How do you listen to music?

[fhm555]

At home I use a small bluetooth speaker and my phone or laptop. Volume is low but response is surprisingly good. In my vehicles I use my phone and either go bluetooth or plug directly into the radio on my old work van. Wifey’s truck came with a premium sound package so it sounds really good. My old work van has speakers in the front and back doors and can get loud enough to be annoying to others at traffic lights, but I rarely run it that loud. About the only time it gets cranked is driving at highway speeds with the front windows down.

 

[Tom Bomb]

That's one impressive rig Must be a real joy to sit in and listen. I have a boofy brass Budai — inherited — lording over the racket here. Love your stone one. Same dude.

There's something timeless about sitting in a room, lights out, imagining you're at the show, in the studio, on the bus. Good imaging gets you there as the monitors vanish and can no longer be pinpointed Once there, you never want to leave.

Love those big twelves. I had a pair of locally crafted boxes that had one powered twelve and one passive cone in each box. And did they move some air. They're long gone but my way, much more humble, follows your principle — the dictates of Hifi are not so unreasonable.

It all makes sense to the ear. Many years ago, I got some largish Quadral bookshelf speakers that were better than all the speakers I'd ever had, better by a country mile. So I've stuck with them. If I had more readies I'd have followed your lead.

A few years back, I picked up an old Quadral center speaker — putting together a humble home theatre — but I wired it in out-of-phase. I was so disappointed. Thought it was a dud — had to EQ the living daylights out of it — before I woke up to my error ( a little slow on the uptake).

Good gear makes a world of difference. And it doesn't have to cost the earth.

I spent a decade not playing in bands, not gassing for music gear, and obsessively building a hifi.....

 

[cymbop]

There's something timeless about sitting in a room, lights out, imagining you're at the show, in the studio, on the bus. Good imaging gets you there as the monitors vanish and can no longer be pinpointed Once there, you never want to leave.

That's it. Always lights-out. Always using the imagination.

Once I got so enmeshed in listening to a later Miles Davis album that I had a brief fear that he would catch me watching and kick my ass for being in his studio.

 

[Tom Bomb]

I'm jealous ​

 

[cymbop]

I'm jealous

Come on over and let's have a session!

 

[Tom Bomb]

On account of my misspent youth, they probably wouldn't let me in

No matter. Imagination will get me there

Come on over and let's have a session!

 

[FilCo]

For music I've never heard before: Spotify through my Sonos rig for a couple hours every day. For music that I want to hear again: musicbee through a Black Lion Revolution to JBL monitors until I get pulled away.

 

[Geoff Wood]

Roon. Fed by Tidal and Qobuz, and soon by my 500+ CD's in addition ( the very few that are not already in my library ).

All highest resolution available. Beautiful interface. A small sample of the 1,575 FULL albums ( with artwork ) that I have loaded so far. Not cheap, but probably the very best in digital music delivery. It pushes the music from my local PC device to all of my "endpoints". Multi-room, Multi-goodness.

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Hope you're doing them lossless FLAC or ALAC

geoff

 

[CryingBass]

Hope you're doing them lossless FLAC or ALAC

geoff

Of course. SSD/m2 disk is cheap as are CPU cycles. No reason not to rip to lossless format. Got DBPower? Ripper for that. Now does anyone know where I can buy some time?

 

[Tom Bomb]

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I just dug out the skullcandy bash hat — great cans for going hands-free on the hoverboard
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[Zenbassie]

People like me who spend days in recording studios producing music a high quality formats are always a butt-hurt to think that most people will eventually listen on low quality streaming sites but that is the way it is.

It was always the way. Even in the pre-digital age, most people listened to music on cassette or cheap portable turntables.

 

[Zenbassie]

Home stereo system. I'm old school. Linn turntable. Cd deck. Marantz model 30 stereo amp. Klipsch Cornwall IV speakers. SMOKES! (4,000 Lps, 2,000 Cds.)

Same here. High end Naim Audio system from the 1990s, with CD and vinyl (Thorens turntable). I use Youtube for "research", but not for "listening".

 

[John Keenan]

It was always the way. Even in the pre-digital age, most people listened to music on cassette or cheap portable turntables.

never owned cheap sub standard, turntable i still have my jvc cassette deck, the set up i have had since aged 15 jvc ql a2 turntable, jvc tx-1l tuner, jvc ja-s22 amp jvc kl-v241 cd player, jvc kd-10 cassette deck, had a few loud speakers pair of eltax galaxy, then a pair of yamaha's a pair of nice keff q55.2, for the past year and half got nice pair of dali zenor 3 standmount speakers

 

[badinage]

3.5 months in now, I think I officially really like these ATH-M40x headphones for "plugged-up to a computer" type listening. Before these, I've used/owned/given away most of the usual suspects, and I've worn-out many pair of Sony MDR-7506. It's nice not having a curly-cord hardwired anymore, and these ATs seem to satisfy all my checkboxes. Just dropping a datapoint here in case someone ever searches it. I like 'em.