[Music] What Is Your Main Source For Listening To Music At Home?

[Is it PotG?]

About time they caught up

 

[Albion my Albion]

No option for doesn't listen to music at home, only the car.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I buy my hi-fi from Guildford Audio, although I’m at the “cheap” end of the range of equipment they supply, unlike this;

 

[Weststander]

Youtube. A load of long playlists.

 

[GT49er]

Youtube on laptop. Listen to something I vaguely remember from way back then .......... recognise it, think, 'Oh, that was nice'......and within two minutes will have kicked on to something else!

Attention span of a great crested newt these days!

 

[Albion my Albion]

Youtube on laptop. Listen to something I vaguely remember from way back then .......... recognise it, think, 'Oh, that was nice'......and within two minutes will have kicked on to something else!

Attention span of a great crested newt these days!

Did you say something about a fowl?

 

[Boroseagull]

YouTube on TV or smart speaker for me. Still have have my separates set up with Mission speakers etc but I never bother with it. So much easier to tell Alexa what I want.

 

[herecomesaregular]

I've got Tidal via laptop to Logitech Squeezeboth connected to my main hifi but..... recently I've been going back to my CDs. When you have "unlimited" choice sometimes it's too much and I wonder what to listen to. I've many compilations (love the Another Late Night/Late Night Tales series plus old Mojo and Uncut mix cds) and these tend me to lead me off in directions. A cd of Springsteen covers (some awful but often of his lesser known album tracks) has led me to a day going through my Springsteen cds. A lot of his stuff I just plain don't like but every album has a lesser known gem (If I Should Fall Behind on Lucky Town, Point Blank or Independence Day on The River etc etc). I'll never give up my cds and I still collect them. They're jsut too tangible. People I know who have Alexa etc just listen to the same old same old tunes, Amazon generates the same playlists etc, would drive me mad (like many radio stations). What I do like about the Squeezebox is using BBC Sounds and playing Guy Garvey, Don Letts, Cerys shows etc when I like rather than on the timetable. Love the BBC and v happy to pay the license fee (f*** you Tories). edit - I also have many compilation cds that are not available on streaming services.

 

[ozzygull]

I own 7 turntables so when I want to ”listen“ to music I put a record on. If I am working or need background noise it would normally be the Radio or Tidle streamed to Bluetooth speakers.

 

[warmleyseagull]

I don't see gramophone on choices so can't vote.

 

[OzMike]

Everyone in my house listens on speakets with their phones.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Play a record via 1970s B&O amp and speakers, or iPod through a mini rig speaker.
Bloody marvelous.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Had a bunch of proper options in my yoof, but yeh now at 41 I just use my phone or PC innit

 

[aolstudios]

I own 7 turntables so when I want to ”listen“ to music I put a record on. If I am working or need background noise it would normally be the Radio or Tidle streamed to Bluetooth speakers.

Do you have 7 systems?

 

[Jack Straw]

I stream my music in to my hi-fi separates system. I used to use the Tidal streaming service, but whilst upgrading my amp and streamer recently, the men in the audio shop said that Qobuz was much better. You get a free month's trial, so I gave it a go. I've not looked back. CD quality or hi-rez. £ 129 a year. I've cancelled my Tidal subscription.

 

[Igzilla]

At home in the evening, maybe with friends round for dinner, we will play a mix of vinyl and CD on my Hi Fi separate system, but we do have a streamer separate integrated into it as well, so we can stream from Spotify on our phones to the system and it has a DAC to Analogue (its an Onkyo NS-6130). During the day, when I'm wfh, it'll be Youtube or Spotify app on the PC. In the car, Spotify from phone via bluetooth to the car stereo system, or Radio 4

 

[LamieRobertson]

Echo shows/dots…..’dotted’ through the house ….with a decent pair of ear plugs for late night use.

Still have some vinyl tucked under the bed….an my old deck, a Rega Planar 2 with a glass platter..havnt plugged it in for years, but I have no intention of disposing of it

 

[ozzygull]

Do you have 7 systems?

I have two main setups, then I have a few others dotted around in other rooms.

The two main setups one is a Rega Planner 8, Rega MC pre amp, Rega Elicit Amp, and B&W 705 S3
the other Technics SL1200GR, Rega IO amp, and B&W 607 S3

I also have a Audio Technica LP60BT, AT-LP120X, Audio Technica Sound Burger, Project essential 2 and a NAD 5120

Also my daughter has an Audio Technica LP3

 

[Colonel Mustard]

No option for Alexa streaming? We don’t listen to a lot of music these days. Only time is when I’m cooking or when people come round. When we do it’s Alexa generic stuff.

 

[heathgate]

I'm wondering if listening to music at home on the Hi-Fi has, or is becoming, a thing of the past?

Many of us of a certain age would have grown up with the all in one 'Music Centre'. Then probably progressed onto Hi-Fi separates when we moved out of home. Vinyl on the turntable. Cassettes on the tape deck. Then CD's in the CD player, and either a separate tuner or radio via an integrated amp.

We're told vinyl sales are still increasing, so surely more and more people must own and use a turntable. It was cassette week recently too, and sales of cassettes are said to be on the rise.

Has streaming really moved people away from physical formats and therefore 'Hi-Fi', or are more people buying streaming amps and having the best of all world's? Or do the majority of streamers only stream and use a phone/computer or tv, primarily connected to wireless speakers or headphones?

I ask because it occurred to me that a lot of people I know don't have a Hi Fii at home any more. Or in the case of youngsters, never had one in the first place.

Poll to follow, If I can work out how to do one.

I simply have a WiFi connected Sonos system, three different styles of speakers, 8 in all including a TV sound bar,.. in all rooms other than the bathroom, cloakroom and utility room... I use, Spotify and Amazon mainly.