Gift ideas for an Audiophile

[altonbr]

My brother-in-law is a musician and I'm trying to figure out what to get for him.

As a computer nerd, I'm helping him build a PC for low-latency sound recording, but to actually purchase that PC is well above my price range.

So for all you audiophiles out there, what sort of gift would you really enjoy on Christmas morning, that costs between $60-100 CDN/USD?

Headphones?
1TB hard drive?

[handy]

A chainsaw. ;-)

[treesurf]

If your brother-in-law listens to music on the go (i.e. mp3 player) then, of course, he needs a high end set of noise isolating ear buds. This is an excellent set that just gets into your price range:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SCL2/

[uc50_ic4more]

I record music professionally, and like to consider my ear to be well refined enough to apply the "audiophile" tag, and I can tell you some of the best $15 - $30 purchases I have ever made were audio reference CD's. These can include music CD's that were produced by audiophiles for audiophiles, on down to test CD's with varying bleeps, bloops and sine sweeps to help calibrate sound systems.

It is very, very, very difficult to find any audio devices - headphones, speakers, mics, heck, even *cables*, that are audiophile grade for less than a gazillion dollars. One of these CD's could really help the recipient develop their ears; a gift which will prove invaluable over the long run!

[altonbr]

I record music professionally, and like to consider my ear to be well refined enough to apply the "audiophile" tag, and I can tell you some of the best $15 - $30 purchases I have ever made were audio reference CD's. These can include music CD's that were produced by audiophiles for audiophiles, on down to test CD's with varying bleeps, bloops and sine sweeps to help calibrate sound systems.

It is very, very, very difficult to find any audio devices - headphones, speakers, mics, heck, even *cables*, that are audiophile grade for less than a gazillion dollars. One of these CD's could really help the recipient develop their ears; a gift which will prove invaluable over the long run!

Hmm, that's pretty interesting. Can you give me a reference?

[billgoldberg]

The new Britney Spear cd, what else?

[Npl]

If hes "Audiophile" in the sense of "Placebo", then this is the right site for gifts (http://www.machinadynamica.com/) :p

Particulary the pebbles are invaluable
http://www.machinadynamica.com/mikro-pebbles.jpg

And the teleportation tweak is nice aswell