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Post subject: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:14 am
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CDs? Vinyl? Radio? MP3? Streaming? What's your favorite way to listen to your favorite tunes?

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:28 am
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Mostly CD's nowadays. I really can't tolerate too much of the crap that's on the radio today.


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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:56 am
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Radio. I'm a firm believer in preserving radio. Though the large corporations have formulated it nearly to death, there's still good programing out there if you look for it.
CD's. Would be my second choice because of the convenience of listening in the truck during the day.
Vinyl. I still pull out vinyl once in a while. Mostly when company is over. It's a nice mood creator.
Ipod. This is how I learn new songs on the guitar. I have a really old one that still works fine.
Streaming. I should probably explore this since having a radio on at my office can be a little distracting for others.

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:22 am
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I burn my own CDs and listen to those while I'm driving. Once every couple of months or so I will spend some time listening to FM radio just to see if there's anything new and noteworthy on the scene. There usually is not. New perhaps, not so much in the noteworthy department. Mostly I hear about new artists at work. Lots of it is crap. If I hear something that piques my curiosity I will make a note of it and look into it later. Sometimes at home I will play internet radio on the TV-stereo setup while I'm puttering about the house but usually at home I just play my iTunes from the computer. I have a pretty decent set of monitors. It's quick and easy, sounds damned fine for a computer with more SPL than I really need and gives me ease of control over what I'm listening to.

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:33 am
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YouTube, College commercial free radio, alternative music.

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Streaming, or on Windows Media Player
I do not own or play any CD's

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:06 pm
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All of the above, depends where I'm at, at work it's computer or streaming radio. On a daily walk(s) I use my Zune. In the truck cd's or radio. Vinyl at home occasionally right now since turntable doesn't have a home, yet.


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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:40 pm
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CD's mostly...radio on occasion. I do have to agree that radio has been formatted to death, but I think that is due more to the state of todays music...99% of it sucks!

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:50 pm
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All of the above for me to. I have some playlists in iTunes that I listen to, mostly CDs for the road, and always searching the web for new stations to stream. This one's pretty good:

http://www.internet-radio.com/

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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:17 pm
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Spotify mostly, but my Spotify account has access to all my CD's that I took the trouble of ripping a few years back.

I find Spotify great for finding new music. Every once in a while I look up an artist I like, click one of the 'related artists' that Spotify suggests, add a few songs in my play queue and click a 'related artist' suggested for THAT artist, I keep going for a while and always find loads of interesting and often quite obscure stuff.


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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:34 pm
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Most of my cd collection is on my computer, youtube, satellite tv radio, occasionally regular radio, vinyl and tape sit in boxes in the garage lol.

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Post subject: Re: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 7:20 am
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With my ears.

For canned music, FLAC when supported.
When having to use MP3s, never VBR. The change in resolution is jarring to my sound sense. TANSTAAFL, and what you win on having a higher bitrate on the treble-rich parts, you lose on all the radical changes to the resolution.

For listening, a pair of Grado RS-1 (with hyphen) cans.
But most of the time, playing really loud on the car stereo. No-Fi.


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Post subject: Re: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:49 am
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arth1 wrote:
With my ears.


I was waiting for someone to say that. :D

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Post subject: Re: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:14 am
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Miami Mike wrote:
CDs? Vinyl? Radio? MP3? Streaming? What's your favorite way to listen to your favorite tunes?

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Pretty much all of the above in this order
CD ( in My car)
Radio (I drive 50 minutes to 1 hour to work, one way, 5 days a week)
Vinyl
Streaming
MP3 (I really hate the quality of this format)

I am thinking about Pono but I need to have a spare $400 USD, as Pono supports playback of high-fidelity audio of up to 192kHz/24 bit resolution, and from what I have read, this has a very live in your face quality. 24 bit resolution is what studios record at, and when you downgrade it to 16 bit a lot is lost in the transition
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Post subject: Re: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:15 am
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I have a HUGE collection of CD's...and a CD player that holds 101 CD's...load it, and hit "Random".

I do still have a small collection of Cassettes, that I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of (even if I have the same album on CD)---a lot of sentimental value I suppose. Plus mixed tapes of everything I loved in the era that I recorded them.

I also like to put on Pandora and stream music. You can pick or build your channels, and Pandora will play your favorite artists, and artist with similar music styles/tastes.
Have a laptop connected to HD television and my P.A. system.
For ME, YouTube is more for Live concerts longer than 45 minutes...don't have time or patience to sit there and look for 3 and 4 minute videos all night.

Finally; I have a Sirrius/XM satellite receiver, with lots of music channels.
Terrestrial radio USED TO be good when DJ's were allowed to play what they wanted...but seems like the Program Managers of these radio stations took over, and give their DJ's a list of what they HAVE to play...and it is the same songs, from the same albums, day in and day out, on an obnoxious loop---can't take it.


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Post subject: Re: How do you listen to music?
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:06 pm
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I drive for a living, but can't stand the radio so I have my mp3 player plugged into the van and spend all day driving round to music I know I like without it being ruined by adverts or presenters who love themselves too much.

At home I've been buying lots of vinyl recently, it just feels nice to buy something that feels quality, instead of a cheap crappy cd.


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