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For Home:Compressed [Stream, Files]: 20%
Uncompressed 16/44.1 [Files, Stream]: 20%
Uncompressed HiRez (24bit, 88.2kHz+): 5%
CD: 5%
SACD: 10%
LP: 40%
Cassette: 0%
Reel-to-Reel: 0%
Satellite: 0%
Radio: 0%What about you?
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Edits: 02/28/15 03/01/15Follow Ups:
nt
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
AIFF files [16/44.1] - 90%
AIFF files [24/48,88.2,96,176.2,192] - 10%
Wow! It really depends... When I do a lot of office work, the results get skewed (lots of streamed stuff and iTunes). As another example, I recently bought a Spin Clean and for quite sometime its nearly all been vinyl.
A few weeks from now it will all be changed; too much of a mood/convenience thing to get a reasonable stat.
who cares as long as you are...
Happy Listening!
DeeCee
10% streaming to Squeezebox Radio
85% CD
5% SACD / DVD-A / other hi-res
I grew up on cassettes / CDs and have no fond memories of LPs to speak of...
I listen to Spotify and Pandora as background music....when I'm reading, paying bills on line, smoking a cigar, etc.....when I want to really listen to music, I mainly listen to LP, and less to CD.
I would guess that the last 30 days looked something like this:
Reel-to-reel tape: 35%
CD/SACD: 35%
Vinyl: 30%
Next month may be mostly vinyl, and some cassette and 78 rpm listening may happen.
I have some digital music files on my computer and on a couple of flash drives but I RARELY ever listen to them. I listen to FM radio every so often in the car (for as long as I can stand it) and occasionally on public radio's local Sunday night folk/bluegrass show right before bed. But mostly I listen to records and CDs on the stereo.
Tom
LP: 50-60%
Cd: 40-50%
Since moving to a new place last year and having the vinyl rig and all my records packed up and stored down in the basement along with my CDs....
Listening at home:
70% - Uncompressed 16/44.1 files ripped from CD collection onto my computer.
20% - Uncompressed 24/96 or better 'hi-res' downloads or files digitized from my LPs onto my computer.
10% - Streaming services including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music on my computer.
Listening in the car:
50% - Lossless compressed ALAC 16/44.1 files on my iPhone direct digital out to my car's DAC and audio system.
50% - Streaming services from the iPhone including Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Music direct digital out to the car's DAC and audio system.
If I'm on a long road trip I'll spend a few hours especially at night cruising the AM broadcast band for distant stations. Amazing what can be heard once you escape all the 'noise' of the city. Or listen to NOAA weather, State Patrol, Air Traffic Control, streamed from the iPhone.
AIFF files ripped from CD's: 40%
CD's / SACD: 40%
Vinyl: 20%
Cd 100 %
Cd
70 % vinyl
30 % cd
10 % super audio 8 track tape
LP: 75%
CD: 15%
Spotify/You-Tube:10%
for home listening
Best guess -
Home:
FM; 50% college jazz station off air (background)
Vinyl; 30% (active listening)
CD; 20% (mainly active listening but some background)
Car:
FM; 85%
CD; 15%, usually only with trips of 45 minutes or more
"You can't know what the "best" is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn't any such thing." HP
Compressed [Stream only]: 10% (don't have any compressed files that I know of)
Lossless and/or high resolution files [downloads, CD rips & vinyl transfers]: 40%
CD: 20%
LP: 20%
Radio: 10%
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Lately ... mostly streaming.
Hard media wise ...
Lp's with some occasional CD's.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
For the last ten or more years I have been about a 99% vinyl listener.That all changed when my ex finally moved out and I no longer needed to live downstairs to be away from her. I now do all of my listening in my home office... which is really more like a den with a computer in it. Its where I keep my tackle collection, all of my angling art, reference books, tools and materials for cleaning/restoring antique reels... and, in the winter its the warmest room in the house, which has been especially comforting this year.
Its not a room conducive to vinyl. But, hey, all the cassettes are recordings of records !
;-)
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Edits: 03/01/15
You want numbers? Sheeesh!
Al I know for sure is the following:
0% new fangled computer file stuff;
0% cassettes;
0% 8 track;
0% 78s;
0% Elcassette;
0% open reel tape;
100% CDs, SACDs and vinyl records.
Does listening to FM count?
What's all this in aid of anyway?
CD/SACD = 100%.
Nt
... Live!
Or, play a musical instrument?
Not that live is always best in all situations but it is supposedly the best reference in some arbitrary conditions.
I listen to digital. I have lots of vinyl but it has been years since I have listened to any of it.
Smile
Sox
I would guess live is 1/4 %.
And I go to a lot of live music by most standards.
.
Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
WAV/AIFF 44.1/16 - 100%
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
Edits: 03/01/15
90% Vinyl. 5% CD. Then the balance between SACD and RTR Tape
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Great topic!
Spotify (lossy compression, data rate of 320kbps): 5%
Lossy compressed files on the Internet (YouTube, etc): 5%
Uncompressed (AIFF, 2-channel) 16/44.1 files (from ripped CD's) using Audirvana for playback: 25%
Actual CD's (they're in the long process of being transferred to computer - see above): 15%
Multichannel SACD: 15%
Other disc-based (DVD-Audio, Blu-ray audio) multichannel Hi-res PCM (24 bit, various sampling rates): 15%
Other computer hard drive multichannel Hi-res PCM (24 bit, various sampling rates) files (from downloads and from rips using DVD-Audio Extractor) using Audirvana for playback: 15%
Internet Radio (BBC3, etc.): 5%
Really just two sources in the broad sense:
Internet radio: 10%
This consists of mostly MP3 streams from 128k to 320k bit rate
Local file streaming: 90%
This is mostly losslessly-compressed FLAC of ripped CDs, roughly 90% of the 90% above.
The rest is losslessly-compressed FLAC of high-res stuff, mostly ripped from DVD-A using DVD-A Explorer, 10% of he 90% above.
I go through periods which are almost exclusively vinyl. Can't say I've ever exclusively listened to digital.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
CD - 20% or so.
Satellite radio - 80% of so.
I've listened to my music collection until I'm basically bored with it.
So I listen to music mostly in the car. The nice thing about sat rad is
that you never know what you're gonna get next. And you can easily
change the channel.
What nobody seems to get is that the format really doesn't matter all that much.
By the time all the primary distortions have their way, most of the music info embedded in the recording that is processed falls below such a raised noise floor, that even the best playbacks systems are only able to audibly reproduce roughly the equivalent of a poorly-engineered MP3 track.
And a higher-rez format is just a tad better than that same poorly-engineered MP3 track.
Nt
Uncompressed ripped CDs in AIFF 65%
HiRez ALAC, AIFF and WAV 15%
SACD 5%
Compressed downloads from Itunes store 5%
BluRay and DVD Music Video 5%
YouTube 5%
Edits: 02/28/15
Excluding CD play in the car,
CD - 25%
SACD/DVD-A/BRD-A, 25%
LP-35%
ATT U-Verse Stingray Music App videos, 15%
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"Have you a water buffalo?"
At home:
FLAC ripped from CD: 90%
LP: 10%
In Car:
CD: 90%
FLAC ripped from CD (via Pono player): 5%
FM radio: 5%
In office:
FLAC ripped from CD (via Pono player): 90%
Youtube: 10%
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
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Streaming FLAC (Deezer Elite) 80%
Stored FLAC (15%)
Stored DSD (2.5%)
SACD (2.5%)
LP 60%
CD 10%
Hi-Res 24/96 to DSD 30%
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
90% vinyl.
10% CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, DAD's (all that shiny disc stuff).
50% Classic Rock
20% Blues
20% Classic Jazz (I mean back when jazz was sweet)
10% Classical
See ya. Dave
Lossless FLAC Streaming (TIDAL or QOBUZ) 60%
CD 10%
Spotify/SONUS in the kitchen 10%
Vinyl 20%
Is that 100%?
8 Track Tape always, and with incense about 50% of the time.
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"If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future."
CDs - 40%
(on my big rig in dedicated listening room)
Ipod - Lossless ripped from CDs- 30%
(in family room, gym, airplane or car trips)
Comcast Blues channel streamed - 20%
(while reading)
Car radio - 10%
For Home:
Compressed [Stream, Files]: 15% (All YouTube or online video)
Uncompressed 16/44.1 [Files, Stream]: 0%
CD: 60%
SACD: 0%
LP: 20%
Cassette: 2%
Reel-to-Reel: 0%
Satellite: 0%
FM/HD Radio: 3%
Hard drive thru a Mac Mini into Audirvana Plus controlled by Spashtop on an Ipad Air.
70%
Folk UK streaming radio
10%
SACD 5%
Vinyl
15%
CD
None as they are all ripped to the HD before I listen to them.
A guess:
vinyl - 80% (near 100% when I'm at home - an occasional CD)
CD - 10% (in the car)
MP3 - 10% (on my iPhone and only when traveling)
rlindsa
Spotify:24%
Pandora:10%
Vinyl: 60%
Lossless streaming of archived CDs:1%
Radio:5%
90% physical formats
10% radio and digital.
I listen to a lot of music so thats all hours of stuff each month.
Very little hi-res, that's interesting.
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