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2 Questions on General Music Preferences

Which would you prefer:

1) Substandard artistic content music that is masterfully recorded and playing on a state of the art system or incredibly wonderful music played on a Walkman in a bathroom?

And a more interesting one...

2) If your only choice for a long period (say, in the car with your significant other) is 5 hours of truly awful music or NO music, which would you prefer?

To start it off properly, I'll answer. First, if there were no high falutin' audio and all recordings sounded like the worst condition 78 rpm record ever heard, I'd still be a music lover. Second, life is too short to listen to Ricky Martin, Britney Spears or Shaun Cassidy. Five hours of that and I'd be ready for the nuthouse! Quite frankly, if the music is bad, I'd rather have silence for 5 hours than to listen to it for 5 minutes. So the real question from the above is... am I REALLY a music lover????
dmk
kitch29
316 posts
 
I'm an expert on this 'cause when my kids were 3 and 5 we took a 6 hour drive and listened to Anne Murray sing "There's A Dragon In the Driveway" over and over the whole way.
Silence is golden, but Anne Murray beats bickering.
gregm
3,415 posts
 
Kitch's last sentence rules! Otherwise, I would go for the walkman in the first case & silence in the second -- although, as D-K notes, respect for others' musical choices is important.

Cheers!
no_money
638 posts
 
Hey Kitch, I think Sony is going to release that one on SACD. :)
detlof
1,899 posts
 
I am one mind with Greg, walkman in the first, silence in the second case....and I'm afraid, I'd rather bicker than have six hours of the same song.....or rather, after 1 hour of bickering, Spike Jones as comic relief for 10 minutes and then back to bickering.....
Cheers
dmk OP
16 posts
 
Thanks for your responses. You may have no idea of this, but there are quite a few audiophiles who have megabuck systems and mostly diagnostic recordings. Perhaps a few audiophile approved music discs to check their soundstage or something. I've found that I do enjoy music more on a better system but I could live quite happily without one as well.

And Kitch, what I've done to clear up the problem you have is to buy a conversion van with a stereo system that can cut off the front speakers where my wife and I sit. The 3 kiddies can listen to Barney or the Backstreet Boys (hey, paint 'em purple and who'd know the diff?) and we have (nearly) blessed silence. It works! Shoot, I can even play Bill Evans quietly on a boombox in the front seat if I want! My wife is deaf in her left ear so I keep her on the passenger side :)
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