Survey-What is your most used source?


Just curious, what is your most used source: CD, tuner, cassette, LP, dish...?

I purchased a tuner about six months ago, I hadn't used one in my system in well over 10 years. It is easily now my most used source.

Model: Fanfare FT-1A
brianmgrarcom
i'm listening to cd a bit more, now that i have my modded art di/o...

doug s.
My ratio has changed a bit since I was given a very nice sounding tuner by an audio nerd type dude.:) Its a Adcom GFT 1A.
I also finally bought a decent CDP.The original Rega Planet.
So now its approx.50% vinyl,30% FM, 20% CD
It was 90% vinyl, 10% CD
It's been 11 months since this thread was introduced, times and styles change with time, who has changed?

I have made A LOT of changes over the past year and I do play more CD's now that a year ago, BUT, I still use the tuner the most, although I am now using a Yamaha T-2 tuner.
Brian, I'm with you: It's the TUNA. Just traded my FT-1A for Magnum Dynalabs MD 108. Can't get enough. The CONSTANT introduction of new music into my home is worth twice the price.
Strictly CD here. Analog beckons, but after having had three vinyl collections stolen over the years I decided to not go through that grief again. Funny that losing my CDs wouldn't be nearly as traumatic!
hey, musikdok, w/that melos preamp ya got now, i tink yule be quite surprised-n-pleased how decent a cheep cd-player will sound now - my $500 (retail) nad cd-changer gives up nuttin' to cd-players up to $3k retail (at least), when run thru my melos music-director pre. not that $3k cd-players are anything to write home about, when compared to winyl... ;~)

regards, doug

Right now, 100% vinyl, at least until I can find a CD player I can live with for minimal scratch....
david, if it's gnu-music ya wanna hear, i tink yule be quite disappointed w/the sound of radio - most pop-stations are *wery* compressed; something like a dbx 3bx is *mandatory* w/these stations.

and, it's not yust the stations, it's the way the pop-stuff is recorded. i was tickled to be able to find santana's latest *supernatural* on winyl, cuz i'd heard how awful it was mixed on cd - well, the winyl ain't nuttin' to write home about either! it *does* sound quite excellent when run thru the dbx, tho...

doug s.

Isolated down to 100% vinyl. I know record player steps are a rictual or mantra and an important part of the home listening musical experience for me. Something about that TT- Arm and cartridge that fansinates me. Love it when friends bring over a favorite CD, then I plug in the CD plyer into the system. I usually really enjoy the music they have brought, this happens a lot, but I never seem to do CD thing on my own. If I buy that CD it goes into the car or bedroom system for good music - background stuff. Don't mean this to sound snobish at all (please no vinyl/CD flames) but just stating what my source is.
Vinyl over 90%, the rest CD. Classical hardly ever on CD, except, when something really striking comes out, like Abado's rendering of the Beethoven symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic.
depends on what kinda listening - serious listening: 50% winyl, 25% cd, 25% tuna. casual listening: 60% tuna, 30% cd, 10% winyl. +/- 25% of course... ;~)

doug s.

CDs 50%; FM 50% (Boston has GREAT radio...several high power stations with lots of jazz/classical, minimal or no compression or EQ.)
CD: 50%; LP: 25%; FM: 25%.
Of course, if more titles were available on vinyl, that percentage would be higher.
Turntable 90 percent of the time, CD or SACD 10 percent. I do not own a tuner, listen to music from the DSS system very rarely.
CD (Including SACD) at home, about 80%; MD recordings of CD when away from home 10%; CD in car about 5%; Radio in Car about 5%.

Without MD, my life would be miserable.
CDs w/speakers 90% of the time, and 10% w/ Sennheiser 600 headphones plugged into SF Line 2 pre-amp-- hope listening to CDs doesn't do to me what it seems to have done to Cornfed though:>). Cheers. Craig.
i'd say that 75% of my waking hours are spent listening to the voices inside my head. the other 25% is devoted to cd's, at least 'til i get my analouge system up and running again. C'MON, THAT'S A LIE. NO IT ISN'T, DON'T LISTEN TO HER. SHUTUP, BUSTER YO..... whew! got the cd into the transport just in time.
Turntable. CD mostly used for music I do not own on LP, to warm up the amps and for whenever I feel too lazy too get up and flip LP's
my tuner is a great source when i just want music in the backround so it gets the most use plus NY has good radio stations
Good question - I use the tuner most followed by the CD and TT. While things are warming up I just listen to the tuner and a few Golden Oldies. Sometimes I'll forget what I was going to play, as things warm up the sound becomes very nice.
Hate to admit it, but CD/SACD/DAD probably leads the pack by a narrow margin, followed very closely by my turntable and my tuner. It is more convenient than records, that's the main reason. But if I start listening to vinyl, I generally won't listen to CD during that listening session; can't make the reverse claim.
I'm listening to Satellte music stations. Got a coax out/ not bad at all/as it "kills" my fm "tuna"
50/50, cd and tt. Cds for all the music I don't have on 78s - as you can imagine, that's alot of music!

chas
A Scully 270 playback reel modified by Tube Research Labs, playing back various master dubs and production master reels. Turntable close second.
Definitely the cd player, Phx AZ has the worst radio stations, lousy music and too many commercials. I used my tuner quite a bit in the past but not hardly at all these days.
CD but tuner is a close second. I used my seperate DVD so little that I sold both my CD and DVD and bought a single carosel DVD and use it for both now. Bought a new Cassette player about four years ago and have totalled about two hours on it so far.