Setup guides written for people who shop in pounds
Setupfind exists because of a specific, repeated frustration: searching for what a home studio or streaming rig costs, and getting back guide after guide priced in dollars, recommending gear no UK retailer stocks, picturing a room roughly twice the size of a British spare bedroom.
So we built the sterling version. Same subjects, checked against shops that actually deliver here, planned around rooms that actually exist here.
What we will and will not claim
Most gear sites imply they have personally tested everything they recommend. We have not, and being straight about that is the whole point of this page.
Every price is sourced and dated
Figures come from live UK retailer listings, multi-retailer comparison indexes, or published government data — and each one carries the month it was checked, because prices drift and a guide without a date is a guide you cannot trust.
We show you disagreements
When published sources contradict each other — and on things like audio latency they routinely do — we print the conflict rather than picking whichever number sounds most authoritative. You are better served knowing the evidence is unsettled.
We say what we have not done
We are not a lab. We do not measure frequency response or run thermal benchmarks, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every guide states plainly what is first-hand experience and what is research.
Why this matters more than it sounds. A site that claims thousands of hours of testing it never did will eventually recommend something on a manufacturer’s say-so and dress it up as tested.
We would rather tell you a price came from a comparison index than imply we took the thing apart. It is a smaller claim, and it is one you can check.
Affiliate links, stated plainly
What we earn
Some links on Setupfind pay us a commission if you buy through them. It costs you nothing extra, and it is what funds the research time behind each guide.
What it does not buy
Commission never decides what we recommend. We link to retailers who pay us nothing where they have the better price, and several guides end by telling you to spend less than you planned.
The clearest example: our microphone guide concludes that a cheaper USB mic plus £90 of acoustic panels beats a more expensive XLR chain in an untreated room. That advice costs us money. It is also true.
One person, named
Paul — founder and editor
Paul started Setupfind after one too many American gear guides priced equipment he could not actually buy here. He works in digital research and SEO, which is the skill this site genuinely runs on: finding what is true, checking it against primary sources, and writing it down clearly.
He spends his own time on music production, including supporting an independent Afrobeats artist — work where a session budget is a real number rather than a hypothetical one. That is where the pricing discipline on this site comes from.
He is not a studio engineer or a hardware reviewer, and Setupfind does not pretend otherwise. What it offers is disciplined price research, UK-specific context, and a refusal to recommend anything on the strength of a press release.
Spotted something wrong? Prices move and specifications change. If a figure on this site is out of date or simply incorrect, we would rather hear about it than leave it up — corrections are the cheapest way to stay worth reading.