Where/when do you do most of your music listening for enjoyment?

[Buell]

Every chance I get but my wife only puts up with so much. So, mostly in my car (when alone) or in my studio.

 

[Mjark]

In the car but I have few places to go these days. If my wife is out I'll sometimes put a CD in the old Blue Ray player and blast the sound bar in the living room. It has a setting for music and actually sounds quite good.

I have a traditional stereo in the basement with turntable and CD player but it's about the last place I listen to music. The basement is so full of junk.

 

[Knows3Chords]

I miss the old radio shows with a really great host who would play a good mix of new, classic alternative/new wave, local and global artists. I remember working midnights and having the Liz Copeland show on Detroit's WDET FM to get thru the night. Her show and Laurie Brown's The Signal on Windsor, Ontario's CBC2 radio were very enjoyable. NPR lost me years ago. I miss the old school NPR. I guess I'm one of the people who even though I have a ton of music at my fingertips, likes having someone do the the shuffle selection for me sometimes.

 

[imwjl]

For me it's every morning in the shower, and in the car whenever I'm driving (which I do very little of these days)

I've considered listening through earpods while walking around the city, but I think that'd be potentially hazardous with all the horrible drivers around here - having said that I should start listening at the gym, rather than being subjected to all the "ooon ssss ooon ssss ooon sss"

where and when do you do your music listening for enjoyment? (to differentiate from for learning guitar parts)

Consider the earbuds with "transparency mode". If you are Android the best can likely need an app vs that chip Apple has in phones but the Sony and Bose apps are very good. If you take the plunge I very much suggest something that supports Dolby Atmos.

My inner cheapskate wondered what I was doing with my first purchase. When they died I rushed to get the Beats I know are great with Android. Then I learned my dead Apple ones were covered past original warranty so I ended with both. Music fidelity and staying put or fit are best with Beats. Apple are best for phone calls, hearing aids and keeping out the noise on a plane or in an office.

Friends and family have the top rated Sony and Beats. For all around or overall I'd choose Beats or Apple and gen 2 of APP (AirPods Pro) bring the sound quality up like the Fit Pro.

Now to answer the main question. I love listening to a few robot supplied playlists for the new content and spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) when I do my daily exercise, and when I do chores in the house. If I have to work in the office I put noise cancelling on and mostly instrumental music. Both are really good aids for an ADD dyslexic.

For tinnitus and hearing loss suffers, the noise cancelling can or bud type have been fantastic. They don't fix tinnitus but make listening a pleasure - especially at lower volume. It is as if I have back what was lost.

For the old folks: I use my AirPods Pro in the hearing aid mode. No one stereotypes me as same age as our CFO who wears hearing aids and I get same effect. In hearing aid mode I hear conversations I bet others have no idea of.

 

[Bob Womack]

At work.

Bob

 

[bgmacaw]

While driving, mostly Sirius XM stations since a dropped stream on the phone is difficult to recover from without illegally handling the phone. For long road trips, I usually put a few concerts ripped from YouTube onto a USB stick.

At home, it's usually while I'm working, either streaming something on Amazon Music or YouTube or something from my CD collection. Working at the office, they kind of frown on us doing it although they don't outright forbid it. I think that's because they don't allow customer service reps or factory staff to use their phones while working.

Here's what I'm listening to this afternoon while working...

 

[blowtorch]

Here's what I'm listening to this afternoon while working...

when you get done....

 

[Lou Tencodpees]

Usually on the couch in my music room or living room with my Sennheiser cans on, plugged into my phone. That's because my wife is on non-stop Zoom meetings in the other room.

 

[Mjark]

I was inspired to go downstairs and fire up the turntable. I’m on side two of the Best of Dave Edmunds.

 

[421JAM]

Over the last year or so it's almost entirely in the car. I enjoy choosing six cds and letting them play through, then putting in another six when those are done. I've listened to a lot of rarely played cds recently. Yesterday I listened to Sonny Sharrock's "Black Woman," which I hadn't heard in years. Thoroughly enjoyed hearing that again.

I haven't been motivated to listen to music inside the house in a year or so. It's too bad, because vinyl has been my favorite way to listen to music throughout my life. I just haven't been feeling it lately.

 

[Mjark]

Now I’m on to The Who - Sell Out.

 

[ClashCityTele]

I have radios in the bathroom & kitchen (Classic FM).
In the car it's either Classic FM again or digital music from a USB drive.
Everything from Hendrix to Killing Joke.

 

[dougstrum]

I generally listen when driving or working out in the shop.

 

[Swirling Snow]

I most often listen to music here, at my desk, and whenever the mood strikes, I guess. That means I'm listening to YouTube or Spotify though a MOTU M2 and Kali IN-8s.

No music in the car - I want to hear the sound of the engine and the squeal of the tires.

 

[archetype]

I listen in the book office while I'm cataloguing. A CD player gozinta a Technics receiver and on to EV Sentry 100A studio monitors. Those have a strident midrange that splits my skull open, but I have no way to EQ that.

Current CDs are Johnny A., Aretha Franklin, The Roches, Charlie Parker, John Hiatt, The Rascals, and a surf compilation. Volume needs to be low so it doesn't occupy too much of my brain while I work.

 

[Killing Floor]

Car, but I do not have a commute.
Comfy chair, often.
There’s music playing all day when I’m working. Records or streaming.

 

[Nogoodnamesleft]

At night at home.

 

[Alex_C]

Driving, running, gym and when working on guitars or househlod appliances.

 

[bender66]

Everywhere I can get it in. I cant do a long bike ride, or any really, without my tunes. Gym especially.

I actually use headphones as a deterrent for certain socially idiotic/politically inept dicktards from trying to convince me of a thing.

 

[Skyhook]

For me it's every morning in the shower, and in the car whenever I'm driving (which I do very little of these days)

I've considered listening through earpods while walking around the city, but I think that'd be potentially hazardous with all the horrible drivers around here - having said that I should start listening at the gym, rather than being subjected to all the "ooon ssss ooon ssss ooon sss"

where and when do you do your music listening for enjoyment? (to differentiate from for learning guitar parts)

In the car, mostly.