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...that I fine tune my new headphones while I listen to Hendrix fine tune his guitar at Woodstock 69 w/ the Star Spangled Banner. Also, good re intro into headphone world, as I have been without for months.
may music resume :D
We're finally going to settle into a house in a few weeks, having been on the move for a few years, now. That means a lot has been un-boxed. And for me a significant portion of the personal effects are CD's. And I'm really looking forward to getting back with them.
I also have maybe 30 vinyl albums that I started picking up at used-stuff places here and there in response to my wife getting me one of those mini portable record players with built-in speakers. No, it's not audiophile grade. But neither are the albums. But neither do I fucking care.
Right now that fucker's set up in the garage, which has been perfect because that's where I've been spending most of my un-boxing/un-bin-ing and cardboard-breaking-down-for-recycle time.
So fucking glorious! I've some Moody Blues, some Beatles, a couple Zep's. Yesterday I had Linda Ronstadt's "Greatest Hits" going (the album cover alone is sufficient joy and/or satisfaction, if ya know what I mean..).
In a way, the CDs will be disappointing by comparison. I've so many that I eventually had to trash the casings in favor of relegating the actual discs to spindles, which of course blows convenience out the window unless I painstakingly order them alphabetically.
But what I want to do instead is find sheets of pouches right-sized for CDs, and cover walls with those so that all the CDs are "in sight, in mind", so to speak. That would be so fucking cool.
I suppose dust will wreck that plan unless I'm taking a leaf blower to them on a regular basis. Always something in this motherfucking world....
But what I'm describing sounds like a huge dose of musical freedom compared to being perpetually at the mercy of the for-profit crowd running streaming situations.
I dunno. I guess I'm somewhat addicted to having Alexa play things, and it seems pretty good at it, and I think my wife is a "Prime" member, so there doesn't seem to be extra cost or advertising overhead. But I still feel somewhat a dupe/slave in that arrangement.
Another really cool thing about albums/CDs is there were a lot of bands back when I was a kid whose albums I couldn't afford, and so all I heard was their "hits" on terrestrial radio, meaning I've still not heard 90%+ of what they created. So if/when I can find an album for three bucks or whatever, I'm suddenly unlocking and accessing a world that was there all along, but that a fucking paper route couldn't afford.
It's a rather exciting prospect!
~lacklustre_saint wrote (thread):
I find the period where you're breaking your headphones in, both tedious and enjoyable. It is tedious because the sound is not really good for the first 100 hours or so, but it is also enjoyable because you need to expose the headphones to all types of music, so the playlists become very adventurous.