What do you listen to your music on?

Amps:
McIntosh Mc30 monoblocks with 1950’s grey glass GEC KT66 output tubes. Mullard 10M 7025, Mullard 10M 12AU7, RCA 12BH7 and 5U4.

Preamp:
McIntosh C-22 with Mullard 10M 12ax7 tubes

Klipsch La Scala Speakers.

Technics 1210 M5G with Ortofon Black

KLAUDIO ultrasonic vinyl cleaner

Sony SACD 9000ES ( Modwright tube line stage and power.)

Oppo 83 SE

Purist cables(power, speaker and interconnects)

Stillpoints



But for real fidelity, my “Rockers” by Fisher-Price is my go to👍




One song only is the bummer part but what a song!😁

I will be at Ohm rooms we are showing. Dolby atmos home theater and a classic two channel system ...

You have some mad skills making the mundane methods absolutely cool!

Rock on with your mad self! 👍

Touché!
I have flown economy plenty (still do) and the irritation of the person beside bumping me constantly as well as the one behind pushing into the seat back drives me even more mental! 😁 I am also constantly afraid of 'wearing' my meal (or the meal of the poor shlub stuck next to me). Slop in a paper bowl isn't so stable during turbulence... 😲

I still have a cassette player somewhere in the basement - it was one of those designed to copy from one cassette to another at high speed, and I bought it primarily because at the time my wife was teaching aerobics classes (step classes in particular) and they all wanted these tapes specifically made for these classes that had a continuous beat through all the songs...

But before that I had an old Akai deck that was an auto direction change machine - you could record right to the end of the tape and keep recording and the deck would switch directions in 1/4 of a second. I think I bought that in 1980 maybe? Along with an Akai integrated amp, and a pair of PSB Passive II speakers - the only part of this system I still have are those speakers. I don't use them now but I had them in the basement for a while. Used a sealed cabinet and the largest driver was a "passive radiator" that was driven by the air in the cabinet. huge bass response for the time, but I would likely consider it a bit boomy these days. A few years ago when I wanted to hook up something to listen to while working on projects in the basement I found that the surrounds on those passive radiators had fallen apart - foam had just disintegrated. I found an email for PSB and asked if they still had parts, and they had 2 left! Gave them my credit card number and had them in my hands a few days later - worked well for background music.

I still have tons of tapes I made back in the day, and if anyone ever was stumped for an Xmas gift idea for me, blank tapes were the go to choice - I probably have a thousand recorded tapes.

I think one reason that more traditional physical formats are making a comeback is not for audio quality, but because many younger people have never owned their music in physical form. It's sort of the same as wearing a vintage watch in a way...

Cheers, Al

Edit - found an old pic of the PSB's before the repair...