Just curious....listening poll...

[jaxwired]

1. Do you have a dedicated listening room or is your hi-fi in your main living area?

2. When you listen, do you sit down and just listen or do you just use the hifi primarily while you are doing other things?

My answers:

1. My hifi is in a spare bedroom, not the living area. My wife has no interest at all and my small kids would make short work of my equipment.

2. I'm pretty focused when I listen and do most listening after family is in bed or when they are all out of the house. Love to be alone with my hifi and a cocktail or 2. It's 9pm here right now and I've just finished my first rum/coke and I'm on track 12 of Norah Jones "Come Away with me".... It's been a very hard day, this sure helps....

 

[plastic penguin]

Our hi-fi is firmly planted in the living room. Although the OH doesn't give a damn about sound quality, she loves her modest collection of CD's. Our little one loves her music and watches her DVD's and listens to it via the amp.

Because we are busy, we play music while cooking and the other usual things, like tidying up etc.

Norah Jones album "Come away with me" is brilliant for winding down.

 

[nads]

Main room.

and it depends if i have stuff to do or not.

 

[Anonymous]

I have my hi-fi system in a spare bedroom and when I listen to it (which is usually at night, before I go to bed) I sit down and listen to music and immerse myself in the performance (music).

I have a multi-channel surround sound system in my main open-plan lounge, which is also reasonably good for 2-channel duties, which I turn on when I am doing stuff around the house and am not 'properly' listening to music.

Dan.

 

[vinod_david]

1. I have my hifi in the living area and don't have dedicated room. Like the OH of your's, mine too doesn't give a damn about SQ, but sits down and listen her fav music. Kids don't care a damn too, but sometimes rotates the volume knob just for kicks.

2. I rarely sit in front of system to be soaked in music, but sit in another room in front of pc in spare time with music as background from my hifi.

 

[matthewpiano]

My system is in the main living area. The OH loves music as well and appreciates the sound quality, and we quite often listen together.

When I have the time I like to focus completely on the music. I tend to feel that the amount of time I spend doing this, rather than being distracted by other things, tells me a lot about whether I find the particular equipment I am using engaging or not. For me, being able to immerse myself in music is what good hi-fi is all about.

 

[the record spot]

Main living room, kids are good, no fingers in speakers yet, though my son does occasionally feel the spongy material on the 752 grilles, to date, no disasters but they're easily replaced at less than £100 on Ebay...!

Listening-wise, being unemployed I "enjoy" a lot of free time to listen to music at home these days. So I can really tune into the music, but I typically do a lot of other stuff at the time too; job hunting and household chores typically.

 

[Anonymous]

(1) : Main living area

(2) : I tend to get quite involved and dont like disturbances. 'Er indoors like to listen too but she is an incessant fidgeter..

 

[VoodooDoctor]

1. In the main living room.

2. I try to spend some time just listening to my system (especially at night with the iTunes visualizer on) but I'm really busy at the moment so usually have it on whilst I'm doing other stuff as well.

 

[True Blue]

1. Seperate room which is just off kitchen (open plan)

2. Depends if cooking / socialising etc. I like to have queit time at night listening while other half watching tv

 

[RodhasGibson]

raym87:

(1) : Main living area

(2) : I tend to get quite involved and dont like disturbances. 'Er indoors like to listen too but she is an incessant fidgeter..

Likewise

 

[JoelSim]

1) Main living room

But I do have another set of speakers running off the hifi into my kitchen/diner which can also serve outside on the patio/garden. They are switchable too so someone can watch TV in the living room whilst speakers are working in the kitchen whilst cooking etc. Works a treat.

 

[Anonymous]

Have a Sonos system, so.....

1) Main "big" system (amp/CD/"big" loudspeakers/Sonos/DVD/TV) in living room for all to use and all do use it intensively ;

Sonos ZonePlayers and adequate speakers in main bedroom and kitchen : wife, kids and I love that, and happily argue on the music choices;

My own private kingdom in small "home office" room, with imac, zoneplayer, DAC and top end earphones....bliss. This is where I actually sit, close my eyes and *listen*.

2) Multi-room systems such as this open up all options: sit&listen, cook&listen, lie&listen, chat&listen, all seamlessly....

 

[fatboyslimfast]

1) Systems in lounge and dining room, no dedicated listening room.

2) If by myself (rarely) then I sit and listen. More often than not, it's either whilst fixing someone's computer on the dining room table, or listening to closed headphones in the lounge while SMTBO watches telly.

 

[idc]

1) In the livingroom, though it is headfi and I am in my own corner. But it is nice still being with the family. As I type the wee one is watching Dr Who and playing and the wife is looking at some catalogue wondering how to justify the next pair of shoe purchase.

2) Usually on the internet as the music is PC based anyway.

 

[Anonymous]

Currently the OHs system is being used as the main system in the living room. But am in the process of buying my own HiFi for the bedroom, for times when shes watching TV. With only a small 1 bed flat, its hard to find the space! Lucky that the neighbours don't seem to mind the noise, so far...