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Poll Results: How many hours a week do you JUST listen?

 
  • 14% (8)
    Less than 2 hrs/ week
  • 31% (18)
    2-5 hrs/ week
  • 26% (15)
    5-10 hrs/ week
  • 28% (16)
    10+ hrs/ week
57 Total Votes  
post #31 of 45
8/25/11 at 8:48pm
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Originally Posted by BobSaysHi View Post




Mine is quite the opposite actually. I get about 10-20 new albums a week and I never listen critically the first time through.

 


Ohh I love taking in a new album focusing totally on it and nothing else.

 

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post #32 of 45
8/25/11 at 8:59pm

Commute about 7.5 hrs/week

I have my ipod dock at work from when I walk in to when I leave, most days

Weekday's evenings at home 1-2 hr(s) or longer , like tonight

Weeekend's  5-10 hours longer when I have weekends free

 

 

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post #33 of 45
8/25/11 at 9:22pm

Is hard to listen and do nothing else, but I usually do it every night on my bed, for about 1 hour until I get too sleepy to keep listening, then just throw the grado's aside and sleep. my alessandro MS1 were my favorite can in bed, until it broke.

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post #34 of 45
8/25/11 at 10:06pm
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Originally Posted by JamesMcProgger View Post

Is hard to listen and do nothing else, but I usually do it every night on my bed, for about 1 hour until I get too sleepy to keep listening, then just throw the grado's aside and sleep. my alessandro MS1 were my favorite can in bed, until it broke.



How did they break?

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post #35 of 45
8/25/11 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by Connnorrr View Post




Ohh I love taking in a new album focusing totally on it and nothing else.

 


I'm with this guy.

 

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post #36 of 45
8/25/11 at 10:43pm
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Originally Posted by bcasey25raptor View Post

How did they break?


 

they were like almost 10 years old, the left driver started rattling. went from almost unnoticeable some months ago to unbearable like 3 weeks ago. Im gonna attempt to fix it and put them in a woodie.

 

what awonderful headphone the MS1 is, right?

 

now I use a cocobolo grado SR60 in bed. which is my only dedicated listening time.

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post #37 of 45
8/25/11 at 10:54pm
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Originally Posted by JamesMcProgger View Post




 

they were like almost 10 years old, the left driver started rattling. went from almost unnoticeable some months ago to unbearable like 3 weeks ago. Im gonna attempt to fix it and put them in a woodie.

 

what awonderful headphone the MS1 is, right?

 

now I use a cocobolo grado SR60 in bed. which is my only dedicated listening time.



Well it was 10 years old so you can't complain.

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post #38 of 45
8/25/11 at 11:38pm
Thread Starter 


Really interesting spread here.  I hope I phrased the poll question correctly when I said 'critical listening'.  I don't necessarily mean listening analytically.  Just how often do you devote your undivided attention to listening?  Listening on public transportation while commuting is pretty borderline since I can see really getting into your music during these time periods.  But the argument could be made that it's not an ideal listening environment in terms of realizing the full potential of your gear. 

 

I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in the 2-5 hour range.  I myself probably listen to background music 3-5 hours a day.  And even though it's just background music I like it to be of relatively high quality.  I'm sure most of us here would probably like to 'just listen' more than we have time to.  A lot of this comes down to priorities and living situations.

 

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Originally Posted by JamesMcProgger View Post

Is hard to listen and do nothing else, but I usually do it every night on my bed, for about 1 hour until I get too sleepy to keep listening...


Ditto!

 

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post #39 of 45
8/26/11 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by JamesMcProgger View Post

Is hard to listen and do nothing else, but I usually do it every night on my bed, for about 1 hour until I get too sleepy to keep listening.


Why are you this much like me??

 

 

WHY!?

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post #40 of 45
8/26/11 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by logwed View Post

Why are you this much like me??

 

WHY!?


we are meant to be for each other WHY CANT YOU SEE THIS!!!!

 

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post #41 of 45
8/26/11 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by Mkubota1 View Post


Really interesting spread here.  I hope I phrased the poll question correctly when I said 'critical listening'.  I don't necessarily mean listening analytically.  Just how often do you devote your undivided attention to listening?  Listening on public transportation while commuting is pretty borderline since I can see really getting into your music during these time periods.  But the argument could be made that it's not an ideal listening environment in terms of realizing the full potential of your gear. 

 

I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in the 2-5 hour range.  I myself probably listen to background music 3-5 hours a day.  And even though it's just background music I like it to be of relatively high quality.  I'm sure most of us here would probably like to 'just listen' more than we have time to.  A lot of this comes down to priorities and living situations.

 

 

To be fair, not all music is meant to be listened to with undivided attention. Ambient is the most obvious example. If an album could requires my undivided attention, I try not to listen to it during the day.


 

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Originally Posted by logwed View Post

Why are you this much like me??

 

WHY!?


Bro, everyone does this. I did this for 6 years, every night. I no longer do it because of the wonders of the internet.

 

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post #42 of 45
8/26/11 at 1:18pm
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Originally Posted by BobSaysHi View Post

 

Bro, everyone does this. I did this for 6 years, every night. I no longer do it because of the wonders of the internet.

 



Progger and I go much deeper than this, brobro.

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post #43 of 45
8/26/11 at 2:09pm
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Originally Posted by logwed View Post




Why are you this much like me??

 

 

WHY!?


I do this too :) 

 

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post #44 of 45
8/26/11 at 2:43pm
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Originally Posted by logwed View Post





Progger and I go much deeper than this, brobro.


yes. we also love Dr Pepper-

 

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post #45 of 45
8/26/11 at 3:02pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by BobSaysHi View Post

 

To be fair, not all music is meant to be listened to with undivided attention. Ambient is the most obvious example. If an album could requires my undivided attention, I try not to listen to it during the day.


Totally with you there.  I tend to listen to "things without words" like classical when I am working.  I get distracted if there are words.  Even better is something I'm not familiar with.  Again, it's less of a distraction as I won't have the tendency to hum along or follow the tune.  On a similar note, when I go cycling I usually listen to podcasts because if I listen to something with a beat it will screw up my cadence. 

 

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Originally Posted by JamesMcProgger View Post

yes. we also love Dr Pepper-

 


Me three!  Prune juice my a--.  biggrin.gif

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