Category: Reviews

I preordered a pair of chocolate brown Future Sonics Atrios, which arrived 29 October 2010.

These things are amazing. Most fun earphones I’ve ever heard. For personal enjoyment, they beat the crap out of my Sony cans, my old Etymotic ER-4Ps, my Ety MC5s, the Klipsch S4s I tried out and anything else I can remember using.

These are just phenomenal. I use them with Comply foam tips and the seal is great. The seal with the factory medium bi-flange tips is okay in my left ear but doesn’t get a seal in the right.

I’m so happy with these IEMs that I’m just beside myself. There’s enough sparkle and detail to satisfy that critical listening part of me, the bass is insanely well handled (to my taste) and I love the color. They’re so good that in over a month, I haven’t even bothered A/Bing them to my Future Sonics EM-3s.

I’ve been auditioning IEMs lately. One side effect is that I’m reminded that I really like listening to music at home through loudspeakers but I didn’t have anything set up where we live now.

So I found my old Sony receiver and immediately discovered that it didn’t fit in our TV stand (too tall). We picked up a really nice unit at H.H. Gregg yesterday (Sunday) and assembled it. Very happy with it.

Now, what speakers will we use for now? I found my two floor-mount Bose speakers and set them up with the powered subwoofer. I don’t like this Bose system but I bought it when I was in my early twenties and didn’t know better.

Well, what speakers? I don’t care for surround sound actually, but perhaps I will if I try it done well (good receiver, good speakers). I’d like to try just a nice stereo/two-way setup, even for movies. If the bass feels lacking for movies, I can throw in a subwoofer down the road.

Okay, so what speakers? I’ve been looking on head-fi.org for budget speaker recommendations. The Infinity Primus P162 bookshelf loudspeakers come highly recommended. There seems to be a concensus that they’re a decent entry-level hifi speaker. (I worked my way down the price scale to these Inifinity speakers from the Sierra-1s up top ($800, shielded) and the Usher Audio S-520 in the middle ($400).

I settled on the Infinity P162s and ordered a pair from Audioholics.com a few weeks ago.