scootz
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 05:30 PM |
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Best Format for Listening to Music...
So what is it (other than live!)... 
It's Evolution Baby!
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 05:34 PM |
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I have ripped every thing to flack at home for the master copy played with a Sonos system and transcode to ogg if I need a smaller copy on the go.
Having said that years of loud music and cars means I doubt I can tell the differenced any more . http://vortexbox.org/ makes it all very easy and
will even work as an iTunes sever if you are using apple products.
[Edited on 22/11/11 by ceebmoj]
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steve m
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 05:35 PM |
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On my own,
no f*****g interuptions !
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D Beddows
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:10 PM |
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Vinyl for purely nostalgic reasons..........too much sh*te is talked about music reproduction if you ask me if the tune's good who cares
really
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balidey
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:16 PM |
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Minidisc.
I really enjoyed that format.
I'm too young to be a vinyl fan, and I get bored with the arguments from vinyl fans... change the record 
I always fancied a DAT player, for no reason other than to say I have one. But I went for minidisc instead.
I don't have an MP3 player, but occasionally (very occasionally) I will put an MP3 on my phone or PC, but thats about it. if i want an album now
I tend to buy, or atleast try and buy, on CD.
Dutch bears have terrible skin due to their clogged paws
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Agriv8
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:25 PM |
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high bit rate mp3 highest bit rate you can ripped of cd and dumped on nas at home network .
from there to phone listenning to this on phone as i type.
or PC to Amp
or to cd for car get 3 albums per cd
non system / pc dependant
regards agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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iank
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:41 PM |
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flak is lossless compression i.e. 100% CD quality (same as wav), but with all the advantages of mp3's. Files are bigger than mp3 but smaller
than wav.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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britishtrident
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:48 PM |
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SD card.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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blakep82
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:51 PM |
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they all work if you just want to listen
for dance music, in a club, vinyl. got fed up of DJs standing there pressing play on mix they did the night before on a laptop, and getting paid for
having no skill. vinyl sorts the men from the boys 
in the car or at home for me, its CD, got no interest in downloading albums off the internet, I want something i can actually hold in my hand when i
buy something.
if i just want to listen to a tune without having to buy it, youtube is good enough for me...
in short, never mp3 
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 06:53 PM |
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High end gear + vinyl every time.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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deltron63
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 07:28 PM |
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I wonder how many people listen to the " sound of the music " rather than the music it's self ?
I know i did for many years, now i listen on anything.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 07:28 PM |
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I'll go for MP3 because it's good enough for what I do. I have no high-end stuff and it's clear enough through my car..
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scootz
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 07:34 PM |
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I'm certainly not an audiophile, but I want to hear everything that was intended to be heard!
It's Evolution Baby!
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blakep82
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 07:39 PM |
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CD is your best bet then
all the others are compressed, so they lack something. when i was a college, the lecturer did a test with us between CD and minidisc. minidisc is
compressed so that it removes all the stuff you can't hear, but that stuff also affects the stuff you CAN hear, so its never going to be the
same.
this was when MP3 was new really, so we didn't do it with MP3
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JoelP
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 08:29 PM |
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cd for me, though i get tired of having 30 cds falling around the van.
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iank
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 09:01 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
CD is your best bet then
all the others are compressed, so they lack something. when i was a college, the lecturer did a test with us between CD and minidisc. minidisc is
compressed so that it removes all the stuff you can't hear, but that stuff also affects the stuff you CAN hear, so its never going to be the
same.
this was when MP3 was new really, so we didn't do it with MP3
Wav isn't compressed, it's just a computer file with every bit on the CD, problem over mp3's are they are huge.
Flak is compressed but no bits are lost so the files are smaller, but it's still as perfect as the CD.
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nick205
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 09:29 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
On my own,
no f*****g interuptions !
Aint that the damned truth of it
Used to spend hours just me and my hifi; vinyl and CD both have their merits. CDs/LPs are all packed under the stairs along with the hifi
The car is the only place I get to listen on my own any more and unless you're going to spend big money on a decent system it's limited
quality.
Now have all the CDs ripped to WMA loss less format on a NAS and stream to the TV in the lounge and mini hifi in the kitchen. Files converted to
smaller MP3 files for phone listening on the move and piled on a few CDs for the car.
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Simon
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 09:37 PM |
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8 track, though having only listened to one about 30 years ago, posterity may make me think it was better than it actually was
Otherwise MP3 as it cuts out "i" products
ATB
Simon
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r1_pete
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 09:52 PM |
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Early 60s Chantal Meteor jukebox and 45s
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theduck
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 10:05 PM |
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Vinyl for me and I'm only young lol. Analogue gives you something digital can't.
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HowardB
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 10:21 PM |
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cd, hifi in the cellar so it cut's all the extra unwanted rubbish out. Total immersion without stressing the neighbours or the missus.
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again and goes zoom)
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 11:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
On my own,
no f*****g interuptions !
Definitely - although until the kids are a bit older, I can't even set my system up again or it'll get wrecked.
Currently listening to any of my Sansa Clip+ / car radio / Garmin Satnav via car stereo / Ancient Sharp portable stereo.
When I can get set up again, I'll revert to my Arcam Alpha 5+ CD player, Velleman pre-amp, Velleman valve amp and Mission 752 speakers - 7
bloody years it's been in storage and our youngest is only 3 
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happylemon666
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| posted on 22/11/11 at 11:37 PM |
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cd for me. On my hi-end mostly US solid state (Theta & Krell) hi-fi on floating rack (Townsend audio) and Kef Reference speakers (to be replaced
with home design when I get around to it).
But mostly it's as already stated - on my own and uninterrupted, and if you're enjoying what you're listening too, doesn't
really matter that much. I use wma and mp3 on my little player thingy to play through the tape deck in the car!
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morcus
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 03:57 AM |
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I'm a vinyl man for a number of reasons. The sound is better, but that isn't the most important thing by a long way, The best thing about
vinyl is the bits that go with it, the armoured boxes the LP's live in, the pictures and sleave notes that are big enough to see and read
propperly, the hunt for old stuff and the excitment of getting new stuff in the post, the fine tuning of all the dials to make it just right, having
an album on 4 (Or 6 or 8 or...) sides and all that stuff.
For the car, cassette was better but CD is acceptable. I don't like downloading music, I like buying a new record and hearing it on the way home
from town. I personally think CD is too delicate for the car as I've had discs damaged by the machine due to pot holes, and the difficulty of
changing a CD on the move without touching the shiny side (Even as a passenger) means cassette would be my first choice, that and the fun of making
cassettes for the car which isn't quite the same with CD, it took more skill.
'DJs' who can't spin disks should be shot.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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v8kid
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| posted on 23/11/11 at 07:22 AM |
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Don't bother with recorded stuff. Get a life and just go listen live - even middling bands sound great by comparison to recorded stuff and you
also benifit fron the social interaction.
Anyhow who has the time to waste listening to cd's et al when you could be achieving something of your own?
If you must it's the radio for me as the best of a poor compromise
cheers!
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
chainsaw
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