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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just wondered how you guys listen to music. I have vinyl, CD and MP3. However,I find more and more I am listening to MP3, especially since I hooked my PC up to my hifi, I have copied loads of CDs on to MP3 and its a great space saver. The sound is fantastic and I honestly cant tell the difference between playing a CD and an MP3 from my hard drive. Its the way forward, or are you all luddites?  | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 147 Registered: 04-2005 |
I prefer the sound of vinyl on a good component system, but I so rarely get the chance to listen that way--maybe 5% of my listening is vinyl or CDs on my home system. About 90% of my listening is done on the iPod these days, with its digital sound and nasty little earbud headphones (though I have upgraded to some a little better than the ones that came with the iPod). I love the iPod dearly, but would be the first to admit it isn't the best way to hear music. The final 5% of my listening is in the car. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 182 Registered: 03-2005 |
I listen at home on an elderly but good quality component system. I use CDs almost exclusively. I also have a CD player in one car and I listen when I am using that particular car. I like the car environment because, like it or not, when I'm at home I have too much of a tendency to multitask and the music does not get the attention it deserves. In the car, the music surrounds me and can have nearly all my attention. There is a small proportion of my listening which happens on a Bose CD player at work but I usually have too many other distractions there. I plan to get an iPod when I change over computers sometime this year. My seven year old laptop won't support anything. At that point I also intend to put an iPod dock in the other car (the one without a CD). I am still too much of a Luddite to be ready to simply download music. I like having the solid object that holds it, i.e., the CD. I suppose that will eventually have to change. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
CD in the car, and on the PC. Stuff I've ripped to the PC is played on i tunes software. I borrow from the local library ay 90p per CD per week and rip it to the PC if I like it enough. I've got hours of stuff that way. If I really like it I might be tempted to shell out as I am still a sucker for good sleeve notes etc. I have never sold any of my vinyl collection and didn't have a deck for years after my old died. I recently bought one for £49 and linked it my daughters Sony micro-system, great stuff. The weird things is handling the LP's which feel huge.(I never call them albums on principle, as far as I am concerned the likes of Foreigner et al make "albums" I prefer LP's or for more ironic retro subversion "long players" - that really gets up the noses of Hi-Fi bores. Oh and I don;t catalogue them or keep them in alphabetical order !! remember the scene in Diner when she gets bawled at for not refiling the records properly. She's right, just play the bloody things ! I used to have a Stereogramme which played my postcard collection very effetively in that Lo-Fi charity shop punkish way. STUFF yer Trevor Horn production values.... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 183 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wilson, I am whipsawed from your impassioned Pink Floyd encomium to "STUFF yer Trevor Horn production values . . . ." You don't let a person fall asleep at this screen. I like the antiquated word "records." | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 183 Registered: 10-2004 |
vinyl is always the preferred medium for me. i have tons and tons of records, and for me, nothing beats a good, clean record played on a decent turntable. i even recently got a new cartridge that has further enhanced my enjoyment of vinyl. cds are fine, but kind of boring. i only buy cds when the LPs are impossible to find, or non-existant or way more expensive (or when the cds are reissues with snazzy bonus discs). mp3s are fine, as long as they're of good quality, but i mainly listen to mp3s at work. i have a gazillion mp3s on my computer at work so that i don't run out of stuff to listen to there. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Just been to look up "encomium" and "whipsawed" and I have to agree with you ! yes, It's a strange contradiction isn't it. My copy of "Simply Thrilled Honey" sits very uncomfortably alongside "Dark Side of the Moon" on the shelf. Even more interesting is that Floyd could never cover Simply thrilled or I need two heads, for all their "musicianship". That's because there is something other than music captured on those singles.I would love for a DJ to play a postcard single at a packed "80's music night" just to see the look on the Tony Hadley fans' faces.... | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 144 Registered: 09-2004 |
I have an old hand-me-down Rotel amplifier (from a relatively affluent Aunty) plus a beautiful Technics turntable. My only gripe is that the arm isn't automatic. The speakers, by a company I've never heard of named DDK, are fairly large and old but give great clarity without overbearing bass. Up until a couple of weeks ago I had a great Sony component CD player with several functions that lasted me eight years, and that was bought secondhand. At the moment I'm playing CDs through my cheap TEAC DVD player. Contrary to popular opinion about CD players not differentiating in sound, it certainly has a tinnier and thinner tone than my Sony to my ears. I also have a Kenwood double-tape deck component that I rarely use as it gives off an ominous electrical hum and I fear will one day give me a shock (I bought it from an oppurtunity shop). In the car I have the Holden factory tapedeck in my shitbox '86 Camira. At work I listen to the sound of screeching tires and a whirring conveyor belt. No iPod for me, I'm afraid. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 177 Registered: 05-2005 |
iPod on the bus to work and when out for a walk. A Technics record player and Panasonic CD player put through a Denon amp (there is also a double tape deck - bought from an op shop - and a tuner which are very rarely used). The deck and CD player are both about 15 years old. The former could do with replacing. The latter is OK for a while yet. Some kind of Sony boombox in the kitchen - for CDs and ABC News Radio. Computer at home whenever I am on it, playing mostly mp3s (m4as actually) and sometimes CDs. Computer at work occasionally. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 65 Registered: 07-2005 |
I guess there a similar thread, When I have a day off usually a thursday I try and listen to records, when my daughter is having her sleep. O ther times its CD's in the car or the Ipod when I'm walking the dogs and things. I've got the imac connected up via wifi to the hifi which is convenient but doesn't sound as good if you compare the two. Like you Randy if I change cars I'll get a ipod connection point fitted. If I do long journeys then I've got an fm transmitter for the ipod which is good. I rarely listen to music at work but will listen to BBC/KCRW on line | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 12 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kind of related to this: it is possible to play your iPod through a car radio without a dedicated connection point, by using an FM transmitter, bought from the likes of www.everythingipod.com (though there may be legality issues in the UK). Personally I use my iPod most of the time, though I'm starting to use my vinyl again (Dual CS515 turntable, Rotel amp, floorstanding Tannoy speakers). Around 10% of the near-3000 songs on my iPod are Go-Betweens or GBs related (all the 2-disc CDs, the Lost album, the best-of with the radio broadcast extras, the most recent three CDs, the John Peel 4-track CD, the CD from the DVD release and most of the solo output. Oh, and the tribute album...). A quick request - I seem to have lost/mislaid the second two discs of the Chills Secret Box 3-CD set (very annoying because it's impossible to buy and now quite rare!). If anybody out there has these, could anybody burn these onto CD for me so I can put them on my iPod. Or better still, I'll buy them! Cheers. | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 67 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bloody techies. I have a cd player, a record player, a tuner and an amp. No idea what make without looking. we have a digital radio/cd player in the kitchen. I have no ipod. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 38 Registered: 04-2005 |
Simon, I can help you out on the Chills Cds! I also seem to remember there being some artwork (.pdf) available that I might still have on my hard drive. Anyway send me your 'real' address and I'll do copies for you. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2005 |
Andrew, that's great. I've sent you an email. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very interesting thread this, I dunno bout you lot but I am a bit pissed off with technology, I wanna hide everytime I hear Steve Jobs' name, (although I am a MAC lover and will always be a a MAC lover). Having said that, been thinking long and hard about all of this. What I would like is to have every song I own as an MP3 song, stored in i tunes, then transported around in the car via an ipod that plugs into the car stereo, but the ipod needs to have digital radio, unless the car stereo does, and whereever I play my ipod needs to have a good set of speakers then, I'll be happy. If, I ever own a house with a massive spare room, then I'll activate my vinyl again, and buy a nice expensive deck, just for the old time feelings and the sheer rustic pleasure of it all... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 16 Registered: 01-2006 |
i'm not very technical at all so it's mostly a Pioneer CD player and a Project Turntable that gives excellent sound...no iPods, no Macs....and mostly tapes in the car... I only get second hand vinyl too.... | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2005 |
I prefer listening to CDs. I'll download 7" and 12" b-sides or otherwise unavailable stuff and write them to a CD as I don't have an iPod. I only buy vinyl as a last resort if I want the songs and they're not available on CD or online. My idea of heaven would be a central store that holds a copy of everything anybody might ever want so that I could dial in and listen to whatever I felt like whenever it took my fancy. Then I could empty out my living room and my loft of all the useless old tat that clogs up my life. I don't really believe in "owning" this stuff. If I could just listen to it on demand that would be perfect. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 186 Registered: 03-2005 |
I confess that I'm resisting the concept Eke is announcing, but I think that is the wave of the future. I simply do not remember all the things I like but if I have it tucked away on a shelf, I'll see it and pull it out again and, voila! In fact, that's how I really got into the GoBees: I pulled out my old "1978-1990" antho one day to try playing guitar to it and went "wow, this stuff is really great!" And here I am, a wonky bulletin board regular. The chief reason I want an iPod is so that I can load a whole bunch of my collection into it and hook it up in the car. I generally only drive old cars so I won't have one with modern sound gear unless I put it there. It will also be nice to have the computer facility to transfer music files which I do not now. I look for a combination of fidelity and ease of use and that's why I like CDs in the house. With vinyl, everything wears out and if I walk across the floor the wrong way, the turntable arm goes skittering across the record like a ballerina. But in a car, the iPod is the obvious choice. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 36 Registered: 01-2005 |
100% on cd these days. I have a 1974 vintage Dual 701 turntable that needs some service, so my vinyl is gathering dust in the basement. My BIC Formula 6 main speakers (made in England)are also from 1974 and still sound great. I have a vintage 1994 Yamaha Pro Logic receiver and a Yamaha 5 disc changer. I bought some Difinitive Technology rears and a center speaker 6 years ago. I also listen to cd's at work (I rotate about 60 of them) and in the car. I'll probably get an I-POD sometime, but I have a lot of home improvement projects for the inside of the house the next couple of years that have priority. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 160 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love the plinth deck audiophiles! I wish I had the patience!! Trying to download a vinyl track from the internet must be difficult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the one thing about ipods, is like Sony's Walkman, everyone walks down the street ignoring the hell outta one another, that indeed means forging bad manners upon society, the amount of people walking around oblivious to human courtesy is astonishjing, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr kids, and pensioners!!!!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 175 Registered: 08-2004 |
I have an ipod for the car & work, but I don't use it for walking the streets. Too risky around here. Instead I use the ipod earphones with my crappy old walkman. Hopefully someone will try & mug me for it, the look on the killers face before he cuts my throat will be priceless. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 41 Registered: 04-2005 |
In one sense, it would be quite funny if all those stories of CDs being unplayable after a few years came true. Especially after transferring all of your rare vinyl to CD and then giving all the records to your local charity shop. Vinyl lives! |