had it at 0 and even then it was too much. We experimented and ended up moving the bass down about 1 and the tweeter up about half or a full 1 to get some more vocals and midrange action. It seemed to work, and the music sounded much better and more balanced. You can adjust the high shelf, low shelf, and tweeter.

These sound great for everything so far, but ESPECIALLY electronic music, jazz and orchestral music. Vocals are present, but don't really "project" unless you mess with the tweeter and even then, it completely depends on how the album was mixed. You can certainly get more vocal presence, but these are pretty dependent on the mix itself. Everything has its own space and dimension, and the imaging is outstanding. Details are insane on these. If it's in the mix, you can hear it. You can hear things you've never heard before. You'll hear things as you've never heard before. You'll know a song, then find out a tone or something sounds completely different than the "colored" sound you've actually been hearing on other speakers.

Cost was $2,500, which may or may not seem like a lot, but considering it's literally an entire stereo system in one, it's really not that much, especially since most hardcore-ish audiophiles probably have somewhere between 3 grand and 5 grand in equipment, at least. I'm thinking about maybe downsizing some stereo equipment/setups and always wanted these, so it works out for me.

I may return these and try to get them on the used market; undetermined at this point.

I had them out in the living room and they did really well for movies as well. I had them about 8 feet away, and I did think the imaging didn't seem as tight, but it may because I wasn't used to them for movies. Listening to these, about 5 feet seems to be the real sweet distance.

Brought them back to the bedroom, and will experiment with different placements. Realized in the new location, the reflection off the side wall was insane, so found an old blanket not being used and nailed it in. Instant fix. Ugly, but essentially free and works perfectly. The reflection and vibration is gone and things tightened up considerably.

So if you're looking at really versatile, amazing sounding speakers at a decent price for either mixing or just regular listening (and want to get rid of the stereo components), definitely consider auditioning these. I'd really like to hear the s5h monitors, but those start at 5 grand a pair. (and no one around here has any to audition) Those really supposedly take you into the mixing console itself (which is kind of what I wanted these to do, but they don't).
 
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Feb 10, 2018 at 8:16 PM Post #10,383 of 10,927
Moved into an apartment around 9 years ago.. Was forced (painfully) to pack up my drums and sit on my hands. Started with a simple computer system playing from out the sound card. Then discovered the DacMagic.
And, from there things kept evolving.

Then one day an idea came to me. I pictured my drum rack being taken out of storage and being put to good use...

Here is what came of it.

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Feb 10, 2018 at 8:22 PM Post #10,384 of 10,927
My current setup.

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Feb 20, 2018 at 12:50 AM Post #10,385 of 10,927
My new setup.

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Feb 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM Post #10,386 of 10,927
That stack of CDs is making me nervous. You might want to get some more CD racks.
Just looking out for ya buddy

Bought a new cd rack. Ikea - Billy

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Apr 1, 2018 at 2:08 PM Post #10,387 of 10,927
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Apr 2, 2018 at 9:22 AM Post #10,389 of 10,927
setup - Copy.jpg Here is my end result. My computer is off to the left of the computer hutch in the only spot available for it so I custom made a 14 foot USB cable. Basically in the cabinet I have five amps, a dac,Echo device, switchbox, and turntable. I have pre-amps out to two speaker systems on top of the computer hutch. I have the ability to have three headphones and the two speaker sets going at once. My next project will be a dual switch arrangement for testing four sets of headphone cables by switching them in and out of an amp/headphone circuit. I am always curious to know if people can really tell much difference between ofc, litz wire, occ copper wire, and silver wire.
 
Apr 2, 2018 at 11:36 AM Post #10,391 of 10,927
Very nice!
 
Apr 2, 2018 at 3:29 PM Post #10,392 of 10,927
Don't understand why the blacks in my pictures keep doing this when going from RAW to JPEG or PNG.

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Apr 16, 2018 at 5:59 PM Post #10,394 of 10,927
GEAR: PICTURES TAKEN WITH SONY A7Sii

PC:
Case- Raijintek Styx
Mobo- Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5
CPU- i5 6600k OC'd to 5ghz
GPU- EVGA 1080ti FTW3
M.2 SSD- 1TB Samsung 960 EVO
RAM- 16GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator
PSU- Corsair HX750w
Capture Card- Elgato HD60PRO (Used for streaming with A7Sii
Lighting- NZXT HUE+

2nd PC:
8TB raid 6 server for Plex

Monitors:
Main- Acer Predator X34
Secondary- Viotech GN24C

TV:
Samsung 55" KS8500 4K

Audio gear:
DAC/AMP- Audio-GD Reference 10.32
Headphones- HiFiMAN HE-6 self modded
Speakers- Adam Audio A7X
Mic- Audio Technica 4033 Special Edition

Peripherals/ on Desk:
Keyboard- Corsair K67 RGB
Mouse- Corsair M65 RGB
Elgato Stream Deck
Notti
Gear S3 Frontier
Samsung Galaxy S8 on Charger

DJ Equipment:
2x Pioneer CDJ2000 Nexus 2s
Pioneer DJM 900 Nexus 2
Pioneer RMX1000

Lighting:
4 Phillips HUE lightbulbs
2 Phillips HUE lightstrip
1 Phillips HUE Bloom
1 Nanoleaf Aurora

Other:
Nintendo Switch and Elgato HD60S
13" Ipad Pro velcroed to the wall next to my bed
Sony AS7ii
Razer Blade Pro 2017
Sig Sauer p226 mk25
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Apr 16, 2018 at 8:53 PM Post #10,395 of 10,927
GEAR: PICTURES TAKEN WITH SONY A7Sii

PC:
Case- Raijintek Styx
Mobo- Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5
CPU- i5 6600k OC'd to 5ghz
GPU- EVGA 1080ti FTW3
M.2 SSD- 1TB Samsung 960 EVO
RAM- 16GB DDR4 Corsair Dominator
PSU- Corsair HX750w
Capture Card- Elgato HD60PRO (Used for streaming with A7Sii
Lighting- NZXT HUE+

2nd PC:
8TB raid 6 server for Plex

Monitors:
Main- Acer Predator X34
Secondary- Viotech GN24C

TV:
Samsung 55" KS8500 4K

Audio gear:
DAC/AMP- Audio-GD Reference 10.32
Headphones- HiFiMAN HE-6 self modded
Speakers- Adam Audio A7X
Mic- Audio Technica 4033 Special Edition

Peripherals/ on Desk:
Keyboard- Corsair K67 RGB
Mouse- Corsair M65 RGB
Elgato Stream Deck
Notti
Gear S3 Frontier
Samsung Galaxy S8 on Charger

DJ Equipment:
2x Pioneer CDJ2000 Nexus 2s
Pioneer DJM 900 Nexus 2
Pioneer RMX1000

Lighting:
4 Phillips HUE lightbulbs
2 Phillips HUE lightstrip
1 Phillips HUE Bloom
1 Nanoleaf Aurora

Other:
Nintendo Switch and Elgato HD60S
13" Ipad Pro velcroed to the wall next to my bed
Sony AS7ii
Razer Blade Pro 2017
Sig Sauer p226 mk25

Damn... 0_0 That's crazy.
 

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