I don't often listen to music on the go, except in my cars and occasionally in the commuter train. For the latter I use my smartphone with good quality earbuds (Klipsch).
We have two cars. One is a Hyundai Sonata which has a very nice sound system, but had mediocre speakers (woofers in the door, tweaters in the dash aimed up at the windshield). I upgraded the speakers and am very pleased with the sound. For my other car, which didn't have a USB input for flash drives, I upgraded the sound system and the speakers. Speaker placement is not as perfect as in the Hyundai, but still sounds acceptably good. I feel no need to go to big woofers, my hearing is attenuated enough as it is. My library is maintained as two parallel sets, one largely lossless except when I only have a lossy version, and another which is lossy MP3s. When I rip a CD using dBpoweramp, it is set to automatically rip a flac version to my master archive and also to my online server, and a 320 MP3 to my lossy archive. When I download flac files, I put them in the archive and the server, and convert to 320 MP3 for the lossy archive. I use the lossy archive to populate my smartphone, and to build flash drives for playing in the cars. I routinely make up flash drives with all my newer music, and often get first listens in the car. I also make playlists of various sorts (e.g. alternate takes of the same song by different artists, male/female duets, etc) and play those. I fly a lot for business, and use Bose noise-cancelling headphones. I sometimes play from the smartphone, but more often from a tablet. Again, lossy files. I don't think anyone can tell the difference between flacs and 320s even with the best equipment, much less while mobile. R. LMS on a dedicated music server (FitPC2) Transporter (ethernet) - main music listening, Onkyo receiver, Paradigm speakers Duet (wifi) - home theatre 5.1, Sony receiver, Energy speakers Boom 1 (wifi) - workspace Boom 2 (wifi) - various (deck, garage, etc.) Radio (wifi) - home office Touch x 2 - awaiting deployment UE Radio - awaiting deployment Control - 2 Controllers (main listening, home theatre, all others), Squeeze Remote (on Surface Pro 2), Music2Touch (BB Playbook) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102419 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
