Gotta say it sounded great

[dontmindme]

Hadn’t been listening to much music over the last few months,
Maybe not at all... to much going on. Last night after dinner I put Diana Krall in my Onkyo CD player connected to my KR -6600 and sent it to the Klipschorns. Wow, that sounded nice. Moved on to Rod Stewart then Roberta Flack. Just really enjoyed the experience. No worry about speaker placement, sound stage, imaging, power or quality. Just enjoyed the time. Maybe I need breaks more often......

Anyway, that’s all.

 

[savatage1973]

I listen to music pretty much every day of the week, but I'm not really "listening"--I'm working on the computer, on the phone, making dinner--all that good stuff--so I "half-listen" to one of my secondary systems. It is a rare treat to go upstairs to my mains system which is in its own dedicated listening space and just spend a few hours of "quiet time" doing some "serious listening" without any other distractions--truly relaxing and enjoyable experience.

 

[dontmindme]

I listen to music pretty much every day of the week, but I'm not really "listening"--I'm working on the computer, on the phone, making dinner--all that good stuff--so I "half-listen" to one of my secondary systems. It is a rare treat to go upstairs to my mains system which is in its own dedicated listening space and just spend a few hours of "quiet time" doing some "serious listening" without any other distractions--truly relaxing and enjoyable experience.

Same here, music on a lot. Been working on a vintage system in a 1981 CJ7. Putting rear speakers in today. Some old Pioneer TS-X8’s hooked up to an old Pioneer KP-5500 Supertuner cassette.... found them at various places and refurbished them. They sound great, and look great in the Jeep.

I just don’t make the time to listen to the nice stuff, I guess I did last night and enjoyed it. It did help though having pumpkin cake a milk handy, after a little red wine at dinner......

 

[Bodyblue]

I sat down and listened to Seal's "Standards" album that just came out. I was fully expecting not to be impressed but I played it a second time and now today for the third time and I really dig it.

 

[OMGCat!]

I try not to do much background listening so I can enjoy when I sit down and really listen. The trouble is actually getting myself the time to sit and be still for a while.
Once I do I'm always happy I made the time.

 

[goodolpg]

I've found after a few days or a week or two, if I sit down to seriously listen my stereo often sounds really good.
Maybe because I haven't heard it in a while, maybe I've gotten used to the sound of the car radio which I do have on almost every day driving to and from work.

 

[justjed2]

I have Fridays off, but my wife doesn't. So, while she's at work, I listen to my stereo. When she's home I use headphones, but it's not the same. None of my gear is high end, but it all works well together. And, some days, it just really does sound great.

I'm inclined to believe that mood has a lot to do with it.

 

[bigaltx24]

I moved into my current house a little over a year and a half ago. It was the first time in eight years I had a dedicated music room for my main system. For the first four to five months I usually only listened to my main system for an hour or two a week. Then one day I just said to hell with all the other crap I have to do, I spent a lot of time and effort putting this system together, I'm going to enjoy it. So I started a routine. After dinner I go into music room and turn on the amp to let the tubes warm up, finish up whatever I was doing for about thirty minutes or so, then go sit down for some serious listening for an hour or so. There's usually a night or maybe two I miss in a week, but I'm getting a lot of time enjoying my system.

 

[twiiii]

Now that its just me and the cats after 38 wonderful years, I'm listening to a lot more music, watching much less TV, and enjoying all sources of music from analog to digital, be they direct to disc Lp's, mono Lps, dubbs of 2 trk tapes I made long ago, CD's, or anything else digital. Great digital is easy on the ears, while analog recordings can need a pass most of the time for their compromises and limitations. Some movie sound tracks were way ahead of the time in capturing great performances. DVD sound tracks can range from fantastic to absolutely superb on one extreme. A bad recording knows no limits, be they analog or digital, they are still just bad. Now that my ears aren't exposed to continual bad TV sound, they are beginning to comeback to the realization that great sound can be around us more often and is there fore more enjoyable. But bad compromised recordings just have to go. Time is to short and space on a shelf, disc or thumb drive to valuable. Take care of your valued music sources and equipment, some day you'll find you can't afford or physically be able to replace it. By the best you can afford, it will pay you back many times over in hours of enjoyment.

Some times I dream about having my 300-4 and 300-2 Ampexs back and all the tapes I made. The Ag 440C and Ag-500 made better recordings using DBX noise reduction, but those Ampex tapes from the tubed 300's were special. I do have some CD dubs, but its just not the same. I gave away my first LP collections as I was very unhappy with the over all sound quality I got from Ortofon, Stanton and Shure cartridges. Now that I have discovered Dynavector and have an even larger collection, I kind of wish I had some of the first collection back. Oh I kept my Sheffields, Commands, a few Mercury, Tellarc's and Original Masters, but I let some of the London, Decca, RCA, Columbia, Deutche, Verve, Reprise and other labels get away from me. I shouldn't have. I keep looking, but I'll never find some of them. Sometimes you have to loose what you had before you know its worth. Digital streaming releases are not the answer either. I have yet to hear a remastered LP off the internet that matches the original I chose to keep.