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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2016 at 18:01
Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

I use an iPhone and a pair of headphones.

I'm such a millennial... 


Yeah well I'm a baby boomer and do the same thing. I still buy and collect vinyl but don't play it a lot. If it's something not available on Spotify I'll rip it with Voyetra and add to my iTunes or my private cloud player. I'm not home enough to play much music there, some of my most memorable listening experiences come at airports, hotels or walking around some foreign city. Cranking GY!BE or Opeth on headphones while people-watching in an airport is much more interesting than laying out the vinyl in a stuffy room at home.
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Points: 1802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2016 at 16:39
Luckily for the neighbours I have a football oval ("Australian rules" of course), over the back fence as the only neighbour within earshot. Have not got the system in the pic above 11 O'clock yet but keen to try out 1 O'clock on the vol dial.

Will have to wait till wife not home to do that, mega strife otherwise- will let you know how its goes and if plaster falls from the ceiling.

PS Used to have a homemade Mosfet power amp I made (120w/ channel with dual power suppliers etc), that I put soooo many capacitors in (big caps- as big and many as I could afford at the time), that when I turned it off it would keep playing for 3 minutes before powering down. Was much louder than my current system- had it back in my uni days! The caps alone would make too expensive to make again now
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Points: 1802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2016 at 15:32
The Eddie patented speaker placement method (endorsed by Flo), multiple speakers and amps- as many as you can find as more is always better (eg like stacks of Marshalls at a rock concert)- Step 1.
Then turn every thing on turn volume up, place needle on record (vinyl is best), leave that room very quickly (before record starts playing- go out thru neigbouring room, then outside to a comfy chair- Step 2
Light your pipe (with Tabaco or fix a drink of your preference and listen( feel the music coming thru the doors/ windows etc of mentioned room)- Step 3
Aah Step 4- Make sure you have no neighbours and/ or they are away.

That's my recommended listening setup- works well most weekends...........
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Points: 1802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2016 at 05:48
get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneekers
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Points: 1056 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2016 at 00:59
I use an iPhone and a pair of headphones.

I'm such a millennial... 
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Points: 1505 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 23:40
I just listen to everything off of my computer and my two speakers. Don't want to show a picture because it'd just make me feel worse about how unkempt it is. 
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Points: 1802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2016 at 16:12
Does anyone use speakers anymore or just headphones, I keep my headphones in a box - where they belong(refer to pic)

gotta feel the music as well as hear
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Points: 1802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2016 at 18:04
Come post pics of your Prog Listening room - where you dust all those old records off or play your Flac files or what ever. Note No CD's allowed in this room (PS Have another Cambridge Audio setup with CD ;) )
Mine consists of both of the above plus a Nak tape deck for even crustier old time listening, plus a PA thrown in for good measure. Happy listening - make it loud I say or don't play................



Edited by EddieRUKiddingVarese - August 12 2016 at 18:39
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes"
and I need the knits, the double knits!
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