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Listening to music on the good old hi-fi
Most of my music listening these days is either in the car or on an IPod dock in the kitchen. When the new Ry Cooder CD arrived this week I decided to give it it's first play on my hi fi i.e. good old fashioned cd player/amp/speakers combo which in recent years has been used less and less.
The sound from this CD is absolutely gorgeous and I was reminded how good music can sound from an 'old school' seperates system. I have since played it in the car and on the ipod dock and it's nowhere near as good.
My relationship with the proper hi fi is now officially back on and would urge any of you who have similair kit gathering dust in the corner to give it a go. If like me it's been a while, you'll be amazed at how much more involving the experience is, especially where the album is as well produced (to my ears anyway) as the new Ry Cooder.
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I had that
with the new Radiohead record 'King of Limbs'
Whole new sounds and instruments were suddenly revealed to me - it was a revelation. I was on the brink of writing it off, but the scales fell, wonderfully, from my ... ears
I'm with you
on that. Friday night is usually our stereophonic sounds night, I bought myself a bose 3 series a couple of years back - oh that bass, how low can it go? Lovely, and lots of uncompressed joy.
It's like being a movie fan, but not going to the cinema!
I completely agree! I've got a whole house system, but my pride and joy is my CD player! I recently gave my "old" Denon system to my best mate and he cannot believe how good CD's sound. Everyone should do themselves a favour and listen to their favourites on a good system. Forget the sports car when you have the mid-life crisis, buy a good hi-fi - it'll make you wish you never sold those cd's on ebay for 50p!
Yep
Still use mine, typically at weekends. Arcam and Mission speakers. Listening on the littl iPod dock or through ear buds it always hits me when I put a vinyl album or CD on how big and full the music sounds, rather than squashed and little. Something big and spacy like "Dark side of the moon" sounds amazing...and indeed, I played "Chicken skin music" the other week and that sounded so rich and organic. I'd never get rid of it frankly.
Now, because of you, I want one of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FATMAN-MK1-iPOD-DOCK-REMOTE-/170687740900?pt=U...
That rear view up the sockets is giving me the horn.
I listen when working from home.....
.....which I try to do as often as possible. Upgraded my system earlier this year. Its a tiny room so nothing to heavy. Pro-Ject Debut III turntable (given to me by a friend,) Yamaha AS500 amp and CDS300 cd player, Mordaunt Short Aviano 1XR speakers which are small but sound lovely.
Spend most of my time trying to decide what to play. Last time was yesterday when I span The Velvets Loaded on vinyl and the Traffic debut on cd. Lovely!!
I'm a latecomer to Ry Cooder
I only got into his music when Chavez Ravine came and have bought new releases since then. Plan to buy Chicken Skin Music next after listening on .
I also have an Arcam / Mission combination - spooky!
Vinyl STILL rules!
I caught the hi-fi bug from the old man and although he was never a big earner and had 4 kids to pay for he ran a fairly decent system that was his pride and joy. Nothing too high end but it certainly rocked our little house (well, as far as opera & Max Jaffa could rock)! Anyway, as a result I've always had a reasonably ok separates system too but, like most I guess, mp3/iPod and computer speaker listening took over for a while. I never gave up on vinyl though and a couple of years ago I started buying it again with a vengeance. Which earlier this summer led to me ordering a Michell Orbe SE turntable to replace my 20 year old Syncro deck. Well, it arrived on Tuesday and since then I've been digging out everything from Deep Purple to Bill Evans via Joni, CSN & Sinatra (thanks dad!). It all sounds so much better!