Audio Setup - Talk to me

Dempsey22 · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:33

Need some help guys. I've sorted pretty much every part of my system recently except for audio.

I had a pair of DT990s before and loved them so just picked up a new set as I had to sell the old ones. I didn't rush into buying a dac/amp.

I'm looking to run monitor speakers for music and then the headphones for when others are in the room.

What's the best way to achieve this? I'm not clued up on studio monitors, passive or active etc etc.

If anyone can chime in with suggestions I'd appreciate it.

Budget around 400.

Dempsey22 · 18 Oct 2017 at 21:55

Marsman said:
Could grab a SMSL M6 DAC/headphone for a bit over £100 then 2 JBL LSR305 monitors for a bit over £200.

Looks good to me. Im not too clued into audio so how would all these connect together?

I'm currently using 2 cheap speakers and a sub that just connect to the audio jack on the mobo, get interference when no audio is playing.

Dempsey22 · 29 Oct 2017 at 14:48

rids57 said:
the stack is now the Schiit Modi 2 Uber and Magni 3, which has replaced the Magni 2 Uber - it is £50 cheaper, has the same functionality and sounds better

Bought those already and arrived a few days ago

Dempsey22 · 29 Oct 2017 at 17:55

bfar said:
Are these a good solution for driving speakers?

I'm going using them to drive LSR305s anyway so hopefully they will be.

Dempsey22 · 9 Nov 2017 at 09:23

madindehead said:
@Dempsey22 Did you end up buying the JBL LSR305 speakers too? I'm looking at this exact setup, was just wondering how you were getting on with it.

I actually haven't got around to purchasing them yet mate, I bought 4TB HDD and 512GB Nvme drive instead, hoping to order them soon.

Dempsey22 · 11 Nov 2017 at 17:16

mistersprinkles said:
They're not driving anything except your headphones. The 305's have their own built in class D amplification. The RCA outs on the DAC come in 2 sets. One goes to the headphone amp the other goes to the LSR305's. get yourself a dual RCA to dual mono TRS 6.3mm cable for cheap from the rainforest. Sorted.

You won't beat the 305's in their price range. Horn loaded tweeter too. Awesome speakers.

Before I pull the trigger, can I go dual RCA to dual XLR also ? I presume it makes no difference?

Dempsey22 · 11 Nov 2017 at 20:39

rids57 said:
You would need to connect the Modi 2 Uber to the PC via USB or optical (SPDIF)
Then connect the Modi to the Magni 3 via RCA
Then connect the LSR 305 to the Magni 3 using RCA cables with RCA to XLR adapters at the speaker end or RCA to XLR adapter cables

Magni 3 & Modi 2 are all connected up, using them as I type. Just wondering when I'm connecting the LSRs to the Magni that I purchase the right cables.

Dempsey22 · 11 Nov 2017 at 21:33

rids57 said:
Two of these... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Pho...pID=41puFMaMTyL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

Dual RCA to Dual XLR will probably have the cables joined all along the length, which you don't want as the speakers won't be next to each other.

Perfect mate thanks. I don't have the LSRs ordered yet as they aren't top priority, hopefully soon though.