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09-25-2006, 02:46 PM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| What is your preferred Audio System? I'm curious. This forum has quite the diversity in folks background and age. Surely our music tastes run the gamut too. But the younger generation has embraced music portability over preference to sound quality. It is typically (though not always) a rather severe tradeoff that audiophiles abhor. So I ask, what is your primary music equipment? Are you an iPod/MP3 person? Use a docking station? Only your computer with chinsy speakers and perhaps a "subwoofer"? I put that in quotes because some of today's "subwoofers" are actually nothing more than a bass-module. Do you own a large stereo with floorstanding speakers? Perhaps you are just using a 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound system that doubles as your music system too. What's the concensus? [I'll post mine a bit further down]
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09-25-2006, 03:13 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: WSM, England
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  | I use my iPod for the main, and when im online I listen to it all on the computer. When my parents are out though ill put a CD on my humble hi-fi and crank it right up loud...To be honest though i'd like a few vinyls, but I dont have anything to play them on... My parents have an awesome hi-fi stack system though with some bad-*** floor standing speakers, which are also rooted to some nice Bose speakers in the living room which are pretty neat...shame they listen to poor music through em though... |
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09-25-2006, 03:27 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| I only listen to talk radio. All I need is an AM radio. Hmmm......... I should start an internet WW2 aircraft "talk" station. It could automatically read the messages in here and do a text to speech conversion.
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09-25-2006, 03:32 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Ipod when I am on the move and then computer when I'm not. Hook it up to the stereo with a CD line in cable and turn it up...
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09-25-2006, 06:04 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003
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| MP3 on the go, CDs i'll play on my little Hi-Fi which is also where i listen to a lot of radio, a lot of music stored on the computer and my absolute favourite, my tiny sony radio, mono speaker, batteries only need replacing a couple of times a year i've had it for as long as i can remember and i dunno what i'd do without it.........
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09-25-2006, 06:22 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London
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| MP3 player for going to work, a small JVC radio/CD player in my home office. In the evenings I use my Hi Fi. Pioneer Amp, Marantz CD player, NAD turntable, Wharfdale Speakers, Denon Tuner |
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09-25-2006, 08:43 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Campospinoso (PV), Italy
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| Gulp, I feel like a dinosaur, both for the media used and for the approach in listening music... Anyway: Vinyls (michell gyrodek/maywareV/denon 304+stanton881/rotel RHQ10 phono pre) and CD (Marantz CD10) + self-built tube pre, Rotel RHB10 PA, self-built speakers at home. I also have a pair of QUAD (34+306) that are currently disconnected but that I will NEVER sold CD in the car, gear was bundled the car (and sounds pititiful...) MP3 when nothing else is available/practical (and sounds like krap...) No music when at work, the only time I can stand background music is when driving.
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09-26-2006, 12:08 AM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Impressive Glider and Parmigiano. I fully understand the portability of MP3, but on a decent stereo system that format has little or no impact, no dynamic range, sounds compressed, and is fatiguing. My audio system. I'll spare everyone the video portion. B&W 703 speakers Rotel RB-1080 200wpc Amp Rotel RC-1090 Preamp Panasonic Surround Sound Reciever Sony 200-Disc Multichanger Soney ES Single Disc CD Velodyne Subwoofer
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09-26-2006, 12:24 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London
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| very, very nice. |
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09-26-2006, 10:59 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Campospinoso (PV), Italy
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| Great stuff Matt, I always liked B&W sound (long ago I had the DM2a that I foolishly sold for a crumb). I once listened a Velodyne sub (can't remember the model) and I was really impressed. Glider, is your NAD turntable the old model, the one derived from the belt drive AR turntable?
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09-26-2006, 11:24 AM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| I guess I'm a purist. Once you've heard music beyond the MP3 format, you never go back. I like the MP3 format for portability, but I think the technology is excessive. Who the hell wants 5000 songs on a little portable device? Who the hell HAS 5000 songs, let alone the time to listen to them? My 200 disc CD changer contains CDs in it that I rarely ever hear a single cut from. 5000, 10000 songs? On a portable? The demise of the CD has arrived. Soon it too will be relegated to the way of the DoDo and vinyl. We already have CD, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-R/W, SACDs, etc. Certainly this technology has reached an end with the popularity of the compressed file MP3 format. Unfortunately, we are losing some musicality with that choice.
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09-26-2006, 11:28 AM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Quote:
I really would like to see your self-built tube pre-amp.
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09-26-2006, 12:46 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Deep in suburban Surrey
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 | B&W? Yes, in fact Hell Yes! Bose? NO! one thousand times NO! stop spending your money on vile, useless, crap! Signed - Someone who has been in the business 18 years...
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09-26-2006, 01:24 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Oh I don't know Clave. While MP3 is not audiophile, or even decent stereo, quality it does have it's place. I too have a Bose Wave desktop system. While it does have its limitations, it makes a great radio for the nightstand. Here's a good example of where a 5 hour MP3 CD comes in handy.
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09-26-2006, 01:26 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Deep in suburban Surrey
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| It's Evil I say... 
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