This may be a 'can open, worms everywhere' kind of post, but does anyone have any experience of fitting in music around a family?
I've always had a decent but budget level hi fi in the lounge for my music enjoyment. The thing is, the arrival of my son appears to have somewhat stunted my ability to playback my tuneage in the lounge. either the wee fella's in there rolling around - and I don't want to subject him to too much Tool at such an early age - or it's the evening, and he's upstairs asleep - at which point volume is obviously an issue.
I wonder if the days of a set piece hi fi in the lounge are gone, and this is just too inflexible an option for these current times. I have toyed with moving the system to the dining room, or even investing in some decent headphones instead of new speakers, but both these options mean I will have to take myself off in to solitary to listen to any music. I don't want music to become that guilty and private pleasure I sneak off to do away from everyone else, a competing force. that won't work for anyone, including me.
The only compromise I can come up with is to keep the hi fi in the lounge, accept its use will be limited, but add something like an rCube to have in the kitchen or bedroom for listening as I go about the proliferating list of household jobs etc etc. Obviously I know sound quality is reduced, but the portability etc of something like an rCube is attractive, not least because I'm on a tight budget and can't really afford systems in every room, or a sonos style affair - not that I haven't been tempted.
Anyone else crossed this bridge?
...and can we accept now that there are all kinds of one-liners and dated remarks we could make about 'the old ball and chain' etc etc, and thus bipass that part of the debate!?
Cheers.
I've always had a decent but budget level hi fi in the lounge for my music enjoyment. The thing is, the arrival of my son appears to have somewhat stunted my ability to playback my tuneage in the lounge. either the wee fella's in there rolling around - and I don't want to subject him to too much Tool at such an early age - or it's the evening, and he's upstairs asleep - at which point volume is obviously an issue.
I wonder if the days of a set piece hi fi in the lounge are gone, and this is just too inflexible an option for these current times. I have toyed with moving the system to the dining room, or even investing in some decent headphones instead of new speakers, but both these options mean I will have to take myself off in to solitary to listen to any music. I don't want music to become that guilty and private pleasure I sneak off to do away from everyone else, a competing force. that won't work for anyone, including me.
The only compromise I can come up with is to keep the hi fi in the lounge, accept its use will be limited, but add something like an rCube to have in the kitchen or bedroom for listening as I go about the proliferating list of household jobs etc etc. Obviously I know sound quality is reduced, but the portability etc of something like an rCube is attractive, not least because I'm on a tight budget and can't really afford systems in every room, or a sonos style affair - not that I haven't been tempted.
Anyone else crossed this bridge?
...and can we accept now that there are all kinds of one-liners and dated remarks we could make about 'the old ball and chain' etc etc, and thus bipass that part of the debate!?
Cheers.