How many still use a dedicated hifi just for music

Ixon

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Well for years I've always had a Hifi, back in the 90's it was Separates, upto around 2009 when i changed over to a Onkyo CR-725DAB micro system, while still using my Wharfedale 75th Anniversary Diamond 9.1 speakers & QED Silver Anniversary speaker cable, that i originally bought back in 2008, overall this little setup sounded very good to my ears, not far off the seperates i use to have.

These days though I find myself not using my little setup like i once did, come to think of it i probs not switched it on for well over 6 months now.

I find myself either using the PC with it's vast collection of FLAC & mp3's or my phone which is a S4 for all my music these days both stored on the cloud & on SD card, my CD collection is basically just gathering dust.

It's come to a point now where I'm actually thinking of selling it on and boxing up my CD collection putting into the loft.

I think it sign off the times that I've not used my hifi, & that i've moved on from physical media, as my PC sound setup is pretty decent, plus i have no complaints with the S4 sound wise neither.

So how many of you still regularly use a hifi with CD's, or have you ditched it completely and moved on to using other forms for you music entertainment.
 
I've turned my HiFi from 2.0 into 5.1 so it's home cinema but they are still the same speakers, just different amp. 2.0 still there and it gets used with music still, with a separate CD player top and not the mp3, although it can receive any apple devices on the network for airplay as well.

It's just does more now.
 
Most of the time I listen to internet radio or mp3s via my PC or mobile phone but I do still regularly use my hifi separates for playing CDs. It just depends what I feel like and how much time I've got.
 
I've changed form a dedicated system of seperates to a( fairly inexpensive) yamaha 5.1 receiver with diamond 10.1's front and rear.

Tend to pull music to my xbox from the desktop upstairs and turn the screen off on the tv, or we use the bluray if we want to listen to cd's.

Tbh I don't miss anything about the older system, sound quality is decent and it would be mighty unsociable to crank up the volume enough for the power to make a difference.
 
Still use mine (mostly Arcam), although I haven't bothered to connect the power amp.
Headphones are OK, but don't reproduce that full body effect that you get from standing at a gig.
 
Luckily I've had a decent set of PC speakers and a half decent hifi setup. Haven't used the hifi as much as I'd like to so bought a Bluetooth receiver to make it more convenient.
 
I've gone from dedicated Hi-Fi to a high-end AV system for everything and now back to dedicated Hi-Fi linked to a decent AV system, so I have the best of all worlds.

I listen to albums on CD and vinyl more than I do streamed/ripped music. Partly it's because IMO the quality of those sources outweigh what I get from ripped music even in FLAC, and partly because I enjoy the structure of albums.
 
I've not unpacked my hi-fi from when we moved house in November.

I'm currently debating whether to sell it or not, but I don't think I'd get much for it.
 
I invested my money into a great 5.1 AV system so that it's way above average playing audio. together with a good CD player and Sonos this is the perfect compromise imo.
 
I still use my separates system: Meridian 200/206 -> Quad 66/606 -> Harbeth M30.1. However, the plan is to go fully streaming later this year, so the CDs will be ripped onto a NAS and the Meridian will be replaced by a PC+DAC.
 
I don't play CD's so often anymore but I do use my Hi-Fi all the time just streaming music either via a PC, Phone or Ipod the source is pretty irelevant to me it's all about the listening enjoyment of sitting in a comfy chair and relaxing to some good tunes on a decent sounding system. If you not using CD's get a better source that suits your consumption needs.
 
I want to use FLAC but I will need to rip all my CDs again from the beginning to lossless and it is just too much work, will take days/weeks to do.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I want to use FLAC but I will need to rip all my CDs again from the beginning to lossless and it is just too much work, will take days/weeks to do.
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Bit the bullet and did all mine a couple of years ago having previously ripped them all too MP3 it was a boring ball ache but I'll never need to do it again worst case scenario is a batch convert to a different lossless format.

Took me a good few weeks of changing a CD everytime I walked past the computer but I'm glad I did it now.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Bit the bullet and did all mine a couple of years ago having previously ripped them all too MP3 it was a boring ball ache but I'll never need to do it again worst case scenario is a batch convert to a different lossless format.

Took me a good few weeks of changing a CD everytime I walked past the computer but I'm glad I did it now.
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It will also means I have to start my iTunes library from scratch again...all those album arts !
 
My CD collection is all cut to several drives (for data backup capability), all in FLAC format.
So my normal source is a Meridian MC200 (sooloos), which is basically a NAS/streamer in a single box and sounds fairly good with it.

I do spin disks for music, but that's only when I listen to SACDs, which really are very good on the right system.
 
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