Many music lovers, audio and headphone enthusiasts have the need to choose a set of hifi equipment. So what kind of audio product should I choose? When everyone makes choices with such needs, there will be a lot of questions and face many products and various opinions. Products will be targeted at various uses and prices, and there will be insightful opinions in this view and misleading them. This article tries to give some suggestions from the perspective of being as fair and objective as possible, hoping that it can help you.
Due to its limited level and knowledge, this article may not necessarily be correct. If there is a difference from your opinion, you can discuss it. But if you think that your opinion must be correct and you do not accept the argument, then you are correct.
1. Who is suitable for hifi products
First of all, you have to have spare money and are willing to invest a certain amount of money and energy in it. This is nothing nonsense, haha. The literal translation of hifi in English is "high fidelity". Since it is a high fidelity product, it will not be too cheap. Of course there are not too expensive products, but there are certainly compromises in some aspects. If you have a small budget and are unwilling to accept compromise, you will basically take detours. In addition, no matter how much you buy the product, it has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no perfect product on the market. While enjoying the advantages, you must also endure the disadvantages. This must be kept in mind! This world is fair, and many products have corresponding disadvantages when they have certain advantages. As long as you are perfect and cannot accept any shortcomings, this kind of thought or what you want to give this kind of thought to you is misleading.
Secondly, you have to be obsessed with music or sound quality than others. The literal English translation of hifi is "high fidelity", which means that it focuses on restoring the recording. This type of product has priority sound quality rather than function. Remember, there is no hifi product with good functions and low-priced performance. People who like hifi audio products are called enthusiasts, why is it called fever? This means that we are not normal people, hehe. If you are a little paranoid about using normal common sense of life, just smile (for example, those who use thermal power and wind power to satirize your views). Since you have chosen to have a fever, don’t care too much about the opinions of ordinary people.
Third, you have to have a separate room, at least the desktop is needed. One thing to note is that room size is the key. Although listening distance and acoustic processing are also important, it is unrealistic not to expect a desktop to be used to dive into a box with a 40Hz dive. The size and quality of the environment directly determine the upper limit of your system. raising the budget is often useless at this time (not only is it useless, but it is also a reaction, such as low frequency integration).
2. How to choose a set of hifi speakers?
is first of all, it is your usage environment, it is more important than budget, secondly, your listening preferences, and secondly, the budget. After these points are settled, the first thing you need to determine is the speaker selection, followed by the amplifier, the sound source is followed by the peripherals and supporting facilities.
First, choose
desktop and small rooms (about 10 square meters) according to the environment. At this time, you only need a pair of 4-5-inch small speakers. Dive 55-60Hz at low frequency is enough (desktop or even 65-60 is OK). This type of small box product is very rich, don’t be greedy for big things. Choosing high-quality products is much more important than choosing a pair of big ones.
Natural sound NS14, desktop voice
small and medium rooms (about 15-20 square meters), at this time you can increase your budget more on the speaker. You can roughly choose a pair of boxes of 5-6.5 inches, with low frequency potential of about 50-60Hz. Premium products are much more important than greed for big products. I would rather have smaller premium products than larger shoddy products.
The general living room and a listening room of more than 20 square meters. At this time, if your listening range is relatively wide, you can consider a larger speaker. Bookshelf with low frequency potential of 40-45Hz. For entry-level enthusiasts, it is generally not recommended to choose floor-standing speakers. It is difficult to play with this kind of box well, and the investment required will increase exponentially, which requires extremely high environmental requirements. Many old enthusiasts dare to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ground.
30 square meters of listening room or large living room (30-40 square meters), congratulations, this environment is slightly processed, the whole pair of natural sound NS17 can better play its strength, but the investment will not be low (the speaker costs about 15,000 yuan, plus the amplifier is 25,000 yuan). However, even bookshelfs that reach this level are not cheap, and usually start at 30,000 yuan.
Although many people strongly recommend large speakers, the author has always been the other way around, rather than being smaller than being greedy for big ones. Low-frequency diving is the key, the deeper you play, the more difficult it is. Cheap landings are usually mostly good (AV boxes are typical). For beginners, choosing a pair of smaller boxes is easy to play and save money, and it is easier to get some upgrades in the future (the bigger the speakers, the higher the second-hand discount, and the more difficult the transaction).
Second, choose speakers from the perspective of music
If you just like pop songs, folk , saliva song , choose low frequency diving 55Hz level enough, and then 50Hz is the end. Although choosing a lower one will be better, investment will also rise. If you don’t have enough budget, try to consider high-quality small boxes.
If you like classical symphony and JAZZ and other categories (that is, some omnivorous), then 50Hz is the starting level, about 5.5-6.5 inches can be done.
Large classical symphony and other music require the speaker to reach 40-45Hz, which is about the level that a box of 6.5 to 8 inches can reach (of course, not all boxes of this diameter can achieve, because I have already mentioned in the previous article). At this time, the investment required by the system will not be low. At this time, the imported speakers have been directly matched to 30,000-50,000, even if they are domestically produced, they are around 20,000. At this time, the cost-effectiveness of NS17 is reflected, with 15,000 yuan per pair, and 25,000 yuan per set to handle it.
super large symphony, piano concerto, movie acoustic music and piano music require low frequency diving below 40Hz, which is already the range involved in top speakers. Some people claim that they cannot listen to such opinions above 30Hz or 40Hz, which is not understood. Or it was misled by many random marking parameters, and the flagship box of JBL only dives at low frequency to 40Hz.
In fact, the speaker does not stop immediately under the nominal low frequency. The low frequency attenuation of inverted speaker is about 24db one frequency doubled, and the closed type is 12db. That is, for closed speakers with nominal 50Hz-3db, the energy attenuation of 25Hz also reduces by 12db. When playing music normally, the loudness is about 90db, and the sound that plays 25Hz also has a loudness of 78db, which is still very obvious. This is why those speakers that do not mark +/-3db have to be marked to 30Hz at will. If you swipe the frequency, you will find that they still have a considerable loudness in the corresponding frequency. However, the low frequency characteristics of many active speakers are fast-cut, which is obviously the result of EQ improvement. This advantage is that low frequencies sound better to dive, but the disadvantage is that once the sound pressure increases and dynamic increases, the low frequencies will be messy and become a piece of cake.
Music Here, if the budget is enough and the environment is fine, you can consider a better speaker. Good speakers are usually downward compatible, but the other way around is not.
Third, considering the budget from the perspective of budget, if you only consider imported products, the budget will be greatly increased (under the same quality and performance). Therefore, when the budget is insufficient, considering domestic brands will save a lot of money. However, the risk of choosing a domestic brand will also increase accordingly and it needs to be identified by yourself. If you have the chance, it is the safest to listen (thanks to Taobao for the seven-day no-reason return and exchange, which actually makes the choice relatively easier). If you don’t have the chance, you can make some rough judgments by listening to the online recording. However, the quality of online recordings is not uniform, and some manufacturers need to identify them by themselves through near-field recording or fake recording of real original tracks. Some equipment only use a certain type of music for recording (such as pop vocals), which largely reflects the low practicality of the equipment for music or has obvious defects, and needs to be identified by oneself.
First, the system budget is less than 5000
This budget is not a big problem. For passive speakers, , most of them are 3-5-inch full-frequency or small-diameter crossover speakers (such as natural sound NS14 or NS16), or the amplifier is about 3500-5000 yuan. For the rest of the budget, you can consider a small tail (a portable decoding headphone amplifier that costs several hundred yuan, small size and good sound quality) or decoding. Using a mobile phone or computer as a sound source can also meet the basic requirements. It's very good on the desktop and in the study.
High-quality speakers are not a big problem to meet the needs of popular voices, rural areas, JAZZ, and classical small and medium-sized editors on the desktop or small room. Don't be greedy at this time. I would rather sacrifice some low-frequency performance than pursue higher quality vocals and high-frequency performance.
Second, the system budget is 5,000-10,000 yuan
Although there is a famous saying "Listen to a sound below 10,000 yuan, you can still choose good domestic brand premium speakers, such as Sound Technology MC15, Nature Sound's upcoming NS16 second generation, Nature Sound NS15 and Meizhisheng Monitor No. 1 and other speakers. Some imported high-quality speakers can also be selected, such as Prince Dani and ATC. SCM7 and P3 after rain, etc. However, the matching is basically tens of thousands.
If it is a budget, you can consider the combination of NS15 and A80, and the sound sacrifice is very small. You can also decode the budget of 2,000 yuan (such as natural sound DAC-1). Or buy a CD machine with good sound quality or an entry-level digital broadcast first.
is about 3rd, 10,000 to 20,000
at this price. There are many domestic high-quality speakers, and you can also get a good set of imported ones. It can be considered a system that can jump into the HiFi pit. However, if imported, the general quality can only reach the HiFi entry-level level, but the tuning will be better. On the other hand, using the domestic quality will be the HiFi advanced level, but the tuning will be generally better. It's a bit worse. Let's see. In the price range of
, the natural sound NS15 and A120 amplifier can be used, while NS17 and A120 can be used all over the audience, haha.
budget of 4th and 20,000 or more
actually has a budget of 20,000 or more, but there are many. And quite a lot of people actually bought a set of entry-level hifi equipment at such a high price, and they feel good about themselves. It's not worth spending this in vain. At the price of
, even if it's imported, you can buy some mid-range boxes (of course, only boxes, such as the Super Five after the rain, ATC19 and other things). If you buy a domestic product, you'll definitely have a mid-range set (it's not ruled out that there are many tall, powerful but not powerful products in China. Please Don't take the seats in the right way. If you use the NS17 rain pre-level and A300 post-level, it's almost over. It's very comfortable to enjoy all kinds of music in the large living room with the surroundings (this is how I play, haha)
3. How to allocate the budget?
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speakers generally do not allocate too little budget, but you must leave a considerable budget for the amplifier (this will be somewhat different depending on the speaker), because you need an amplifier that can exert the strength of the speaker. A good amplifier is usually not too cheap. Although many people will recommend you to buy a speaker with high sensitivity, it seems that you can save some money on the amplifier. But what the author wants to say is: Don't! There is a price to improve sensitivity, low-frequency diving, calm sound, and energy will easily sacrifice in the process of improving sensitivity.If you want to be an adult (if you don’t do multiple-choice questions, we all want), then the price of boxes with high sensitivity and low frequency must be high (it must be used for a very large unit). What is really important about
is balance. Generally, don’t choose particularly difficult to push (such as ATC’s Xiaoqi, 11 and other types). Nowadays, speakers will not be too difficult to push. Generally, stone machine amplifiers can easily reach more than 50 watts, and 100 watts are not expensive, so it is not impossible to listen to a pair of bookshelfs. A pair of 100-watt amplifiers cost only three to four thousand yuan. For example, the Natural Sound A120, 130 watts cost only 3,999 yuan, and the sound is completely trustworthy. It is easy to push away the average 5-6.5-inch speaker (it is OK to push Xiaoqi).
In addition to speakers and amplifiers, the sound source and surroundings also require a considerable budget. If your room is small and your budget is sufficient, you can make a more budget on it and buy a higher-end one. The thing about audio source is that choice is more important than budget itself. The most mature and easy-to-make acoustic is the CD machine. I myself use a CDM4 turntable and my own DAC-1. The effect is very ideal. The price is only over 4,000 yuan. If you want to be cheap but are afraid of choosing the wrong choice, there are several Yamaha units that have good results and cheap prices. If it is domestic, Shan Ling and Zhong Shen are both very good. Digital broadcasts are second, but they are more expensive. As far as I see, computers are the most difficult to deal with. The same effect is the most expensive.
Next article will continue to talk about some questions or opinions that are easy to be misled or encountered during the selection process. Look forward to it. If you have any questions or questions, or your own opinions, please leave a message below to discuss (it is unnecessary if you don’t want to discuss).
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