Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
As for me I have bought an amp/dac combo to run this (quite cheap one - FiiO e10k ~ 75$) and it works great for me, getting to very high volume even not on the max scale with zero distortions.
I may recommend you get these and test it out how it works for you, if you notice the volume is too low, just grab quite cheap dac/amp combo as I mentioned and you're good to go.
Regard a mic - I guess since you're short of money you're not going to use a interface as a connector for your mic, but a simple plug&play to motherboard (usb mic), if that's the case, the best one available on the market now is the Blue Snowball iCE Condenser - https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Snowball-iCE-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B014PYGTUQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1505309053&sr=1-3&keywords=snowball+ice
Has the best sound quality and noise filtering, will be great for streaming/discord etc'.
and connect a mic to it via XLR for best quality, you can also connect to it your headphones plus a mic like this for e.g https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Professional-Broadcasting-Recording-Microphone/dp/B00XBQ8UGG/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=andrhuan01-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=464c7c6be0c095f9f4cb3831b5aac603&creativeASIN=B00XBQ8UGG (which works great with an interface) here's a video showing you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiuElvxEFw
That way you can either improve headphone quality/amp them and receive best recording quality(for guiter+singing)
If I were you I'd go this path, but since I don't use a mic so I'd go for dac/amp instead an interface.