Double Bass Audio Systems. How do we listen to music?

[Hummergeist]

Nearly all my music listening is done out of the house, as I work or travel, on AirPods Pro. I'm simply too restless to sit down at home and listen to music, it'd be like torture for me. I don't own any vinyl or CDs or cassettes, and I like being free of the burden that they were; it's all streaming for me.

 

[Jason Sypher]

Nearly all my music listening is done out of the house, as I work or travel, on AirPods Pro. I'm simply too restless to sit down at home and listen to music, it'd be like torture for me. I don't own any vinyl or CDs or cassettes, and I like being free of the burden that they were; it's all streaming for me.

I have excellent audio equipment that sounds glorious but the truth is the same for me. I process music on the go. The AirPod Pros are so incredibly useful. I think they’re Apples best product in a decade. No, they are not audiophile quality listening, but the ANC is phenomenal and I get plenty of joy from them wherever I happen to be.

 

[Greg Clinkingbeard]

These guys are good - in Burbank, CA.
(I Am Not The Mayor Of Burbank.)
https://www.atomicrecordsla.com/

I’ll be right over.

 

[JBarz]

I’ve had an aversion to headphones for the past 20 years or so, but have been doing some critical listening that has turned me back on to them in a big way recently. Crank ‘em up and close your eyes and everything else disappears. It’s great!

TIDAL —> IPhone 13mini —> Apple DAC dongle—> JDS Labs O2 amp —> Grado Sr325

 

[CryingBass]

I’ll bet those Grado’s set ya back more than $5 bucks eh?

 

[Tom Winter]

Aall i listen to is through headphones. Beyer Dynamic DT 770. Not too expensive. Great.

 

[JBarz]

I’ll bet those Grado’s set ya back more than $5 bucks eh?

Pretty modest at about $200 used, if I remember correctly. The amp was around $100. Good pair, though. Amp is super clean and sterile, so the Grado color really comes through.

 

[Eric Hochberg]

I've been enjoying Sennheiser Momentum 4 phones lately. Good NR for flying and sound good in general.

 

[longfinger]

For me, playback is a mix of my Behringer B2031 monitors on my computer, Logitech speakers to an iPod or PC, built in speakers of an iPad streaming, various headphones, or CD player to home speakers. Most recently a return to listening to live FM radio on those same home speakers. Live radio folks!

I had the 3rd gen Apple AirPods for a month, and they really work great with seamless pairing between Apple devices, and to me sounded excellent, until they kept falling out of my ears. They would not stay in, so I returned them

I don't listen to as much music "out loud" as I should. A lot of times I replay mental recollections of music. All in the mind.

I do recommend buying / downloading purchases of music you really like. Streaming has the big pitfall that if the corporation for some reasons replaces a specific recording with a remaster/lyrics edited/ remix etc recording, then suddenly that is what you only have access to. The other one is no longer available. But when you download it, you have it. Ditto obviously for physical media.

 

[Bruce Calin]

I recently sold nine linear feet of LPs to a used record store in my area. I still have several feet of ones I wanted to keep. The store owners are real LP geeks and claim to have hundreds of thousands of vinyl discs. A friend of mine I hadn't seen for a while was in the store and bought one I had sold. He saw my name on a sticker on the cover and the next time I saw him he said, " I was afraid you'd died!".

 

[jmpiwonka]

Took a $55 chance on this tape deck. My newer Denon is stuck on high speed. The listing said it was clean inside and only needed a belt (I replaced all four as it wasn’t as difficult as I feared). The listing turned out to be accurate. Sweet, I can play my tapes again…but the auto repeat of the Denon was nice with drone/synth tapes.

 

[TroyK]

I'm listening to Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil on a good turntable playing through a really decent 2-channel system in my built-to-be-warm sounding basement and it's worth it, if you love music.

 

[longfinger]

I'm listening to Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil on a good turntable playing through a really decent 2-channel system in my built-to-be-warm sounding basement and it's worth it, if you love music.

I'm wondering if you, are anyone else in this thread, still engages in "listening parties". That is getting together with friends, putting on music, and listening to it together.

 

[TroyK]

Yes! Not often, but one of my favorite things to do.

 

[Bruce Calin]

There were people, often musicians but not always, who were great to listen to music with. You could listen on a deeper level, and they wouldn't talk while the "side"(old term for LP!) was playing,but had meaningful comments for discussion after. I learned a lot from "parties" like this.