What sources?

Please list the sources you put through your main hifi set-up?

  • turntable

    Votes: 70 59.8%

  • CDs (via a CDP)

    Votes: 93 79.5%

  • hard disk

    Votes: 36 30.8%

  • Internet

    Votes: 15 12.8%

  • radio (FM or DAB)

    Votes: 44 37.6%

  • cassette

    Votes: 11 9.4%

  • other, please specify

    Votes: 26 22.2%
  • Total voters
    117
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Please list the sources you put through your main hifi set-up, and say what you regard as the most important for you.

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i voted hdd and internet - i mostly listen to my ripped cd's via my squeezebox 2 but occasionally stream audio from internet radio stations.
 
I currently CDs are my main use, followed by radio broadcasts and legacy of cassette tapes. I also sometimes use the hifi kit to take the rear effects from AV 5.1 material.

I'd be interested to see how widespread the hard disk and/or Internet us is, and I'm preparing to launch into that.
 
CDs and hard disk here (the latter being mp3s/oggs/FLACs being fed into a modified M-audio superdac via a Terratec DMX6Fire sound card and a chord optical lead...though the squezebox solution is tempting me). Hard disk is more important as it is used more.
 
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Dvd players. Freeview radio and TV ..... Proms and few concerts on digital tv can be wonderful. Hope they show more eventually.
 
TT only - my pre doesn't have a selection input at all, just an 'on' switch and a volume control. Tuner, CD/SACD and everything else I want to listen to goes through the secondary system (A/V). Analogue music is my No. 1 priority.
 
2 cassettes, cd, radio, DAT - at present.

Turntable, reel to reel and 8 track in the past.

Considering Hi rez formats, internet tuner or a satellite tuner.
 
CD, Turntable, Hard Disk (using my PC and iTunes, DVD-V and VCD (through my PC), VHS and FM.

*Edited to add VHS - still use it now and again
 
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I abandoned vinyl in 1989. Couldn't bear the snap, crackle and pop any more.

I abandoned cassettes in 2002. No need for them after getting CD in the car.

I also abandoned radio in 2002. Couldn't stand the annoying advertising any more. Couldn't stand the inane drivel of the BBC DJs (and they're not alone either). Still listen to local radio sometimes in the car.

Currently I listen to CDs in the house but as per the other thread, my CDs have been ripped and a Squeezebox 2 is on its way.

I use the internet to sample music so I can decide what the buy. I have a pair of cheap speakers to connect to the PC for this (2nd hand KEF Q15s as these sound good at close range). I am looking for a decent cheap integrated or power amp (£100).

I am stunned at the commercial stupidity of the music companies who want to stop people sharing music on the net as sharing is traditionally the way we find out what we like. People who hear more music, ultimately buy more music. Yesterday's home tapers are today's hifi enthusiasts with large CD collections. Music industry chiefs must be really dim.
 
I agree with your sentiments regarding opportunites to hear music. Maybe internet radio as a hifi component is a better option [eg US radio stations]. Does anyone make a component radio? These guys used to - then stopped. I wonder why? were they leaned on??

http://www.outlawaudio.com/
 
T/T only though I do connect my phono stage into the CD input just as my little protest. Does that qualify me for a nerd badge ?
 
I've voted vinyl/CD/tuner (FM only)/cassette and other, being TV and film soundtracks plus SACD and DVD Audio discs.
Most important? Has to be vinyl: still the best-sounding of all, unless the radio boys are serving up a really tasty concert...
 
technobear said:
I am stunned at the commercial stupidity of the music companies who want to stop people sharing music on the net as sharing is traditionally the way we find out what we like. People who hear more music, ultimately buy more music. Yesterday's home tapers are today's hifi enthusiasts with large CD collections. Music industry chiefs must be really dim.
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Actually it might become the most brilliant move they have thought of if they could get the courts to agree with their version of the future. One that they have the protection of the law to sale us their precious music that we couldn't keep a copy, but in order to listen to it via some future online portal we pay a small chargeble fee every single time.
 

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