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[Music] What Is Your Main Source For Listening To Music At Home?
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No option for doesn't listen to music at home, only the car.
- Aug 7, 2003
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I buy my hi-fi from Guildford Audio, although I’m at the “cheap” end of the range of equipment they supply, unlike this;
Youtube. A load of long playlists.
GT49er
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Youtube on laptop. Listen to something I vaguely remember from way back then .......... recognise it, think, 'Oh, that was nice'......and within two minutes will have kicked on to something else!
Attention span of a great crested newt these days!
Attention span of a great crested newt these days!
Did you say something about a fowl?
Boroseagull
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YouTube on TV or smart speaker for me. Still have have my separates set up with Mission speakers etc but I never bother with it. So much easier to tell Alexa what I want.
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
I've got Tidal via laptop to Logitech Squeezeboth connected to my main hifi but..... recently I've been going back to my CDs. When you have "unlimited" choice sometimes it's too much and I wonder what to listen to. I've many compilations (love the Another Late Night/Late Night Tales series plus old Mojo and Uncut mix cds) and these tend me to lead me off in directions. A cd of Springsteen covers (some awful but often of his lesser known album tracks) has led me to a day going through my Springsteen cds. A lot of his stuff I just plain don't like but every album has a lesser known gem (If I Should Fall Behind on Lucky Town, Point Blank or Independence Day on The River etc etc). I'll never give up my cds and I still collect them. They're jsut too tangible. People I know who have Alexa etc just listen to the same old same old tunes, Amazon generates the same playlists etc, would drive me mad (like many radio stations). What I do like about the Squeezebox is using BBC Sounds and playing Guy Garvey, Don Letts, Cerys shows etc when I like rather than on the timetable. Love the BBC and v happy to pay the license fee (f*** you Tories). edit - I also have many compilation cds that are not available on streaming services.
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warmleyseagull
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I don't see gramophone on choices so can't vote.
OzMike
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Everyone in my house listens on speakets with their phones.
Comrade Sam
Comrade Sam
Play a record via 1970s B&O amp and speakers, or iPod through a mini rig speaker.
Bloody marvelous.
Bloody marvelous.
HastingsSeagull
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Had a bunch of proper options in my yoof, but yeh now at 41 I just use my phone or PC innit
aolstudios
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Do you have 7 systems?
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
I stream my music in to my hi-fi separates system. I used to use the Tidal streaming service, but whilst upgrading my amp and streamer recently, the men in the audio shop said that Qobuz was much better. You get a free month's trial, so I gave it a go. I've not looked back. CD quality or hi-rez. £ 129 a year. I've cancelled my Tidal subscription.
At home in the evening, maybe with friends round for dinner, we will play a mix of vinyl and CD on my Hi Fi separate system, but we do have a streamer separate integrated into it as well, so we can stream from Spotify on our phones to the system and it has a DAC to Analogue (its an Onkyo NS-6130). During the day, when I'm wfh, it'll be Youtube or Spotify app on the PC. In the car, Spotify from phone via bluetooth to the car stereo system, or Radio 4 
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Echo shows/dots…..’dotted’ through the house ….with a decent pair of ear plugs for late night use.
Still have some vinyl tucked under the bed….an my old deck, a Rega Planar 2 with a glass platter..havnt plugged it in for years, but I have no intention of disposing of it
Still have some vinyl tucked under the bed….an my old deck, a Rega Planar 2 with a glass platter..havnt plugged it in for years, but I have no intention of disposing of it
I have two main setups, then I have a few others dotted around in other rooms.Do you have 7 systems?
The two main setups one is a Rega Planner 8, Rega MC pre amp, Rega Elicit Amp, and B&W 705 S3
the other Technics SL1200GR, Rega IO amp, and B&W 607 S3
I also have a Audio Technica LP60BT, AT-LP120X, Audio Technica Sound Burger, Project essential 2 and a NAD 5120
Also my daughter has an Audio Technica LP3
Colonel Mustard
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- Jun 18, 2023
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No option for Alexa streaming? We don’t listen to a lot of music these days. Only time is when I’m cooking or when people come round. When we do it’s Alexa generic stuff.
- Apr 13, 2015
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I simply have a WiFi connected Sonos system, three different styles of speakers, 8 in all including a TV sound bar,.. in all rooms other than the bathroom, cloakroom and utility room... I use, Spotify and Amazon mainly.