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Audio and the "jet set" - please help

Hi all,

It's looking like my life will be global for the foreseeable future, with 2-3 year stints in countries all over the world (including the U.S.). This poses some challenges for my audio obsession. Constantly changing voltage requirements and shifting room sizes mean that long-term planning is difficult. Are there others in this situation? How do you cope?

I've tried a few things. Shifting away from speakers to great headphones is what I'm doing now, especially because space is very limited, but in the end, I'm a speaker guy. I've also tried to focus on components with switchable voltage, but in the end this is just really limiting. I've thought about relying on step-down transformers, but this scares me a little (should it?).

Anyway, I'd love to hear from any of you in similar positions who have found ways to make it work.

Thanks!
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t_bone
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If I were going to be constantly on the move, I'd want a pair of AKG K1000s and an amp to drive them with to which I could apply a stepup or stepdown transformer. I'd feed it with a DAC with my music on a Mac Mini.

If I was going to be in place for 2-3yrs, I'd probably want some speakers. If you use bookshelf speakers, you need an amp big enough to drive them which means voltage change is a problem. As to small speakers which would work in a small room, I'd look at the small Maggies introduced last year or the year before.
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