Hello hi-fi friends,
Like any other famous and useful forum, hifivision too has lots of silent suckers. I am one of them. I have been reading this forum for a few months now without bothering to post even once! But here I'm all prepared to ask my first question.
I am a newbie in the world of hi-fi and have never used any audio component that I feel is of good quality. The best I have had is Sony Ericsson HPM-70 (earphones) and Nokia HS-62 (headphones, probably manufactured by Sennheiser). The usual player is a desktop or laptop machine and source music-killer MP3s (128-192Kbps). I was aware with the fact that there are better headphones in the market but I considered Desktop/Laptop to be the best player one can have! Then came to know the word 'hi-fidelity' and in the company of guys like you, I realized that what I am aspiring to have is not even beginning.
I have decided to build a quality, budget, 2-channel home audio system. I have no budget in mind but would like to keep everything on VFM side. The upper limit at most is 1 lakh rupees (quite stretched) including every single component of the system. I will it over a period of six months or so and in phases. I listen to almost everything, from Hindi oldies to latest bollywood songs to old soft-rock to latest pop. I don't want a system that is bad at playing a certain genre, rather I would want something that can play everuthing decently.
The first step is receiver. I am a software professional and am quite attached to computers as such. Do you think it's a good idea to get a quality USB-DAC and make good use of music in my computer? I have been looking at various options, from Wolfson/TI DAC chips to Head-Direct EF2/Pico but am getting more confused by every minute. I would love to built a system around computer/laptop as long as I can still make it hi-fi grade.
So my question is, what do I need to do to make laptop my hi-fi system receiver. Will it ever be able to provide what a quality CD player (<Rs.25,000) can do, even if I spend the similar amount on it? Or can I get it achieve it cheaper... or costlier? Or computers are hopeless when it comes to quality sound?
Thanks very much!![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Like any other famous and useful forum, hifivision too has lots of silent suckers. I am one of them. I have been reading this forum for a few months now without bothering to post even once! But here I'm all prepared to ask my first question.
I am a newbie in the world of hi-fi and have never used any audio component that I feel is of good quality. The best I have had is Sony Ericsson HPM-70 (earphones) and Nokia HS-62 (headphones, probably manufactured by Sennheiser). The usual player is a desktop or laptop machine and source music-killer MP3s (128-192Kbps). I was aware with the fact that there are better headphones in the market but I considered Desktop/Laptop to be the best player one can have! Then came to know the word 'hi-fidelity' and in the company of guys like you, I realized that what I am aspiring to have is not even beginning.
I have decided to build a quality, budget, 2-channel home audio system. I have no budget in mind but would like to keep everything on VFM side. The upper limit at most is 1 lakh rupees (quite stretched) including every single component of the system. I will it over a period of six months or so and in phases. I listen to almost everything, from Hindi oldies to latest bollywood songs to old soft-rock to latest pop. I don't want a system that is bad at playing a certain genre, rather I would want something that can play everuthing decently.
The first step is receiver. I am a software professional and am quite attached to computers as such. Do you think it's a good idea to get a quality USB-DAC and make good use of music in my computer? I have been looking at various options, from Wolfson/TI DAC chips to Head-Direct EF2/Pico but am getting more confused by every minute. I would love to built a system around computer/laptop as long as I can still make it hi-fi grade.
So my question is, what do I need to do to make laptop my hi-fi system receiver. Will it ever be able to provide what a quality CD player (<Rs.25,000) can do, even if I spend the similar amount on it? Or can I get it achieve it cheaper... or costlier? Or computers are hopeless when it comes to quality sound?
Thanks very much!
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)