Porta-Fi: Shoddy Goods 092
1Where are you at on the audiophile spectrum? I bought some reasonably high quality but still fairly small speakers for my TV set-up…in 1999. Still using those! And I basically gave up on all headphones and even most other speakers once I got my Airpods. Do you go all in on sound quality, or are you more about cheap and convenient? Let’s hear about your sound set-up and audio gadgets in this week’s Shoddy Goods chat.
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Depends.
At home, I
havehad a personal 7.1 channel set-up within a pod of tables (work desk, rolling chair, two stands to the sides). My television had 5.1 surround sound. I had those obviously large headsets.Then things change, furniture gets rearranged, wires have to be pulled back, padding erodes, soundproofing gets expensive, and I’m stuck with whatever’s cheap and on-hand.
I was really into surround-sound setups like 20 years ago. With the advent of modern soundbars + remote subwoofer, I can get all the sound quality I really need now. I do like my airpods as well.
This email amused me to no end. I have a Porta-fi console and a few speakers. I have only actually tested the speakers on the same power strip I had the console plugged in to though. I can’t imagine with all the LEDs and switch mode power supplies in a modern home it would work well at all a Ross a home like it was intended, but it sounded quite good all plugged into the same power strip!
Are you literally asking the Meh user base “are you more about cheap and convenient?” ???
Did you forget who you were talking to?