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Does anyone have any experience of getting anywhere near decent sound
out of the above - I will be spending some time with my lap-top being my
only source of music.

All contributions gratefully received
--
Paul Naylor
Panoply Consultancy

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"Paul Naylor" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience of getting anywhere near decent sound out
of the above - I will be spending some time with my lap-top being my only
source of music.

All contributions gratefully received
--
Paul Naylor
Panoply Consultancy

Buy a set of headphones...headphones will outperform portable speakers..if
portability & sound quality is your prime concern.

I've had several PC speaker systems and they're just about OK...but
certainly not anything brilliant. And some of them aren't portable (2.1
system, with mains plug)

Checkout Grado or Sennheiser phones, then get a portable headphone amp (one
at £50 should do)

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"Paul Naylor" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any experience of getting anywhere near decent sound out
of the above - I will be spending some time with my lap-top being my only
source of music.

All contributions gratefully received
--
Paul Naylor
Panoply Consultancy

Buy a set of headphones...headphones will outperform portable speakers..if
portability & sound quality is your prime concern.

I've had several PC speaker systems and they're just about OK...but
certainly not anything brilliant. And some of them aren't portable (2.1
system, with mains plug)

Checkout Grado or Sennheiser phones, then get a portable headphone amp (one
at £50 should do)
Thanks for the suggestion but I do have various sets of headphones and,
none-the-less, I do like to listen to music without them.
--
Paul Naylor

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"Nath" wrote in message
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Checkout Grado or Sennheiser phones, then get a portable headphone amp
(one
at £50 should do)

Where can you find headphone amplifiers, in the UK, at £50? My last search
only came up with units aimed at the professional market, seemingly built to
withstand being dropped, driven over etc. and priced in the middle £100s.
Thanks
--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

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"Nath" wrote in message
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Checkout Grado or Sennheiser phones, then get a portable headphone amp
(one
at £50 should do)

Where can you find headphone amplifiers, in the UK, at £50? My last
search
only came up with units aimed at the professional market, seemingly built
to
withstand being dropped, driven over etc. and priced in the middle £100s.
Thanks

DIY or get one built up. A Cmoy should cost under £50, or Aphead (slightly
better design) for a little bit more. Check ebay, one bloke builds cmoys for
£30 in a sweetie tin...mate bought a twinstar black for around £60 (sent
from Canada) do a worldwide ebay search for headphone amplifier.

Although personally don't like the idea of a headphone amp in a conductive
casing or the battery rattling around and smacking in the components, I
would pay a bit extra and get a cmoy fitted into a plastic case.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

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In article ,
Paul Naylor wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of getting anywhere near decent sound
out of the above - I will be spending some time with my lap-top being my
only source of music.

All contributions gratefully received

Can they be mains powered and with a separate sub?

I got a 'Cambridge' set from PC World for not a lot of money and they're
not bad. For the price.

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*What happens if you get scared half to death twice? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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"Malcolm Stewart" wrote in
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"Nath" wrote in message
...

Checkout Grado or Sennheiser phones, then get a portable headphone amp
(one
at £50 should do)

Where can you find headphone amplifiers, in the UK, at £50? My last
search
only came up with units aimed at the professional market, seemingly built
to
withstand being dropped, driven over etc. and priced in the middle £100s.
Thanks
--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

and here's the link to Twinstarr Black..

http://www.twinstarr.com/twinstarr_black_apheared.htm

Overall it's a good amp for the money, it's slightly bright sounding but
paired with a dull/warm phone should fix the problem if it's too laidback.
It does drive my phones better (Grado RS-1) than portable DAP, and the
op-amps are socketed, so could always fit others instead (ie 2227) for a
different sound.

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"Paul Naylor" wrote in message

Does anyone have any experience of getting anywhere near decent sound
out of the above - I will be spending some time with my lap-top being
my only source of music.

All contributions gratefully received

What do you call decent sound?

"I canna dchange the laws of physics" - Scotty on the origional Star Trek.

For me the solution was In-Ear Monitors.

'm a long-time user of headphones going back to
some Telex phones I bought in the early 60's, followed by a pair of Koss
Pro-4s, and then on, and on, and on. To position my current tastes, let me
say that my *main* headphones for stationary listening are Sennheiser
HD-580s and Sony MDR 7506s. I use Koss UR30s for some casual listening,
monitoring and testing. My portable players include a Nomad Jukebox 3
playing .wav files, and an Audiovox CE149MP CD/MP3 player. I'm an avid
amateur recordist and owner and proprietor of the www.pcabx.com and
www.pcavtech.com web sites. I also use a number of different sound cards
and a Rane headphone amp with various headphones, including the slightly
unusual pairing of the LynxTWO audio production sound card with the HD-580s.

But, we're on the topic of In-Ear-Monitors (formal name for this product
category), so here are a number of items that I use, with US & UK prices.
They all may be worth consideration, just pick a price point!

Koss "The Plug" $19.95 US$ I got a pair from Circuit City on a whim, and
they turned out to be easily worth twice the price. IMO an unbelievable
value. I notice that there are UK sources pricing them at like £12. The
sound is more like 580s than 7506s.
www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/*files/graphics/$file/THEPLUG_l*g.jpg

Sony MDR EX-70 or MDR EX-71 $33-40. More bass and treble than "The Plug" but
that might mean that "The Plug" is smoother. A little less efficient. I
notice that there are UK sources pricing them at like £25-£35. The sound is
more like 7506s than 580s. http://www.hogwildstore.com/so*nmdrex71sl.html

Shure E-2 used to be about $80, now selling for more like $100. The E2c
differs from the E2 in terms of packaging. More highly robust than Hi-Fi.
Very smooth but rolled off at both ends. With a little equalization they can
sound very nice. Did I say that they are very mechanically and electrically
robust? I notice that there are UK sources pricing them at £77.00 and up.
The sound is more laid back than 580s.
http://www.shure.com/earphones*/eseries_e2c.asp

Etymotic ER-6 about $120. Originally, I thought the ER-6s were horrible,
but I played around with my collection of earpieces until I got them to
be tolerable. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/e*r6.asp

Sennheiser IE3 IEMs turn out to be FutureSonics' EM3 EARS about $150. IMO
the best sound of the group discussed here. They are reasonably effiicent
and have excellent bass and treble response as well as smooth midrange.
http://futuresonics.umsebiz.co*m/sto...5&*item=370255

Generally, In-Ear-Monitors deliver the ultimate in "close-up" sound. Many
take advantage of the physical seal and tiny enclosed volume to deliver some
of the most ear-popping but non-boomy bass you've ever heard. The E-2s have
enough bass roll-off that this is not usually the case unless you apply some
eq.

They inherently provide considerable reduction of ambient noise, which is
both the good and bad news. If you are using them and someone wants to get
your attention...

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In article ,
Arny Krueger wrote:
For me the solution was In-Ear Monitors.

Some of us use cans for work, and can think of no greater torture to use
them for pleasure. :-)

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*Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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In article ,
Arny Krueger wrote:
For me the solution was In-Ear Monitors.

Some of us use cans for work, and can think of no greater torture to
use them for pleasure. :-)

Know what you mean. My approach is to use 7506s for work and HD580s and a
variety of IEMs for pleasure. For example, IME its a lot more comfortable to
go to sleep listening wearing IEMs than cans.