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Father Time
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4/20/2017 2:02:11 AM
When did headphones kill stereos?
Things sure have changed since I was in college and everybody had a stereo.
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Richard Scotti
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4/20/2017 10:28:18 AM
I think the invention of the Sony Walkman and ear buds was the beginning of the end of stereos and speakers. Frankly I don't even know anyone who presently owns a stereo and speakers or who recently bought them. Even CD players hooked up to speakers are obsolete. It seems that iPhone + earbuds is the main method of listening to music. Most use of speakers is putting a smart phone or an iPod into a speaker dock with little speakers.
It's sad that so much time effort and money is put into making the music in a studio and then in the end it gets shrunken down to tiny little ear buds that sound terrible and can cause hearing damage.
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Steve White
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4/20/2017 11:43:28 AM
I saw this coming a long time ago which is why I mix using headphones.
Steve
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Larree
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4/20/2017 1:14:39 PM
Fuck headphones. I will always listen to music through speakers. Headphones are destroying the communal nature of music. Not only that, headphones are simply not natural. Music is the movement of air. The only air that moves through headphones is the air in the heads of the fucktards who swear by them.
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Steve White
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4/20/2017 1:33:39 PM
LOL!
Thanks for the vote of confidence. :)
Steve
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Larree
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4/20/2017 1:40:34 PM
lolol! My co-writer and partner from Guitar God System mixed exclusively on headphones and it came out great. :D
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Larree
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4/20/2017 1:45:50 PM
But seriously, it really has changed the way we listen to music.
Today, when a new song comes out we get a snippet on iTunes, download it, and listen through earbuds. How fucking boring is that?
But back in the day, when a new album would come out, one person would buy it and we would have listening parties. A bunch of us packed into a room passing joints and listening together.
Music was so much better back then. Not because there is no good music being produced, but because of the way we listen now.
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Steve White
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4/20/2017 1:57:30 PM
I don't know Lar.
I kind of always liked listening through phones even back in the day. I think phones bring you closer to the sound.
What I'm not into and see a lot is people listening to songs just through their cell phone speaker! Man!
Steve
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Larree
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4/20/2017 7:51:22 PM
The biggest problem is that uneducated music listeners don't know what drums are really supposed to sound like. All they know is the digitized, pumped up, fake bullshit.
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4/20/2017 9:00:51 PM
Larree almost makes a point...
all this crap non music,
it wouldn't sound good on a good stereo anyway,
everybody'd realize we're listening to crap.
"Hey! We're listening to crap!" they'd say...
which is bound to happen sooner or later anyway. Crap gets boring.
Good music will come back, I predict, and, with it, stereo sales will rise again too.
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4/21/2017 9:24:24 AM
and it is already happening.
People are beginning to tire of all the 'music as a weapon',
which is at the root of a lot of this hellish non musical noise...
which is why you are beginning to hear more people,
trying to sing, on occasion, actually rocking.
Good Music, will sell brand new and better stereos.
The Industry Itself, is on the verge of a Renaissance.
Everything is always changing, sometimes things devolve,
but sometimes, they evolve. It is happening, as we speak.
And when a new wave of stereos appear on the market,
man they will sound good,
and it'll be, because people are again making music that also, sounds good.
Not just stuff to be a weaponized noise. As far too much stuff
that calls itself music, sadly has become. It's crap, people are realizing this.
And that, is exactly when, The Dawn Breaks. You dig? It's Happening. Right Now.
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