Survey-What is your most used source?

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

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

AM table radio, talk show, oldies stations.

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.

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

CD: 98% LP: 2%

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

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!

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.

CD 90% Digital Cable TV Music channels 10%

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 ,,,

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

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

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

Oz

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.

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!

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

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

Cd player, followed closely by a cassette player.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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...

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 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)

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

Turntable, 80% CD 20%,

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

my nat 01 naim tuner.super radio in chicago.

SACD at this time.

Turntable 95% of the my time, wife uses tuner 100% of the time. I am thinking of selling the scd-1 for a better cartridge, thats how bad the analog bug has bit me.

Turntable. I have about 2000 vinyl records and only 500 CD's.

CD player ~99%
Cassette deck, FM tuner, and old Bang & Olufsen turntable ~1%

Since I offed the CD player, TT 100%. No CD, no FM, no Tape. Strictly vinyl. Couldn't be happier.

CD's about 95%. Occasionally use tuner - we have a great PBS jazz/blues station, KPLU. I like exposure to new music on other stations, but can't take the commercials. Still, mostly listen to CD's.

Compact Disc Player (which is a Pioneer Elite DV-37) -- 75%.
FM Tuner (which is a Magnum Dynalab FT-101) -- 25%.

And I am putting together an analog/vinyl playback system right now. When I finally get me a phono stage in about a month-and-a-half or so, then that's going to get some significant use as well. I see that being about 50% at the very least. Which after that, CD will drop significantly (to about 25% to 30%), and the tuner will remain the same (approximately 25% to 30% as well).

In my home theater, the TV itself is used 70% of the time, and then after that, my DVD Player is used the other 30%.

And finally in my car (in which I have a stock Honda AM/FM Stereo/CD Player front-end, but is combined with three Precision Fidelity Power Amplifiers (one is bridged for a subwoofer), as well as an upgraded aftermarket Speaker System/Subwoofer setup)), I listen to CD 85% of the time, and to FM Stereo the other 15%.

--Charles--

CD 100% of the time. It's my only source.

well,my most used source has change again!
I bought a MINT Mcintosh MR-74 tuner and can't listen to it enough!
I sold my Rega P-25 and Grado Platinum.The LP's are in storage.I decided to dump the analog front end while I could still get a decent price.I bought both new and sold for $50 less than I paid.A good deal if you ask me.
now I want to build an analog front end again but Im raising the bar a bit and going used.Maybe a Sota Sapphire/rega rb-250 highly modified.still undecided about a new cartridge.

I used to mostly listen to my old Dynalab tuner. Recently I upgraded to their best offerng & I still mostly listen to my tuner!

CDP-85%,TUNER 5%,TV 5%,DVD5%

CDP-64%,tuner-30%,TV-06%.more or less an accurate representation for me. many find it 'odd' that someone my age (24) can 'only' watch about 2 hours of TV, a week. I tell you, it's pretty easy when you don't have cableTV, nor sat. It's not like there's really anything on. And besides, I only have a 13inch TV (looks kind of sad next to my stereo, actually!)

I don't have a vinyl source, so that counts me out for that. Though I might like to try that someday, especially if we get slapped with more 'playback-restricted' CD titles.

Oh, and the 'tuner' numbers are a little inflated as I'm ALSO counting the time I use the radio in my car. Though I do listen to some college radio while at home. I usually catch the late night heavy metal shows. That allows me to expose myself to hopefully music I have not heard yet. (I'm big into heavy metal and classical).

So without counting the car, it's: CDP-80%,tuner-12%,TV-08%.

Wife, 15 yr old daughter, TV (gotta be honest),62 year old Steinway B, tuner, then by beloved CDP. Sometimes I wish the order would flip...!

Turntable 90% of the time; tuner and CD for balance.

(1) autoharp;

(2) hurdy-gurdy;

(3) player piano.

-cfb

Tuner first, CD/SACD second. Just getting my turntable set up. Since I got my MR71 overhauled I am spending alot of time with the headphones and the all night jazz station in the wee hours.

CD first
SACD second
Vinyl third