Boomboomshakeshake
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Hey all so I need some hand holding here. I love my music. I am always wanting a better mind-blowing sound experience only I am an audiophile trapped in an amateur's body and want to learn. I wish I had a consultant who could come look at the system I currently have and give me a total assessment and recommend what I would need based on what I am hoping to achieve. My eternal search since about middle school has been for bigger, better, louder, more bass ever since my first cd player for Christmas.
I know nothing about audio and want to know, like I literally need a beginners crash course to understand any of the discussions I have been skimming through here since joining.
Explain it to me like a 2 year old!
My plan is to go home today and take some pics of what I have. It is very old and there is a part of me that is going to struggle immensely with breaking up with my old school equipment if I need to but I don't know anything about it! No idea if it is good or not. My floor speakers were a prized gift from my mother years ago from Best Buy, a pair of KLH speakers. I had had an old pair of crackly old ones from the 70s or 80s that came with a turntable system from a thrift store. I loved it because it was the real deal from the 1970s but it was garbage lol. We had seen a sale in the circular ad and she offered to take me to go get a new pair. I was disappointed when we learned the sale price was *per speaker*. I thought that meant no deal but she decided to go for it and spend the money to buy me both anyway, YAY!
They have been my besties since but they have seen better days. I think one or both have actually blown one of the speakers but not sure. I have a hard time considering if it is time to part with them if only for sentimental reasons. My boyfriend hates them. He insists they are too big and tries to convince me (unsuccessfully) that technology has improved so much (since the late 90s early 2000s) that you no longer need a big honkin' pair of speakers and can get a really good pair of Bose bookshelf speakers or something that will deliver the same sound. I don't want nice quality sound. I want mind blowing earth shattering night club sound so I can be swallowed up by my EDM and disco and rock. I want J horn speakers. I want blow away like Marty McFly. I don't know that I will have the money for that kind of sound anytime soon but I would like to have a plan and know now what my goal should be. I always fantasize that one day if I ever won the lottery I would build a nightclub for myself lol. I love parties and entertaining and playing DJ at my tiki bar (separate story) and use a pair of bluetooth Ecoxgear speakers up there for that. They're alright, but still could be better when I am having a party.
Currently, my stereo is in a small room. The components are in a console cabinet with the floor speakers on either end of the cabinet and my turntable remains collecting dust in a closet unhooked up because there is no where to put it. I realize this is maybe or probably not the ideal setup but this is the space I have at this time. Will follow up with images and/or specs later. Right now 99% of the time I am playing music from YouTube through my tv that is connected to my stereo. It is absolutely, I realize, not going to deliver the best sound quality. Other times I will hook my phone up with the aux cord and it does not take long for the sound to completely fall apart as I turn the volume up and get crackly. Again, I think I accidentally blew something out recently trying to crank my volume full blast. I can't really use my extra bass ( I do not yet have a subwoofer) because it gets too crackly when I do. Most of the music I want to play these days is only available to me as digital files, as I said, streaming from the internet. I wish I had it all on cd or better yet, vinyl, but we are talking 1000's of songs, here. My stereo is pre-bluetooth by like 2 decades although I do not know exactly how old everything is. I bought the components used from an audio shop in 2005.
Is there any willing volunteer out there to become my audio guru/mentor/guide/teacher?
I know nothing about audio and want to know, like I literally need a beginners crash course to understand any of the discussions I have been skimming through here since joining.
Explain it to me like a 2 year old!
My plan is to go home today and take some pics of what I have. It is very old and there is a part of me that is going to struggle immensely with breaking up with my old school equipment if I need to but I don't know anything about it! No idea if it is good or not. My floor speakers were a prized gift from my mother years ago from Best Buy, a pair of KLH speakers. I had had an old pair of crackly old ones from the 70s or 80s that came with a turntable system from a thrift store. I loved it because it was the real deal from the 1970s but it was garbage lol. We had seen a sale in the circular ad and she offered to take me to go get a new pair. I was disappointed when we learned the sale price was *per speaker*. I thought that meant no deal but she decided to go for it and spend the money to buy me both anyway, YAY!
They have been my besties since but they have seen better days. I think one or both have actually blown one of the speakers but not sure. I have a hard time considering if it is time to part with them if only for sentimental reasons. My boyfriend hates them. He insists they are too big and tries to convince me (unsuccessfully) that technology has improved so much (since the late 90s early 2000s) that you no longer need a big honkin' pair of speakers and can get a really good pair of Bose bookshelf speakers or something that will deliver the same sound. I don't want nice quality sound. I want mind blowing earth shattering night club sound so I can be swallowed up by my EDM and disco and rock. I want J horn speakers. I want blow away like Marty McFly. I don't know that I will have the money for that kind of sound anytime soon but I would like to have a plan and know now what my goal should be. I always fantasize that one day if I ever won the lottery I would build a nightclub for myself lol. I love parties and entertaining and playing DJ at my tiki bar (separate story) and use a pair of bluetooth Ecoxgear speakers up there for that. They're alright, but still could be better when I am having a party.
Currently, my stereo is in a small room. The components are in a console cabinet with the floor speakers on either end of the cabinet and my turntable remains collecting dust in a closet unhooked up because there is no where to put it. I realize this is maybe or probably not the ideal setup but this is the space I have at this time. Will follow up with images and/or specs later. Right now 99% of the time I am playing music from YouTube through my tv that is connected to my stereo. It is absolutely, I realize, not going to deliver the best sound quality. Other times I will hook my phone up with the aux cord and it does not take long for the sound to completely fall apart as I turn the volume up and get crackly. Again, I think I accidentally blew something out recently trying to crank my volume full blast. I can't really use my extra bass ( I do not yet have a subwoofer) because it gets too crackly when I do. Most of the music I want to play these days is only available to me as digital files, as I said, streaming from the internet. I wish I had it all on cd or better yet, vinyl, but we are talking 1000's of songs, here. My stereo is pre-bluetooth by like 2 decades although I do not know exactly how old everything is. I bought the components used from an audio shop in 2005.
Is there any willing volunteer out there to become my audio guru/mentor/guide/teacher?