OT: What music do you llisten to?

Hey Dogs, I'm not sure if this has ever been asked but I thought it would be interesting to see what other Dogs like to listen to. I love music and play the drums. I also want to learn how to play another instrument and read sheet music...This may sound wierd but I either want to learn electric bass or the piano (piano mainly because I want to learn to read/play sheet music and everyone says piano is best for learning that). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, my taste in music is VERY eclectic. I grew up on metal, rock and hard core. I still love metal and rock. SlipKnot, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Dio, and many many others. I also really like DropKick Murphys and Flogging Molly. Mumford and Sons is simply AWESOME. Now, I also like some country, jazz, classical and many other types of music and I have quite an extensive collection.

I'm the only person I know that can take out a SlipKnot CD and put in an Enya CD and enjoy it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

So how about all you Dogs...What do you like to listen to? And do you play any instruments?

Later!

PINK FLOYD, I have been to three concerts. My first one was 1977 in Montreal, 1992 in Denver and saw Roger Walters in DC this year. When I really want to shut the world off and the wife is out, I put in some PINK FLOYD and I'm checked out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The "Oldies", Dixieland jazz, easy-listening, and older country music. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

My first concert was the Summer of 1981 when I saw Van Halen on their Fair Warning Tour. Eddie was in his prime and had something to prove, the whole band was on fire! It inspired me to start playing and I chose bass. I wish I could read better and piano will not only help you read, but help you compose music and understand rhythm and melody more.

I listen to everything but I love classic rock, and The original Bay Area Thrash and Punk scene...My Scene!! Nowadays however I prefer instrumental music. A freind of mine is a DJ that makes brutal Psy-trance and chill out music and I love both

Oh I saw Maiden on the Piece of Mind Tour with Saxon and Fast Way (featuring Fast Eddie Clark of MotorHead and on Vocals a very young Dave King of Flogging Molly...yep Dave was a "hair metal" guy but hates to admit it now...they made some OK albums though)

I am also a drummer and Metal head! \m/!

I also have a huge range in musical tastes....Testament, Pantera, Forbidden, A7X....then I can move onto Dave matthews, Phish...heck I even like Eminem...Well his music anyhow...That is the ONLY rap I can listen to.

I have opened for DRI, Ice-T, Nuclear Assault, OverKill, Deftones and a few others....I think that is why I will always be a metal head.....Though I wonder If I can still head bang when I am 80??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Dave King was vocalist for Fastway? Or was he a guest vocalist? I listened to Fastway. They were pretty good back in the day.

I also saw Maiden on their Piece of Mind tour - they were with Twisted sister and Quiet Riot here in FL.

Cool Ireash! Drummers rule! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I saw DRI with Corrosion of Conformity and The Belching Penguins in Tampa. Met them also. they were great!

Nice set also. I have a smaller Ludwig set...I really want a new one.
I've never played any shows or anything but we had a band and we played all the time...Mostly Slayer, Savatage and Metallica...some others.

I used to see Savatage and Nasty Savage live all the time. They were good ole Tampa/Brandon bands.

Almost anything metal, neue deutche harde, classical, techno, classic rock, melodic rock (like Alan Parsons), some punk, a little country/pop/rap/anything else.

Pretty well rounded <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

As for metal, resently discovered "The Sword" and can't get enough of them, totally awesome music. If you don't already know them, check them out on youtube or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9uevsHvAE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7ndxWgW5A

Yes WE DO!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was lucky to grow up and play in the Metal scene when it was big. Metallica had just hit it big and the whole San Francisco metal scene was born. Those were the days!!!

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Heathen, Griffin, Anvil Chorus ...even Y&T were great! Too bad they went Glam and sold out with "Summer Time Girls" If they had kept the Faith and kept Leonard Haze they could have been a lot bigger in the US, BUT they decided to kiss MTV's butt

Oh and Dave King was lead vocalist for Fast Way...he had his Robert Plant/ kinda Dio influenced sound and changed it for Flogging Molly. Supposedly he gets po'd when people ask him about the old days.

Oh and don't make me mention Lethal Creed, Laaz Rocket or Mike Varney and shrapnel records.

Yaz the Spaz was the first Bay Area rocker I met when I was a kid. I saw him at a guitar store I think it was called Fats used Guitars in Berkley. I said "whats up Yaz? I saw you at the Marin Civic Center opening for Y&T!" Yaz said "Thanks man, it was a cool show"...I bragged to my friends.

Wow, that's pretty cool...Never would of guessed Dave was in Fastway. Too bad he is ashamed of it though.

I grew up in the 80's and that was the Metal age. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I went from Sabbath, Priest, Maiden and the like to Pantera, Metallica, Slayer, etc...Then my hard core days with DRI, COC, and others came and then I got into the grunge like Pearl Jam and Nirvana when they came along. I still listen to all of them and I'm very happy to see metal re-emerging. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Even bands like Exodus and VoiVod are playing again. Awesome!

My first Metal show was Voivod, Violence and Forbidden! I love the metal comeback! Sirius has a metal station that I love!

VoiVod!! Chaos Mongers!

I can't believe I listed Bay Area bands like Lethal Creed but forgot Exodus!?

Yeah, my very first heavy album (Not Van Halen, AC/Dc etc) was Maidens Killers album..Steve made me think Bass Players were cool. Geddy was great and so was Entwistle but Steve Harris was a BadA$$!

Then Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Overkill at the same time Misfits, Black Flag DK, CoC started getting play. The big four really helped to get Metal Heads into punk and Slayer started getting punks at the shows

Jerry Cantrell was a great guitarist, I haven't heard the new "Alice" Soungarden was also cool.

Heck yes Pink Floyd! Well I listen to a ton of music.
Impending Doom, Demon Hunter, August Burns Red, Amon Amarth, The Crimson Armada, Norma Jean, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Megadeth, and I listen to complete opposites of that music as well, Louise Armstrong, Adele, Audioslave, JAZZ! Love Jazz. I play piano, played bass until I had to sell it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. My Pandora channel is the max amount of playlists, I can have 100 and I have deleted some to make room for more.

Dan needs to release some metal...heavy metal

I'll use it to slay a dragon like DIO!!



BTW RIP RJD, I saw Dio at the Concert Barn in Antioch on the Holy Diver Tour, Rough Cutt opened up. It was a GREAT show!

My last concert I went to was Sleep in San Francisco last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1OkELnt_NA

But lately I have been listening to the new Radiohead album, MGMT(Siberian Breaks in particular), Arcade Fire(???), Dr. Octagon(Kool Keith), Black Sabbath, and a lot of Reggae(summer).

Whatever I am in the mood for.

Unless I'm with my wife. Then its all pure country and old school hip hop and R&B(I love that stuff too).

Music is food for the soul.

Very good subjection, that right now would be the best metal. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hard to answer... Will try to make it short.

I worked in a music store (cds and tapes) for shout 5 years and after thats I worked in another music store (instruments) for a about 6 years. If you can imagine having access to almost everything musical and actually being able to appreciate all styles of music then you have an idea of what I listen to.

So its easier to say what I don't listen to... That would only be anything that outright blatantly and foolishly sucks! And yodeling! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> And I would actually listen to it but just not a second time hopefully!

I am mostly hiphop/rap but that's more of the default setting for me. Some guys say they listen to everything but it would be very expensive and time consuming to invest in music the way I have been able to. It has been in my job description in some form or fashion for the last 12 years or so. I can say that a large portion of my paycheck usually went right back into music for most of my working career. If not buying CDs then it was buying equiptment . I have had my own personal recording studio(s) for the past 15 years or so and started into music production in the early 90's. I mostly just do and various electronic music but again that's just the default.

My CD collection was pretty insanely random and included some pretty cool stuff. I honestly listened to so much that I started to forget the names of it all. I remember Aerosmith and Frank Zappa when I last decided to alphabetize my CD collection. ...Okay, just deleted some because it was getting long. Il just say I had a crap load of CDs from various artists ranging from common music to complete crap. I also had access to crap loads of promo CDs so I was able to have stuff that I would normally never buy. So it became sort of a "why not?" collection in some cases. I even used to have one CD that I would play for people just to show them how crappy music can actually be. You think you know... I shudder just thinking about it. But I love it all!

I lost hundreds of CDs from car breakins and sold off a scary amount a few years ago. Even lost quite a few to friends and family "forgetting" they had them. I still have enough to waste an entire day shuffleing between random genres. I even get a good laugh when I see I still have a Yanni cd or some Tibetan chant music or something. But II really will pop in A Cuban percussion and rythm disc right after Led Zepplin, Edife Piaf or a string of old No Limit Records CDs. I'm just more likely to be banging out Tribe Called Quest and UGK... Will even spend a day listening to various music that I may not particularly even "like". Somebody likes it and it all has it's place and is no more or less "music" no matter I may feel about.

Oh and if I have the money on me I will usually buy anything original music from any just about anybody selling there stuff in person. Guy on the street selling his rap/rock/country cd or whatever... I'm game!

And last... Even though rap is the default, I love anything with a well played lap steel or pedal steel! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I listen to metal, rock, blues, country, classical. I like music that is played with real instruments not with computers. And that spears-rihanna-etc kind of pop I don´t like, nor do I listen to rap.

My last consert was Eric Claptons in Helsinki.

I (almost)play guitar <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Not too good with it. I´d like to learn piano.

Cool Lazi...I'm very similar. I have a large collection of CD's, Tapes and records (remember those?) and I am also an audiophile so I have spent lots of money on audio equipment. Basically, I have too many hobbies. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I also like Home theater so I have lots of DVDs and Blu-Rays. I guess I'm a media/music/electronics junkie.

As I said, I truly do and can listen to nearly everything.

Not too much rap, but I can listen to Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Eminem (some), 2-live Crew and others. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> but, I consider my default genre to be metal.

So much music...I need more $$$$. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

Audiophile is beautiful sounding word... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

The curse of the music addict! Working for the dealer to pay for your habit!!


I wonder if Dan is taking applications?

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I will listen to abut anything but really like styl of Drop Kick Murphys, heavy metal, and country.

Drop kick murphys are sweet. Been listening to the Gorillaz some. I like it its different and very unique.

Glad to see alot of you guys like the Dropkicks, dont have to tell you that here in Beantown they are legends, saw them at Fenway and INSANE is an understatement!
Sabbath, Deep Purple, old Aerosmith, The Who live is always killer, AC/DC, Nugent, Dio, SKYNYRD!, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker, Outlaws, ZZ Top, Thin Lizzy, Stone Temple Pilots, J. Giels, Moody Blues, Rainbow, Rush, Live, Montrose, old Van Halen, B.O.C., C.O.C., Jeff Beck, Alice in Chains, Tool, Monster Magnet, Bad Co., Joe Walsh, Carly Simon, check out Tori Amos' version of the old Jazz classic 'You Belong to Me' it will bring a tear to your eye. many many more,you get the idea. And of course... BOSTON!
fun topic,thx guys. Regards-Mike

I just saw Flogging Molly in concert and now I REALLY want to see DM's. I forgot to mention Rush and Dream Theater...How can any drummer not like them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Country are my favorites but I like some of most everything except Rap.

+1

Most of the time I am Rock/Metal head here. Straight ahead rock like Black Label Society, AC/DC, Alice in Chains. I also like 80s metal (yeah, I know) and some viking metal like Old Bathory, TYR, Amon Amarth, Falkenbach.

Other times I like more mellow stuff like ambient, celtic and Chant/mood music. Wardruna is very good to chill to. The Chieftains are good. Pretty much all over the place and depends on my mood. Really the only thing I can't abide is Rap.

DRI! NO ONE I know these days has a clue who they are! I got my nose broke in a pit during one of their shows!

Not so much into that scene these days. Mostly, it's upbeat-ish stuff--Toby Mac, Superchick, Newsboys, Sanctus Reel etc. I love Billy Holliday. I'll tolerate Adele. Occasionally I'll get the urge for some early Fugazi, Jawbox, Beastie Boys or Public Enemy. Will throw on Creed from time to time. Also dig a Taiwanese chick band called "Cherry Boom." Bare Naked Ladies are also good for a play (and yes, I mean the band :P )

Back in the day, I used to rock out to Sick Of It All, Jane's Addiction, Black Sabbath, Napalm Death, Cathedral, Dead Kennedies, Dead Milkmen, DRI, the occasional Metallica, House of Pain, Black Flag, Rollins Band, RHCP, Minor Threat, and all sorts of local hardcore from Rochester NY or Buffalo (Hunger Artist, Pressure Head, Powerline, Big Hair, Kablooie, etc., etc.). Also enjoyed the Doors and the Grateful Dead.

I enjoy vocal and choral music--MOTAB, Tallis Scholars, and the like. I actually used to sing opera (professionally for two seasons no less <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> ). I also sang and played bass in an alternative music band (Headcheese) and played bass in a jazz band, pit orchestra for musicals, and a classical music orchestra.

So, any of you dogs beat that for eclectic? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

awesome, alot more Dogs listen to Metal than I expected!

I'm a metalhead, but my tastes are more modern, and European Metal/Black Metal/Death Metal makes up the majority of the hard stuff I listen to.

I've recently been getting into the Technical Metal Genre, Bands like Necrophagist, Meshuggah, Gorod (one of my favorites, the dissonant/harmonious quality of each guitar relative to the other is amazing!), and a prog-Metal band called Tesseract. Having learned guitar, I find I appreciate music in a different manner than I did before I learned an instrument. I noticed a lot of the bands I used to think were amazing and super technical actually kinda.... weren't <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />. I'll listen to pretty much anything, but if it doesn't really hook me, it ends up on my zune and I never listen to it (Blind Gaurdian *cough*). The more technical the better, is my rule of thumb. If it takes some serious talent to play it, I respect that. I don't mean to disrespect the thousands of artists out there, but I wade through a lot of crap before I find something I like.

I'm definitely not limited in my tastes though, I have alot of Reggae and SKA in my collection, and DJ-Tiesto figures prominently into my techo/trance listening. I even have some Katy Perry, makes for great workout music!

This is me too. I especially like older country music, but I'll listen to pretty much anything except rap. Not particularly fond of metal, but every once in a while it isn't too bad.

Whats crazy is I see kids whith shirts of old hardcore bands all the time. I saw a kid with an Excel shirt at Ralph's Super market today and to some Slayer is "classic rock" What the heck!?
When hardcore was starting all the kids just had white shrts and went to work with their sharpies and make their own designs...now they pick up Suicidal merch at Hot Topic!


*logs off to count gray hair*


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I gave up counting gray hairs. I haven't learned to count that high <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Well my daughter were at the Dropick Murphys concert last Sunday.
I listen to all sorts of music, but mostly it is metal and old punk
Funny thing is my favorite artist is Alice Cooper. and has been for about 35 years.
I mostly listen to the misfits, iron maiden, megadeth, manowar, judas priest etc.
Some of the newer stuff i like is 3 inches of blood, unleash the archers, edguy.

I have almost 300 CD's worth of 50's and 60's music. I grew up (my music days)in the late 60's into the 80's.

I like Long Hair music a lot and I think that PINK FLOYD RULES!, The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon, I've taken MANY trips on those two albums with no more assistance than a carpeted floor. So I grew up the the Beach boys, ZZ Top, Credence and the others in that time period. Fond memories. Now days I don't listen to music and don't really watch any TV except here at work. Oh well.

ZZ Top and CCR were great back in the day, heck there was I time when was a Beatles fan.
There is always music playing in my house

No love for Elvis, Dean Martin, or Frank Sinatra?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> How about Neil Sedaka, Don and Phil Everly, Del Shannon, and all of the MoTown greats!??! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Frank Who? haha. A little TO relaxed for me, along with Dino. Elvis, never really was a big fan of his except for a couple three songs maybe.

Now the others Not to bad. I kinda sorta put them into the same time period that I grew up in.

Nothing wrong with a little swing either <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Right on Brother! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> There was a LOT of great music to come out of the 40's! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Captain Beyond "First two albums only"

Montrose
Michael Jackson
B.B.King
Led Zepplin "up to 4th album"
Alan Parsons Project
Rose Elinore Dougall
Tears for Fears
RUSH
Simply Red
Sonic Flood
Perry Como
Switchfoot
Grand Funk Railroad
UFO
Wishbone Ash
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley


Um, those are the ones that leap to mind.

Peace.

Ronnie montrose is one of the great underappreciated guitar players!

I also love the first two Gamma albums maybe even more that the Montrose debut.

I'm a serious metal head. Especially the technical progressive stuff. I love bands like Dream Theater and Opeth.

I'm also a working musician with several recordings out -

http://www.reverbnation.com/robstanley
http://www.reverbnation.com/spiralsiren

Lately, it has been country music for me. I don't know how it happens, but I always seem to end up marrying country girls. God bless them all. I'm an old rocker from way back, but country is what I mostly listen to nowadays.

Rob
Would you mind if my daughter played some of your stuff on her University radio show?

Watch it Soulforged and Bright Eyes are two of my favorite songs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I just got done to listening to some Thin Lizzy (Live and Dangerous as well as Live Life)
Iron Maiden really owes a LOT to them. "The Warrior" "Holy War" and "Sha-la-la" really reveal Steve Harris' inspiration drawn from Lizzy.

RiP Phil

MM

KnotSlip what kind of setup do you have for music listening?

I have now a Jungson JA-88D stereo amp, E-sound E5-m cd-player and DIY broad band loudspeakers (Pencil 12).

I listen mostly to alternative, classic rock, hard rock and metal, with metal being my favorite category, although my favorite band, Primus is not metal. Some of the other bands I like a lot are Slipknot, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Korn, Megadeth, Metalicca, Mudvayne, Pantera, Pink Floyd and Queens of the Stone Age to name a few.
I will listen occasionally to music in genre not mentioned above, but for the most part those are the categories that I listen to.

Anyone listen to Woven Hand? I heard some yesterday and I would like to listen to some more.

Well, I am always in continuous upgrade mode. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I'm currently doing some upgrades. Right now my Audio and Home theater systems are the same system. It still functions really well for both so I am happy but I should be happier after the upgrades.

Current systems and upgrades mentioned where applicable.

Speakers are all Spendor. S5e's for the front with matching center and rears.
Current sub is a Velodyne HGS12 - Upgrading to the Velodyne DD-18+
Turn table is a Music Hall MMF 5.1
Pre-amp is an Acurus Act-3 with DAC and bass mgmt. upgrades - Upgrading to an Anthem Statement D2V
Amp is a 2 ch Adcom 5802 "Audiophile Class B component" - upgrading to ??? Undecided possibly the Anthem MCA 50 5 ch.
Blu-Ray - Sony PS3 - plan to upgrade to a dedicated BR player soon.
DVD - Sony S9000 ES

And lots of money in cables and other accessories.

You guys ain't got no stereo systems, here's mine!

Nakamichi 125 watt receiver, Nakamichi cassette deck, Akai three head Cassette deck, polk audio speakers (5 in each cabinet, with a cross over cable, meaning one speaker on the right plays left music and vice versa)oh and a Techniques turn table.

Now THAT's a Stereo system!;)

Haha, at least it was pretty nice when I bought it in Japan back in 1988.

I remember the NakamiI also have an older Techique turntable. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I just don't use it anymore. I also have a full set of polk Audio speakers minus a center channel which I sold to a friend. That was part of an old system back when i lived in an apartment and was a new grad. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

All decent stuff though. The law of diminishing returns is strong in audio equipment. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Even now when I decide I want to listen to something it still sounds nice to my untrained ears. And I was single then so had money to blow. I DO remember the speakers cost me $800.00 for the pair in the base exchange back then. Oh I also got a Nakamichi CD player. All in all I think I paid about $4K for it, but it could have been 3. I've slept since then so I don't remember.

Skunk Nakamichi should be a proper device. I really don't understand the purpose of mixing the channels!?

Mixing the channels, you could be setting more off center and still hear the other side playing in a more balanced manner. Matter of fact if you sat right in front of one speaker very close you could hear both sides playing, although the opposite side channel was not very loud,just enough to hear, faintly.

KS i am the same as you i play drums and have tried out other insturments as well i can play a cd or song of lamb of god or a band like that and the right after listen to a country song and even some elton john haha but music has been my life for over 10 years and dont know what i would do without it

Well, Skunk in my opinion that´s not stereo. That´s quadrio! Would be interesting to hear your system. Maybe that day when I smuggle the grilled salmon to Missouri. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hey KS, my receiver has a "Loudnesss" knob. IF you turn it all the way up, you can turn the actual volume down lower and you don't "Loose" anything in the music. You know how you loose something when you normally turn the volume down. From my lame explanation can you tell me what it is doing to make it sound so much better at a lower volume? All I know is that it DOES sound better with the loudness turned up and the actual volume knob in a more comfortable listening level.

Haha, as long as you can make it safely to my county you'll be OK! I'll make sure you get amnesty once you make it here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

SK that´s a very nice setup! Because you have power and you are allready using a subwoofer you could think using MG 1.7 loudspeakers? I liked those but I don´t want to use a sub so I´m not going to get them. Btw they were driven with ASR Emitter amp and McIntosh CD!

I figured that would be the last stereo system I would ever have and so far I have been correct. I'm 57 now (not really that old) but it still provides all the listening pleasure we need.

Sounds like one is a gain and the other is a volume attenuator. So you can turn up the gain and lessen the volume. you get more sound across the audio spectrum without having to blast the volume and increase distortion. I could be wrong but thats my take. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I remember the old Nakamichi Dragon - That all the rage when I was younger. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
It was a huge bada$$ tape deck.

THAT is the one that I wanted, but I WAS NOT going to pay 1000.00 just for a tape deck! Mine is the next one down from the dragon.

Ok, that sounds like the technical explanation of it. Thanks.

The loudness is for accenting high and low frequences that are usually heard weaker when listening in low volume. If you have an equalizer with for example 5 to 10 knobs or channels, make it look like a letter U or V and there you have it. A hand made loudness.

Thanks Timo!

I used to have an equalizer but it broke on me so I got rid of it. Oh I also have a DBX unit for the system. It will really remove a lot of the "static or hiss" from tapes and albums.

Yeah. most loudness buttons accentuate the lower end - its basically a bass boost, but how he described his seemed different hence my take at explaining it. In most systems though, loudness is an accentuation of the lower end (bass boost) or in some cases both the lower and upper as tim described.

Loudness is also a fairly good Japanese metal band. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Any fans of Mercyful Fate? Venom? Cetic Frost? Those were all bands from my part- still have the LPs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We must remember the fact that the original loudness describer is a 57 year old male who is using 100 year old equipment to produce sound from quadrion loudspeakers so it might sound different than it normally would. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Ok, I just checked and here is what I got. (all except for the DBX unit)

Polk audio SDA 1C speakers
Technics SL-QD33R turntable
Nakamichi OMS-4 CD player
Nakamichi TA4 STSIS AMP Tuner receiver
Nakamichi RX202 Tape deck (for playing)
AKAI GX95 three head deck (for recording)

Had that system in a room that measured about 15X15.

I don't remember the name of the band, and their albums are packed away somewhere, but Back in the mid 80's there was an American Indian band that had ONE hit. They put out three albums and I got all three. Just thought I would throw that in.
WHEN I listen to music it can be 40's on up. Big Band/swing Jazz Soul(some) and as I said earlier I like listening to Classical music quite a bit too.

Are you slamming ME? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> haha

Classical is a bit of a mystery for me. I like listening to it but I find it difficult to decide where to start.

Sorry Skunk I just had to! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Haha, I would have done the same thing Timo! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

But my equipment is only 23 years old. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I know you would´ve and I´m sure you´ll get your chance - again.





- Lars

Lars! haha I hadn't forgotten, I was just cutting you some slack to give you a false sense of security then I was gonna Pounce like a giant cat! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Should we go back to DC before someone says something - again...?

I like classical music. Dvorak is my favorite.

Dvorak - was he Hungarian? There´s one quite nicely rocking piece I´ve heard from him. Then I bought a cello quartet cd from him and didn,t like it.

Yo Yo Ma playing Bach´s cello sonatas is very beautiful.

I actually got started listening to classical when certain grocery stores put out promotional albums with certain products. My first ones were done by the Boston pops. OH and this was back in the 60's!

One thing I found funny was that a lot if not almost all the music for the Classic cartoons, bugs bunny, roadrunner...etc were all classical pieces. Even the Lone Ranger theme song was a classical piece.

He was a Czech born in a town near Prague.

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 - From the New World <-- is awesome. Give it a listen sometime.

That´s what I said!

Czech = Hungarian? I don't know. LOL

The lucky number 9! It´s that one I was talking about!

I recently bought J.S. Bach Goldberg variations played by Ito Ema. Beautiful sounding record! Nice music well recorded.

I have Loon Tunes, Walt Disney, and maybe a couple more pieces like that on SACD (Super Audio CD).

I went through a classical stage where I bought a bunch of the popular titles and a hand full of random stuff. Classical music is very interesting stuff but I never understand the need to have a particcular piece over and over by various groups. I mean I get it and all but just not my thing to have 8 versions of the LE same thing for the minor details.

But you do understand men buying knives in same blade lenghts and other features just for the minor differences in details or for the different brands?

Hobbies - you just can´t explain them with reason.

That is so true about hobbies. And WHY do they have to get so expensive!

Like music. I have around 300 CD's and I shudder to think how much I have paid for those.

Don´t think - listen! The truth is out there somewhere...

And If we start talking audiio gear I get into recording studio gear pretty heavy myself. Multitracking, studio monitors, microphones, etc... I had a few (yes a few) studio grade 5.1 setups a few years ago that never made it of the boxes. Didn't have time or the facility to actually fire things up. Now I'm down to one setup that I still have yet to actually hook up after 3-4 years. Since I really havent been doing the studio thing it is on my "one day" list...

Here is a picture I took with my SS4 i took a while back. There's two $100(e) audio cables in that picture somewhere. The other cables are about half what those cost. The other couple pieces you see are my 1-bit DSD recorders. Supposed to be about the highest quality recording you can get righ now. My type of gear!



So I do get way deep into the gear! I used to sell and provide some tech support for a $10K keyboard called the Korg Oasys. One of my highlights is taking the keyboard to a studio in NO for Herbie Hancok to use on a performance. While there I meet Fats Domino and a handful of other Jazz legends. The performance was insane and I got to talk shop for a few minutes with Herbie Hancock!! I was so excited I completely forot to grab my box set and CD's to get his autograph. I did get it on something though.

Not so much into recording as I was years ago. I actuay stopped listening to as much music 6 or 7 years ago and I stopped keeping up with artists probably 10 years ago. Now I prefer to listen to instrumentals and random radio stations. Every now and then I hear something that interests me but I'm more likely to wait to hear it again alter than actually buy the album.

Enough is enough. My friend suddenly stopped quitar playing and after a couple of years he said he can listen to music without constantly thinking how the music was played.

You can enjoy music in so many different ways. You don´t have to have expencive equipment but at least when men are envolved the music turns into an art of equipment.

I get it 100% and I actually tried it on for size. Was just not my thing. I've never been into cover songs of any type either though. Well there's a handful of modern remakes I guess that have caught my attention.

But of course having multiple colors of the same knife makes way more since though... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />


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I have almost always enjoyed instrumentals. It is hard for me actually hear the words on so many songs that I just concentrate on the actual music, not the words being sung.

You need Knives in different colors so you can color coordinate with your clothes!

Accessories make the man, just ask Steeley! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> And I might add that at least to me, the ORIGINAL version of a song (I'm talking about MY lifetime original) is the best, Almost all the time.

Most of the music I listen to is in English. So, I don´t listen to the words I listen the music. Some times I read the word if I don´t understand them even if I wanted to. Some times it happens that the song gets a completely different meaning after I read the words. The emotions and intuitions don´t match with the words.

Pink Floyd
Zeppelin
Neil Young
CCR
David Bowie
Bob Marley
Al Green
SRV
James Brown
Beck
Radiohead
Michael Jackson
The Flaming Lips
NIN
Chili Peppers
Pear Jam


Lots of classical.

I have always tended to avoid most music where I couldnt understand to vocals. I do enjoy some old foreign jazzy stuff sometimes. But most songs that I have heard over the last few years I think I would be fine just owning the instrumentals. My MP3 play is mostly old instrumentals and a year or so ago I put a collection of 80's greatest hits on there somewhere. I even bought a set of Motown Instrumentals some years ago. You can still hear the vocals bleed through a little but but is cool to hear the music alone. I actually might to go find those and toss them in the player some time soon.

As for the gear... I love high end gear but never will push that on anybody. I sold music gear for years and that helped me to afford a some nice things. I never left any of my customers to beleive they that the "had" to have expensive gear or spend a lot of money to find satisfaction in what they can achieve. So even though I dealt with a few audiophile guys I could just as easily talk for hours with a guy that only wanted to spend a few dollars (or nothing at all) to get something goings. I actually enjoyed helping people get good results for very little money just as much as I enjoyed putting together my own personal studio.

In fact if anybody here has any audio related questions I'm happy to talk. anything related to computer audio or audio recording would be what I'm best at. I may not know it all but I'm always happy help figure it put and learn with you!

These days, it's mostly Barney, Veggie Tales Silly Songs, and Sesame Street <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

We have a couple of metal bands for children. I´ve bought two cd´s for my kids from "Hevisaurus" (dinosaurs playing heavy metal) and they are good! I like listening to them.

Wow dude! You need to get out more. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

The good ol days, Ruthies Inn was the [censored]

I primarily listen to "metal" and "punk", but I enjoy any music that contains a solid bass player. I played bass (and drums when I was much younger) in some bands in the 90's in San Diego, so I am partial to that instrument.

I tend to listen to bands for individual musicianship versus the band overall. Some of my favoriate bands/musicians are:

Slayer - all time favorite band period.
Jimi Hendrix
Jaco Pastorius
Primus/Les Claypool
Misfits
Charles Mingus
TSOL
SRV
Minor Threat
The Doors
Led Zeppelin/John Paul Jones
Rage Against the Machine/Tim
Flea
Infectious Grooves/Robert Trujilo
Guns'n'Roses/Duff
Funkadelic/Bootsy Collins
Agent Orange
Sodom
Cliff Burton
Lou Reed
John Entwistle
Corrosion of Conformity
Lynard Skynard

RANDY!!!!!

You had me bust a gut on that one. Probably slipped past some Dogs who don't suffer from CRS but I sure do and I appreciate the honest comment.

Peace.

Sometimes when I use an elevator I hit all the buttons between my floor and the floor I am on just to hear the awesome tunes for longer.

Edited for better wit.

I was in a rental car a few weeks ago and it reminded me that I never got into a satellite player of any sort. I think those and mp3 players were just become super popular when I stopped buying a lot of cd's.

Wish I had gotten a satellite player back then. a friend had one and in the few hours I they played a wider range of songs than ive ever heard on regular radio. so much music to hear with one of those little boxes. but I did stumble across something that I will probably be using now. there's a couple apps for phones and computers that stream radio stations. one called slacker radio and the direct competition called (ah, forgot what it's called). guess it's as close to satellite as I'm going to get for now. if I get to where I can listen more regularly I could see having a regular subscription.

I am a big Jethro Tull fan, but really have very ecclectic taste in music.
Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Folk, etc. If it gets me emotionally, philosophically, or just gets my toe tapping, I'll listen to it.

Lazi- are you an audiophile? Are you familiar with high end audio gear or mainly studio gear only? Just curious... I like talking high end audio and music. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have dabbled in the audiophile stuff but I'm mainly studio gear. it seems a good bit of what I know works in both worlds for the most part. or as i say jokingly, "i fake it and nobody has caught on yet.."

but if there are any type of audio related questions then I just go for answers. I can usually talk gear all day. so I had a handful of audiophile guys that would show up to pick my brains for a hour or two. they wanted to talk $100 per cable and I was talking "tear your walls out and put up resilient channel and double dry wall". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> ... but that's would I would do...

but compared to a few of my old customers that have a few thousands in just amps alone, I'm no where near an "audiophile". at least not where I want to be. I know a little about analyzing and treating rooms and a very little about the audiophile marketed gear. a lot of that stuff is heavily rebagged and hyped (imho) so I would probably lean more towards a recording studio style audiophile setup if I was to ever invest in a personal audiophile system. I would probably amp it all with a couple sweet old tube amps but I'd likely run studio monitors, players, and processors in the mix. plus I'm more of a clarity freak than a character freak I think. if I go audiophile my money would go towards a treated room and transparent system first.

I could quite happily follow up 'My plague' with 'Orinocco flow' in my car! My auto changer is mostly full of Slipknot and Linkin Park, there is a Rhianna c.d in there too... Plus a bit of old Metallica (S&M). As far as my mp3 player goes, all bets are off! It is sooooo random! Even got some 90's dance music on it.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

I could listen to this the whole day... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81728841/

I am a recovering Audiophile. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I sold a lot of my gear a few years ago, which consisted of a Counterpoint Tubed PreAmp, and a Cary Tubed amplifier. Thiel Speakers. Thorens Turntable, and an obscure Yamaha CDX 1050 CD player for the front end. This stereo dropped a lot of jaws. Still have Yamaha CD player, and my Thiel Speakers, and am looking at tubed gear again. Pretty set on Conrad Johnson.
I built a Leach amp years ago, which I sold after a heart attack. Needed funds to pay for 120k Hospital Bill. For those of you who are good with electronics assembly, the Leach Amp is one one hell of a solid state amp, which for a build price of under a grand, is as good as any 3k amp out there. Professor Marhall Leach was the Audio Engineering Prof at Georgia Tech, and is a highly regarded contributor to the field. Look it up if you are so inclined.

A little Bowie for these strange times.

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