Need help getting movie & music speakers (and amplifier) for my living situation
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Need help getting movie & music speakers (and amplifier) for my living situation

https://imgur.com/a/aBXENFX

So I am planning on making this corner of my large studio apartment the ultimate entertainment area. Currently, my record/tape player are routed on the other side of the room (Where I took the picture from) to my studio monitors, which isnt helpful when I am away from it since I primarily have nearfield monitors here. The TV on said corner that has alot of bass buildup as you can imagine, and dialogue is very hard to hear unless I turn up the volume considerably, which is inconsiderate to the neighbors above/next to me when it is late at night. I am looking for a good speaker situation (probably will be placing them on the dresser, under the TV) that can be clear from watching movies in bed, but also listening to music from anywhere around the apartment that isnt too woofy/bassy for the neighbors.

I realize this is a tough situation with wanting the speakers in the corner, but I feel like anything is better than the current situation. I also dont really know much about amplifiers if anyone has any suggestions while I'm here haha. My budget is $350 max for speakers and my location is Connecticut

Thanks!!!!!!!

u/spiralscratch77 — 3 days ago

Looking for a new haircut/style. Don't want to use product

So I've had the same hairstyle for years and am getting kinda bored with it. especially when it grows out like it is now, and the hair just kinda flops down on the side/corner. I know I know, it would look good with product. I have some weird sensory problem with using product also just don't have energy for it. I could be open to it if it's minimal but for the most part I like as little maintenance as possigle. I'd some kind of textured, alternative, punk-ish look but still kind of normal-job friendly, or even something along the lines of what I have now just thinkjng to see what else might look good for my face shape and whatnot. I am thinking about dying my hair black/dirty blonde if that makes any difference at all haha.

u/spiralscratch77 — 22 days ago

Is this the best cooling configuration for my setup?

PC noob here sorry in advance haha. I recently got a new tower due to desk space restrictions, I have a Lian Li B4 case and I feel like the fans are running maybe a bit loud? Which doesn't bother me too much and maybe it seemed quieter when it was in a glass case. but I just want to make sure I have the ideal fan for this setup. I have one extra fan from my old case, just no space for it anywhere due to the size. Anything I should switch? I kinda have that top fan going IN to help cool the CPU some more. but I've heard having the top ones in and out like that just move the same air in a circle and is pointless. thoughts?

Green= Fans

Red= Fan Direction

Brown= CPU cooler+Fan (pre installed in that direction)

u/spiralscratch77 — 22 days ago

How's this for a music production PC?

I'm looking to get mainly a music production PC made with some light gaming (Literally maybe once a year I'll pick up Fallout 4, Red dead 2 or Skyrim for a few months then never touch it again aha) and I'm wondering if all this looks good? Any thoughts? my main concern is the graphics card not sure how good or bad it is I don't want to spend too much money on something overkill or too little for those games either. I'm not picky with graphics just want it to run smooth.

Intel core i7 - 14700K

Asus TUF GAMING B760M PLUS WIFI II (really a fan of the thunderbolt option and plenty of USB!!!!)

Asus DUAL OC GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

Antec NX200M

Thermaltake Smart 500W

Noctua U9S (Already had this so would like to re use it for the next PC)

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u/spiralscratch77 — 2 months ago

[suggestion] HP Omen25l just died perfect time to upgrade, need suggestions for music production

Hey all, my PC is now useless and I figured I'd use this as a time to just get myself a new one and need suggestions. I am a musician/producer/mixer and thats my main priority. I have midi drums, midi keyboard, and 2 inputs on my interface, always running atleast 1 of them at a time, and a decent amount 2, and always running atleast a couple plugins. I also like to game a little bit here and there, mainly Fallout 4, Skyrim, Red Dead 2, Minecraft and like those to run smoothly at decent graphics settings, but by no means is a priority. Sometimes I will do video/photo production on photoshop/illustrator/premiere elements but nothing heavy.

I am most familiar with Nvidia graphics card and Intel CPU so I would love to stick with that family. It would be nice to re use the HDD since that has all my plugins, photoshop/illustrator files, basically all my work. Maybe re use the RAM. Not trying to break the bank but also want my music stuff to run smoothly with little latency in live tracking, and to futureproof as well as possible. Definitely want thunderbolt for the interface!!!!!!!!!

Here are the Omen specs I currenty have, which was never a huuuge problem with music but definitely wouldnt hurt to upgrade. any kinda upgrade from this I imagine would be beneficial haha:

Intel 10th Gen i9

Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 SUPER

16GB Ram HyperX Fury

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u/spiralscratch77 — 2 months ago

HP Omen 25L PC keeps telling me there's a bad fan (even though there's not) and freezing at the boot loading screen

Hey all, so my PC has been doing this weird thing where it'll give me the fan error (90b) even though all my fans are working. I go to start up anyway and about 10 seconds in, maybe less, the loading screen freezes and computer won't boot up. I've ran a decent handful of the extensive hardware tests, fixed files in command prompt and everything. I have even unplugged AC power and accessories and held down the power button to hard reset and still the same issue. it boots up just fine in safe mode so I'm gonna guess it's a software issue? I'm not sure to be honest I'm not too good with PCs but enough to not want to call a repair guy hahaha. Any help would be much appreciated!

u/spiralscratch77 — 2 months ago

Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 3 Won't startup. Tried everything

I got this laptop refurbished recently and it was great for a while. All of a sudden the screen started going black and losing function about 5 minutes in. Tried to turn it back on and it gradually stayed on for less and less time to where it is now. AKA will not work at all. Currently the symptoms are this:

Whenever I go to power on, it looks like the screen flickers but it's all just black. Same with the keyboard lights. Turns on for a sec but turns right off/non functional. Power indicator stays on though.

I have tried everything already:

Graphics reset key combination

Reset pinhole button

and I tried the thing where you disconnec both main and CMOS battery, holding the power button, then connecting just the CMOS battery and turning on with AC power, and that didn't work, in fact not even the power indicator turned on.

because if that it makes me think maybe a CMOS issue? I'm begging it's not a motherboard issue because I sort of just got this thing but it's been long enough to be out of its warranty. Any help would be super appreciated

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u/spiralscratch77 — 2 months ago