How to rock it in the dorm room.

Folsom · « **on:** 7 Feb 2006, 10:54 pm »

I would have my turntable but there is no where to place it right now... I use to have a board running from desk to desk but I switched rooms.

The speaker stands are my latest addition. They are TNT stubby shorts

. I put some brass screws through the bottom, so the total price was next to nothing as opposed to $2.30 a spike.

Well before to long Frankinstien will be gone, my external harddrive enclosure will have a harddrive in it!

miklorsmith · « **Reply #1 on:** 7 Feb 2006, 11:19 pm »

Rock the Quick Oats, Rock the Quick Oats, YEAH.

Love that one.

Are you sowing your wild Quick Oats?

Do you offer the girls bowls of steaming Quick Oats?

Folsom · « **Reply #2 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 12:24 am »

Quote from: miklorsmith

Rock the Quick Oats, Rock the Quick Oats, YEAH.

Love that one.

Are you sowing your wild Quick Oats?

Do you offer the girls bowls of steaming Quick Oats?

Hey I got brown suger right next to it. I actually usually just eat normal cereal for breakfast.

JoshK · « **Reply #3 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 01:49 am »

Where do you go to school?

I half expected to see a huge pair of Cerwin-Vegas in a cramped dorm room from the title.

Folsom · « **Reply #4 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 02:41 am »

University of Montana.

Heh more like TB's, Frankinstien, TNT stands, 9259 Belden wiring (soon some nicely done 89259), off of Foobar2000.

My roommate however has a Teac "150x5" (hahahahaha) $150 surround sound reciever and "$400" MTX loud crap speakers. Yeah I go nuts when he plays his music.

JLM · « **Reply #5 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 10:30 am »

The roommate I had for the longest used to co-op at Electro-Voice, so we had a supply of their B-stock speakers. Nothing like one or two pair of 10 cu. ft. 15 inch three ways (horn loaded mid/tweeters) in a 11 ft x 14 ft cylinder block room to wake you up in the morning.

miklorsmith · « **Reply #6 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 03:04 pm »

I used to have a big pair of Cerwin Vegas in a cramped dorm room. Priorities, priorities.

In one apartment, my buddy and I joined systems. We had 4 Advent Legacys and 2 mid-size Klipschs, bi-amped, with about 1,000 watts of cheap amplification. The rock band downstairs asked us to turn it down a couple times.

Ministry on that system was something to behold.

fiveoclockfriday · « **Reply #7 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 03:39 pm »

Ahh memories...having just graduated a few months ago, these days are still fresh in my mind. I have to admit your title brought to mind a few more pictures of general debauchery, very late nights, and a few (and I mean very few, lol) choice encounters with lovely classmates.

Looks like a good setup though, far too many people I knew had multiple subs, computer speakers, "600w" receivers and other incredibly bad sounding equipment in tiny dorm rooms, all of which they thought sounded awesome. To each his own I guess.

Folsom · « **Reply #8 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 09:30 pm »

Quote from: fiveoclockfriday

Ahh memories...having just graduated a few months ago, these days are still fresh in my mind. I have to admit your title brought to mind a few more pictures of general debauchery, very late nights, and a few (and I mean very few, lol) choice encounters with lovely classmates.

Looks like a good setup though, far too many people I knew had multiple subs, computer speakers, "600w" receivers and other incredibly bad sounding equipment in tiny dorm rooms, all of which they thought sounded awesome. To each his own I guess.

I go nuts listening to their stuff.... Very few kids will sit down to listen to my little setup. When I say listen you know what I mean.... No one takes the time to think about what they are hearing. Well one kid does and I told him I would give him some of my old stuff cause he loves music.

For the price of free except the speakers, PVC tube, sand (needed more for sand blaster any how), 8 screws, 4 eyelets and one threaded rod..... I bet any one on this forum would be impressed.

My digital even with just my T42 IBM laptop ( I bet any one on here would be with out a doubt amazed at the ability it has to produce sound) I have almost arrived at a similiar state I take with vinyl. With vinyl I can hardly stop listening, I enjoy it, I make body movements.... I do this on a few songs with the digital front end now, and I have yet to through in my 3875, XM1's, PS10, all modded, with a 20hz capable 5.25 subwoofer from Tangband I am going to build. My desktop system is a blast.

I plan on a green board DAC later... I also thought about buying a M-Audio 2496 USB version, well what ever I get has to be USB. Then when I compare my T42 IBM with my previous computer that had an Audigy 2 which in tests is as good or better than 2496 M-audio cards..... The laptop is leaps and bounds ahead of the Audigy and hence the M-audio.

For the record if I am playing no sound, with full volume on laptop.... I can turn my volume up 100% and I have to put my ear up rather close to hear any noise. Considering I have a jumble of cords all over it may not even be the laptop.

Now when my roommate plays his HURT MY EARS $400 MTX crap boxes with the Teac amp through his T42..... Itunes and MP3's gag me. However even with his I can hear much more detail than any one would expect through a laptop let alone his CRAP.

Rory B. · « **Reply #9 on:** 8 Feb 2006, 09:36 pm »

Ha - my dorm room sports a H/K AVR 335, 20" Toshiba TV, two DIY MTM stand-mount speakers (with midbass drivers from Def Tech BP8 and Seas H537 tweeters), and a 500W powered subwoofer with an AE Speakers AV12 and two AE Speakers PR15 15" passive radiators. Sometimes I like to educate my neighbors on the nature of REAL bass. It's what you'd expect from a Purdue University student, though. Tunes are served up from an old Celeron 500 machine that I put a quiet CPU fan and power supply into, so it's quiet (though not as silent as my main PC). When my roommate has his computer on, though, it drowns out both my computers, and it's not even very noisy.