Hi,

I'm looking for a good store to buy highend professional PC hardware and music hardware for music production, including topend harddrives, master-slave systems, professional soundcards, ProTools, music software etc.

Either in the areas Bangkok, Krabi, Phuket, Nakhon Si Thammarat or anywhere nearby those areas.

Can anyone recommend me a few pointers to check out? The local pc stores here have mostly systems and hardware that's focussed on gaming and graphics, not so much on audio production, and most of the personnel isn't up to date with hardware meant for these purposes so talking with them can be difficult.

Thanks!

politely said, for the processing bit any stand-alone pc will do. for processing audio your computer need to do a lot of calculations. that is a thing, a good graphic card can do. reason,ableton and samplitute run pretty decent on hardware out of the shelf.

An important issue you want to look at is: What about lines? Do you have a digital rack/mixer? You certainly do not want process audio with your on-board chip set, there are kind of noisy - so to speak.

You may need a lot of inputs if your deck is not digital.

Having made some top-end computers I suggest you do some googling for "professional audio production on PC". The key items are the audio software, PSU, CPU, audio card and cooling.

Having made some top-end computers I suggest you do some googling for "professional audio production on PC". The key items are the audio software, PSU, CPU, audio card and cooling.

Yep. The audio card can be the killer, though, surprisingly, prices have fallen in the past few years. Depends on the number of inputs etc. The software is sometimes included with the card.

What DAW do you know / will you be using? Start there and work the hardware back. E.g Logic is Mac only now, Albeton has issues with some sound cards etc.

And what desk will you be using? Digital or analogue? This impacts your choice of sound card too.

Edited February 17, 201313 yr by bangkockney

When in Bangkok check out Music solutions on Petchaburi street, same side with Indonesian embassy going from Paantip plaza to the sky train station. They have some sound interfaces on sale. Also Fortune Town Rama IX intersection, 2nd floor between IT City and CP tower entrance.

I bought an Akai MPK mini from ProPlugin, about 500M south from Phahon Yothin MRT, and now they have an Ekamai location as flagship, I understand. They sell RME, MOTU, Avid, Focusrite, etc. (Talking about Bangkok locations in case it's not obvious) http://www.proplugin.com/

Market in Thailand not so competitive on price as US/EU !!

Edited February 17, 201313 yr by RandomSand

Having made some top-end computers I suggest you do some googling for "professional audio production on PC". The key items are the audio software, PSU, CPU, audio card and cooling.

perfect. can is ask a question? why in ~you religion here~'s name would you put computer next to your monitor speakers? Why spend 128$ on a gpu watercooler? Move your stock pc to the next room. Put it in a decent rack. think simple.

I bought an Akai MPK mini from ProPlugin, about 500M south from Phahon Yothin MRT, and now they have an Ekamai location as flagship, I understand. They sell RME, MOTU, Avid, Focusrite, etc. (Talking about Bangkok locations in case it's not obvious) http://www.proplugin.com/

Market in Thailand not so competitive on price as US/EU !!

Aye, sorry, forgot about this one. They are not bad, price wise and the choice of metal is not bad either. Was in their Lad Prao outlet.

I found Singapore to be cheaper and carried various bits back as hand luggage.

Cheaper price+airfare+accommodation= no profit, unless you are shopping for a Neve console in pristine condition.