i heard some JBL4367's and they were fucking phenomenal

22k tho

I'm watching comfy's video on thrifting speakers and I'm kind of tempted to go out and find good speakers

passives

and buy an amp

No but if you want that more money actually means more good up to around the million dollar Mark

Damn, spending that much on audio shit seems like insanity to me

Also for dac pcm2904 is my new fave

Can you actually tell the difference past a certain point

with diminishing returns and all that

certain point of what

With loudspeakers yeah

price

what component are you talking about

Louder without distortion

yeah loudspeakers

oh just everything

yeah defo

hell you can even tell with good headphones, i was turning the orpheus up to like 110dB for moments and shit was still super clean

im not sure how but it was insane

god damn, how do your ears handle that

i'm not blacc and uaually i play things at a reasonable volume

hehe

i mean, im exxaggerating lol

i obviously didnt have a spl meter on me

but it was way past normal listening level

so like, any tips on thrift shopping old bookshelf speakers and shit?

honestly its a massive gamble

Look at the terminal for the wire

buy something that looks reasonable and buy an imm6 and EQ the shit outta em

You want binding posts not the little clips

That's a good rule of thumb for mystery speakers

Not always gonna mean they're good but the extra money spent there is a good sign

the old lepai 2020A+ amps are pretty decent if you can pick one up cheap

would pair well for some thrift speakers

damn, this audio shit is a rabbit hole innit

yeah

headphones are cheap even for TOTL shit

4k Utopia and 6k Susvara are fucking pennies compared to speaker shit

hell even if you wanna go big bux and get a 007mk2 with some mad tubes or an orpheus youre still on the lighter end of speaker systems

honestly the best way to stay out of it is just live in an apartment and use some decent cheap IEMs