How do you listen to music?

[Asenath83]

Since we already have an "What are you listening to?" thread I thought it would be interesting to hear HOW everyone "consumes" their aural food.

My equipment:

Denon DRA-545 RD Stereo AM/FM tuner - an oldie I got for GBP15 on Ebay because it had no remote.
It's a bit ridiculous but due to lack of space for big speakers I currently have a pair of Denon SC-M2 bookshelf speakers attached to the tuner.
Also attached to it are a small PC which also acts as a DVD player and my Squeezebox Classic.
The Squeezebox in turn pulls its music from my little server, a Sheeva Plug running Debian Linux with a 1TB Western Digital Elements USB hard drive attached to it.

When I am in my room I normally run MediaMonkey on my laptop, which has a set of Logitech X-240 2.1 speakers attached to it because the in-built speakers really suck.
I am toying with getting a Squeezebox Boom for my room.

And finally for when I am out and about I have an 8GB Sandisk Sansa View, soon to be "downgraded" to a Sansa Clip+ because the View can't play FLAC and nowadays most of my music library is in FLAC.
I use a pair of LMX-E630 in-ear headphones from Cresyn with that one.

[duke knooby]

i use me ears

[Evil One]

Me too

[CarylB]

Since we already have an "What are you listening to?" thread I thought it would be interesting to hear HOW everyone "consumes" their aural food.



Not as technically inclined or informed, I have a music centre in the living room and another in the dining room where my computer lives. Couldn't even give you any data .. each has a pair of reasonable speakers. In the car it's a cassette player, which I prefer to a CD player as to me it's easier and safer to use when driving.

Caryl

[MissAsh]

Most of the time I tend to use my Creative Zen 16gb mp3 player (+16gb SD card) with Sennheiser CX500 or CX300 earphones, depending on which pair I have with me at the time. If I'm on my laptop then I'll most likely be using Winamp and my laptop's inbuilt speakers (which aren't great but not terrible either, fine for music while I'm online) or the previously mentioned earphones.

[AndrewG]

I use Spotify most of the times now. I have a paid for account so cuts out all the ads. At work I use Sony headphones and at home either the Tannoy monitor speaker system I have for my music recording or Beyerdynamic DT 770 headphones. The latter pair I've had for almost 10 years now I think, but they still seem very good value pro headphones.
In the car I have a BOSE speaker system with 6 cd changer, which is quite good but a bit dated and I'd rather have a mp3 connection now I guess.

[JennaG]

It depends where I am.

If I'm at home then it'll either be on the desktop computer or the stereo in my bedroom. If I'm out then it'll be on my iPod Nano.

[allrevvedup]

My Creative Zen Vision:W, it's been dubbed as "the brick" by a few people who know me, but it stores just about everything in terms of songs i listen, songs i work on and movies on the odd occasion

[Skeleton]

I'm oldfashioned.. I still have my Walkman.. :oops:

But I also have creative musicplayer 1gb.. I don't need bigger capasity to carry Meat's music with me.. :lol: There's also Poets of the Fall in my player.

[GDW]

1916 HMV Gramophone. Deluxe

[MeatGrl1]

I don't have a Hi-Fi I just use my multi talented DVD player to play CD's and films :lol: !!

[duke knooby]

lp/cd.. sony lx56 turntable/denon 425 cd player
stereo amp.. sony ta f200
speakers.. sony ss a701/mission dm7 (usually both)
ixos cables

or else
pioneer 565 dvd player
yamaha dsp ax 620 surround amp
panasonic xr 1000 series surround speakers and sub
ixos cabled

or else
on laptop.. yamaha 2.1 system
(with an onkyo wireless link to the yamaha amp)
worst case scenario.. the altec lansing speakers it comes with

in car.. what ever it has at the time lol
(i did love minidiscs and might stick the sony head unit in one of them)