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Anyone listen to entire albums?

I assume the answer is yes since many of you run vinyl rigs, but just wondering how many around here listen to entire albums at a sitting?  In the age of instant gratification and playlists I seem to be, recently, gravitating to listening through entire albums.  I don’t have vinyl and only stream or play from a network drive so it’s easy for me to bounce around from song to song, artist to artist.  Maybe it’s a nostalgia thing but I enjoy hearing a record in it’s entirely the way the artist recorded it.  I’ve flirted with the idea of vinyl for the very reason that it seems to be a format that lends itself to listening through an entire album in one sitting.  I seem to be less inclined to make that move though now that I’ve been doing the album thing via streaming. 

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elliottbnewcombjr
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I was just laughing to myself about this. Went to change tracks yesterday, forgetting it was an LP.

LP’s, usually all the way thru, and I definitely want the original order. I like extra tracks as long as they are added at the end (CD or LP).

Recently I have been playing specific/favorite/revealing LP’s to hear the differences of new/re-discovered speaker positioning/toe-in.

added a virtual system about positioning/toe-in recently

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I realized that forgetting it’s an LP would never happen unless my new to me SACD/CD player didn’t sound so good (Sony xa5400es)

I am re-discovering my SACD/CDs, actually buying used CD’s of artists I re-discover or new artists I learn about. (hadn’t bought a CD in many years until recently).

CD: I skip tracks I know I don’t like, I play specific tracks for friends, specific tracks to enjoy alone, and specific tracks to hear any difference when evaluating a change.

LP’s, if evaluating, I wait for those most revealing tracks.

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I and my friends always prefer LPs to CD’s and always prefer Reel to Reel to LPs. Never a doubt. The preference of LP’s to CDs has narrowed now.

Thinking of Mike Pinder’s recent death, I just bought a sealed LP of one of my all time favorite albums, the Moody Blues, Go Now, their 1st album when they were a piano based blues band, before Justin Hayward’s era.

So, I will be having a CD/LP/Reel to Reel session soon.

Turned out: the sealed LP I bought has a sticker "Crazy Eddie, $3.99" on it, what a memory.

 

 

elliottbnewcombjr
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a few thoughts

1. those albums (vinyl or cd) where the order of the songs is different than the printed order? who made those decisions?

2. cd's. I sometimes use scramble, and found I became focused on songs that I was not fully aware of, strange: I figured out, those were most often the ones that followed the great songs which I was still thinking about.

3. we retired have more time to listen to both sides, or all sides, however I do, like others, play a favorite side: only, or 1st. Playing out of order, not your favorite side first can make you more aware of other tracks like #2 above.

 

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