Which do you prefer - headphones or speakers?
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K.
anyways, long answer short, they are apples and oranges.
headphones are also good for when the significant other is trying to watch TV or something. "CAN YOU USE YOUR HEADPHONES????????" hahaha.
Oh you gotta pick one?
Shit, I'll pick speakers so I can walk around.
K.
Akin to this, my favorite time to listen to music is on my Walkman, walking to and from somewhere (usually school.) I have shitty ten dollar headphones and it's a cassette tape or the radio I'm playing, but it works fine and it's always so pleasant. I have no idea how many times I've listened to Hate it or Love It--->Since You've Been Gone---->Common/Kanye - Food---->Still Tippin---->Pistol Pete RUn remix then rewind or flip over and listen to Party and Bullshit---->Sex in the Kitchen--->North 2 The South (CASH A CHECK EVERY DAY BUT I DON'T GOT NO JOB)---->Maps---->Wait
that shit is my routine! A certain kind of intimacy you get with the music over headphones
Speakers.
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was playing nice and loud on Wednesday evening.
Lovely having the windows open and the music loud.
Speakers all the way.
Neighbors and wifey can deal with it if they don't like it.Neighbors can deal with it if they don't like it.
If wifey don't like it, I'll turn it down and shut the door so she can watch TV.
Shouldn't that be Sunday afternoon
I don't mind for the most part. She can watch the umpteen-gazillion-fafillionth rerun of LAW & ORDER while I needledrop the new Joe Bataan, post on Soulstrut and make bhangra crunk remixes like this.
That???s what got me started on this thread. Usually I???m the person at the club saying ???Turn it up! Turn it up!???, but I got in trouble last night for playing the Royals too loud during some Gore Vidal documentary and when I put the headphones on, I didn???t take them off for a good long time - even after the TV got shut off. I was hearing small little things in the songs I had never heard before and that got me thinking...maybe a wall of speakers turned up to 12 is not always where it???s at?
PS. I don???t think Gore Vidal is awful crap.
For me, especially during my college years, and since I didn't have any sort of system, I always listened to mp3s and audio snippets on websites through my headphones which was connected to my laptop. Even after i got some speakers, I always found spending latenights listening to music through headphones a more intimate experience.
If i think about it now though, I think proximity has a lot to do with the satisfaction you get from the sound. When you're on the freeway, you gotta turn your stereo up a few notches, just to get the full range of sound. But with headphones, it's just right there, without having to blast it.
Everything else, I like a regular two speaker set up.
After listening to the Queens Of the Stone Age "Songs For the Deaf" album only in my car for a year or so, I put it on the iPod and heard it through those Sony earbuds, see above MissB quote for rest.
If I really want to HEAR a record I'll use headphones.
im definitely liking these, too. they sound alright!
but overall, if i had to pick, i would say i prefer speakers. i like how with speakers, it can be loud as hell and in your face, or you can just put it in the background and not even really listen to it, but enjoy the vibe it makes. of course you tend to miss all those little spots that are so easy to hear in the headphones,
so nevermind, i cant choose, i like em both.