2025: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2025)

[vurt]

got round to racking my polimaths and qxgs

[ghettosynth]

Low voltage 4066s arrived today from Mouser. Ok, not complaining, really, just glad I can still buy certain chips in a DIP package. However, since I never order one or two, which would be pointless, all 25 came in a tube. Because of that, the box was big enough for several thousand more parts. Oh well, we do what we can. Signal generator boards are coming tomorrow, SPI OLEDs came yesterday, grungy reverb with variable clock is coming together.

Ok, I'm bending the rules, it's not gear, it's ingredients for gear.

[McLilith]

Low voltage 4066s arrived today from Mouser. Ok, not complaining, really, just glad I can still buy certain chips in a DIP package. However, since I never order one or two, which would be pointless, all 25 came in a tube. Because of that, the box was big enough for several thousand more parts. Oh well, we do what we can. Signal generator boards are coming tomorrow, SPI OLEDs came yesterday, grungy reverb with variable clock is coming together.

Ok, I'm bending the rules, it's not gear, it's ingredients for gear.

Speaking as the fellow who started this thread, it's all good.

You can't have gear without gear ingredients!

[McLilith]

As for "gear ingredients", I've been slowly acquiring bits and pieces for an upcoming Noise Box project, complete with various mics and sensors. I recently bought three different boxes of "misc small springs" from three different suppliers, just to have a wide assortment of bendy, pushy-pully, springy-sproingy, thwackable parts on hand.

[AdvancedFollower]

Didn't anticipate buying new speakers this year but my old Presonus Eris 3.5's started breaking up and crackling so I ended up buying a pair of Adam T5V's. Quite an upgrade though the 3.5's were great for the price.

[McLilith]

Didn't anticipate buying new speakers this year but my old Presonus Eris 3.5's started breaking up and crackling so I ended up buying a pair of Adam T5V's. Quite an upgrade though the 3.5's were great for the price.

Nice! I keep hearing on Youtube how those Adam T5V monitors have fantastic tweeters in them, and they're supposed to be one of the best monitors you can get in their price range.

Are you going to use them with a subwoofer, or do they sound fine on their own?

I'm asking, because I might be getting new monitors sometime in the future.

[AdvancedFollower]

Didn't anticipate buying new speakers this year but my old Presonus Eris 3.5's started breaking up and crackling so I ended up buying a pair of Adam T5V's. Quite an upgrade though the 3.5's were great for the price.

Nice! I keep hearing on Youtube how those Adam T5V monitors have fantastic tweeters in them, and they're supposed to be one of the best monitors you can get in their price range.

Are you going to use them with a subwoofer, or do they sound fine on their own?

I'm asking, because I might be getting new monitors sometime in the future.

Personally I use my DT1770 headphones to mix the bass since I live in an apartment complex and have to keep the noise down, but the T5V's do go quite low (50-ish Hz) so they'd be perfectly fine on their own without a sub for most genres of music.

I've only used them for a couple of days but I do find the mids and highs very smooth and pleasant. Something like the Yamaha HS5 would probably provide a more brutally honest sound, but the great thing about the T5V's (and the Eris 3.5's) is that they also double as regular speakers for casual listening without being fatiguing.

[fatprice]

Let me extend more on my gear. Mk4, HD490 Pro, MD441.. can you tell I'm a Sennheiser nut? Hmm let me see well that's about it folks minus the hardware above. I'll save the Gefells and the Neumanns for you good scholarly gentlefolk.

[ghettosynth]

Let me extend more on my gear. Mk4, HD490 Pro, MD441.. can you tell I'm a Sennheiser nut? Hmm let me see well that's about it folks minus the hardware above. I'll save the Gefells and the Neumanns for you good scholarly gentlefolk.

I've often thought that I would look great singing terribly into an MD441. Lovely mic. It would be like me buying a coach bag or something. The real deal, but it still doesn't matter. I can't even invent a psuedo-pseudo-justification for it though. You know, "you only live once", "you have to stop to smell the roses", it just has that price to bullshit-accounting ratio that I can't bring myself to engage in. I still want to buy one in 2025, and 2024, and 2023, ..., but I won't. Now, if I stumble into one at a garage sale, well, I'll jump on it. Don't laugh, my one and only Neumann was found at a junk meet.

[Alchemedia]

Didn't anticipate buying new speakers this year but my old Presonus Eris 3.5's started breaking up and crackling so I ended up buying a pair of Adam T5V's. Quite an upgrade though the 3.5's were great for the price.

Nice! I keep hearing on Youtube how those Adam T5V monitors have fantastic tweeters in them, and they're supposed to be one of the best monitors you can get in their price range.

Are you going to use them with a subwoofer, or do they sound fine on their own?

I'm asking, because I might be getting new monitors sometime in the future.

Dusty pots. Presonus wants $50 to repair them. Just disassemble and spray with contact cleaner.

[whyterabbyt]

Built the NTS-3, designed and printed this stand for it.

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(FWIW, I bought that red transparent PLA filament in 2016, I'd have thought it would be useless by now but the Bambu handles it perfectly, with perfect-fit accuracy in the print. And so fast; it printed in just under 20 minutes. Finally a proper tool, not a 'project.')

[Sonic Illusions]

Bought the same palm tree led lamp for €5.

[vurt]

Built the NTS-3, designed and printed this stand for it.

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(FWIW, I bought that red transparent PLA filament in 2016, I'd have thought it would be useless by now but the Bambu handles it perfectly, with perfect-fit accuracy in the print. And so fast; it printed in just under 20 minutes. Finally a proper tool, not a 'project.')

ooh nice!

[vurt]

this looks fun

[McLilith]

this looks fun

Yeah, that DOES look fun!