Survey-What is your most used source?

Mcintosh MR 71 Modaferri Mod tuner 50% cd 30% 20% vinyl
Tuners is good in New York!

Turntable, 80% CD 20%,

XM Satellite Radio via a "SkyFi" tuner, using SilveryFirst sterling silver interconnects.

It is digital and sounds quite good (especially with tubes) but not quite to CD. But the programming is beyond belief.

Favorite stations (out of the 101 offered):

Luna 75 (Latin Jazz)

Café 45 (Sophisticated, funky eclectic rock, alt, acoustic stuff)

Frank's Place 73 (Great American Songbook - Frank, Ella, Billie H., Mel Tormé, etc.)

VOX 112 (vocal classical - all forms - chorale, opera, etc.)

Best of all, when I head to work, I pop off the bar-of-soap-sized tuner and pop it in the car. When I get to work, I pop it into the "boombox" cradle on my desk and pop on the headphones.

Life is good!

GnD

What do I listen to most-in the order of preference:
1.LP (highly modded Goldmund Reference/Clearaudio Insider or highly modded Souther/Helicon.)
2.Analog prerecorded tape (Otari,Studer)
3.Tuner (Rhode&Schwarz all tube stereo relay reciever, 1960 vintage)
4.Redbook CD (ML.30.5, Purcel, ML 31.6)
5.SACD (Sony SCD777es, modded by Audience)
Out of competition: My significant other (unmodified)

Just one,,, C-band satellite is my source for 60+ digital music channels. It doesn`t get any better than that! Regards, Robin

What do I listen to (as opposed to my fav source which is TT)? Following the latest developments (baby, as per my thread) the order is now:
*Significant other, lately modified into a dual role (SO + mother)
*redbook (for convenience)
*baby
*TT
*tuner

At least, this new order should help the cartridge last longer...

In this hobby THE BANK!!!!!!! David

Definately CD & SACD as it's my ONLY source!

The most used source is my Turntable. Way behind it is redbook CD and a little behind that is SACD. SACD is lots better than redbook I just don't have that much material.

If I can get it on vinyl I would never buy it on plastic! LPs just sound better!

Marantz SA-14 CD/SACD player. I do not have a turntable.

CD through my DVD-A player.
My CD player/recorder works great but kinda shows its limites sound wise. Need a new player

Cd, but only because my current phono stage sucks. This will soon be rectified however. I'm also enjoying a vintage Fisher tuner since I've moved to San Francisco. It helps having FM thats actually worth listening to.

Turntable: 95% of the time
redbook CD player: 5% of the time
No tuner, no cassette!! No complaints!

SimAudio Moon Nova. Recently wanted to try some not too expensive SACD... Nova sounds better, SACD went back. Sometime I'll try my PC as a source, with U24 probably...

Cd player, followed closely by a cassette player.

TT, almost 99%. Hate them little silver things!

100% redbook CDs. I recently sold my SOTA Sapphire after not listening to it for four years. A good CD player helps, of course...

vinyl 60%,CDP 35%,laserdisc 10%,DVD 5%-Yup got a table now. Sold the TV. Got a laserdisc player and front projection. Holy cow this rocks!

Easily my sacd/dvd-audio player. Probably 90% of the time spent listening to hi-res music. Compact disc is second, followed by vinyl and dish music.

Aroc............110%????

Does not compute, does not compute, does not.......does.....not.........compute.........

Oz

Sorry, 55/30/10/5. that's more like it.

nice thread! it depends on my mood or what else im doing.sometimes ill start out with tuner(WMNF)great station check it out online)while i pick out a CD,while CD is playing ill pick an album out,and then repeat the cycle,usually late at nite i listen to albums,during the day its usually my CDs or tuner i listen to.my tv is on but the sound is off,im having a hard time justifing the money i spent on HT ,,,

CD 90% Digital Cable TV Music channels 10%

heresy, perhaps, but I have my high def Motorola DVR, (set to matrixed with no compression), all tweaked out and the digital music channels sound pretty good, that is, to be left on all day for background music. Does this make it my most used source? Next is SACD and DVD-A, and the dvd player for MOVIES.

i hate to say it, but my third gen ipod gets the most play. walking to and from work, in the gym on old busted headphones, or in my office on old busted computer speakers. well its better than nothing and keeps the music playing!

CD: 98% LP: 2%

CD has certainly come a long way. I would be interested more in SACD if there were more titles.

Full blown Lp12 Linn Sondek... Since 1983, it sounds great!

Interesting,not many post for analog.I ustiliize my VPI MK3 with Morch Arm and Grado Reference Cartridge about 99% of the time and wipes out I think any CD player I ever heard regardless of price,But I haven't heard all of the high end
CD players in Audioland.Maybe something is still out in the cosmos ready to suck me into digital.
The other 1% I listen to is my analog tuner modified Marantz 120 by Joseph Chow.

AM table radio, talk show, oldies stations.

At 5-22-03, it was C-Band satellite but today, it's the internet. With my HTPC, I have literally thousands of channels with just MSN Music and Winamp. When adding in the downloading capibility and the increasing audio quality available, it's really the only way to go.

Regards, Robin

Dat Deck I record my CD's and listen to them on DAT tape.

Kora Hermes 24/192 Dac, I also have a Magnum D. 102 tuner but the Kora just slays the tuner as good as it is, its also commercial free!Very synergistic with my amplification and speakers -dynamics,stage depth, width,height and steller seperation.Really one of my best purchases to date.T.W.

timothy, check out the fmtunerinfo.com site for a slew of tunas <$500 that will slay the md-102. ;~)

doug s.

Home:

SACDs/DVD-A - 50%
media server with tons of music (mostly mp3/wav) - 20%
Rhapsody via coax and VGA to my main system - 10%
Vinyl - 10%
CD - 5%
XM radio via Directv - 5%

Car:
XM Radio - 50%
Music Keg/Phatbox (mp3/flac player) - 30%
Treo 650 or Creative Zen with Rhapsody to go music- 10%
CDs - 10%

Work:
XM radio - 70%
local AM - 20%
mp3 players (treo/creative/iPod) - 10%

Instead of a tuner, I have Music Choice through my TV cable company. It's great, and sounds great, but of course not as great as a CD player. But I can play DJ so easily, going from genre to genre, commercial free.

My TASCAM or SONY DAT Deck. I record most of my favorite cuts to DAT tape.
Never understood why more people don't.

Vinyl 95+%, 5% - CD borrowed from libraries and friends

1st-LP12/Vinyl
2nd-MCD205/CD changer
3rd- Ipod

Lately it's been my fm/am tuner.

My source of income :)

Turntable 60%; tuner 30%; video 9%; cd 1%...

I mostly use tt about 90% of the time and cd the rest. No tuner.

It used to be 100% CD. Since late 2005, 90%TT,9.9% CD, 0.1% TUNER

Home 95% digital CATV, 5% CD's. At work we have an old tascam 1/4 RR 50% and AM the other 50%. (hard to get any good FM in Barstow,CA}

90% turntable, 5% CD, 5% Ipod on the move.

A number of months ago I started using some tube MA-1's I haven;t fired up in years and connected my variable out phono pre directly balanced, so I had Only 1 source- Vinyl. Cut to several months later, I get a pre amp and can now listen to digital as well Via USB laptop/itunes, which is very convenient. Played digital a few times, but now I find I am gravitating back to LP almost exclusivley, even with good digital playback available.

50% Vinyl, 10% CD's & 40% HT

It has been 5 years since I last posted. I would say now that my Dish receiver is used most, I play satellite radio a lot.

It's about 80% CD, and the remaining a mix between my computer and radio.