Listening to Music together!
cnh
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My daughter has this new Mac laptop (actually it's a few months old now-a B-day present), that she has her music on and she also listens to Spotify (I know what that is but have never used it). So I come down and I see her plugging the laptop into a cheap RCA console I have in a small sitting room that powers a couple of old Db Plus 440 bookshelves (used to be owned by Energy, I believe). And I figure she's about to "clip" them! So I take her into the HT room and hook up her laptop to the Onkyo TX-SR 805 (my little beastie HT AVR) and the Polk M-70 and B.A. 300 watt sub (only ran in 2.1--there's a CS2 and two M-30s in there as well).
I normally do not listen to much music on this system. It's the Blu-ray spot and PS3, etc. But we plugged her in, fired up the Onkyo and logged on to her Spotify. She then spent the next couple of hours sharing her play lists of various songs, many of which I'd never heard of (she's 14 and I recently showed her how to play a few guitar chords after which she promptly logged on to youtube and taught herself how to play over a half dozen songs).
I have to admit she has "pretty good" taste! And we had a great time together sitting and sharing and listening to tunes!
Oh, one more thing. Those Polk M-70s on the Onkyo with the sub. Heck of a music system for its price (sure they're not my LSis or SDAs but they have "no right sounding that good on an AVR". I still prefer them to the entry Rti towers). Kudos to Polk for "still" bringing music to the people at these prices!!
cnh
My daughter has this new Mac laptop (actually it's a few months old now-a B-day present), that she has her music on and she also listens to Spotify (I know what that is but have never used it). So I come down and I see her plugging the laptop into a cheap RCA console I have in a small sitting room that powers a couple of old Db Plus 440 bookshelves (used to be owned by Energy, I believe). And I figure she's about to "clip" them! So I take her into the HT room and hook up her laptop to the Onkyo TX-SR 805 (my little beastie HT AVR) and the Polk M-70 and B.A. 300 watt sub (only ran in 2.1--there's a CS2 and two M-30s in there as well).
I normally do not listen to much music on this system. It's the Blu-ray spot and PS3, etc. But we plugged her in, fired up the Onkyo and logged on to her Spotify. She then spent the next couple of hours sharing her play lists of various songs, many of which I'd never heard of (she's 14 and I recently showed her how to play a few guitar chords after which she promptly logged on to youtube and taught herself how to play over a half dozen songs).
I have to admit she has "pretty good" taste! And we had a great time together sitting and sharing and listening to tunes!
Oh, one more thing. Those Polk M-70s on the Onkyo with the sub. Heck of a music system for its price (sure they're not my LSis or SDAs but they have "no right sounding that good on an AVR". I still prefer them to the entry Rti towers). Kudos to Polk for "still" bringing music to the people at these prices!!
cnh
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That's awesome. My daughter has excellent taste in music, too! IMO! She's 17 in a few days. We share a lot of music. Btw, she thinks that most of her friends listen to crap! So what did your daughter introduce you to?
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Well, one group I took to immediately was AWOLNATION among others.
cnhCurrently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!
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While it doesn't happen often, my GF will sometimes tell me to turn it up louder then i'll normally play it. She has some great taste to as we share similar music choices. It's nice to enjoy some music together once i'm a while.
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I've only heard "Sail". Great song!Well, one group I took to immediately was AWOLNATION among others.
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The wife and I always listen together, we have pretty much the same tastes. We also sing to each other, I know, sounds cheesey eh, but we enjoy it. A bottle of vino, some cheese and music.....this also lends itself into listening positions in the other thread.:redface:HT SYSTEM-
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Not cheesey at all. Awesome to connect with someone like that. Sounds like you picked a good one. My wife and I don't have super similar tastes, but when we do connect on a song or artist...pretty sweet!2 ChannelTurntable - VPI Classic 2/Ortofon 2M BlueAmplification - Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II, Parks Audio Budgie PhonoSpeakers - GoldenEar Triton 17.2 Home TheaterDenon AVR-X3300W; Rotel RMB-1066; Klipsch RP-280F's, Klipsch RP-450C, Polk FXi3's, Polk RC60i; Dual SVS PB 2000's; BenQ HT2050; Elite Screens 120"Man CaveTurntable - Pro-Ject 2.9 Wood/Grado GoldAmplification - Dared SL2000a, McCormack DNA 0.5 DeluxeCD: Cambridge AudioSpeakers - Wharfedale Linton 85th Anniversary; LSiM 703; SDA 2A
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My 20 yr. old daughter doesn't care too much for the recent stuff. Strangely, she comes over and spins Dean Martin, Ella, Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Julie London or any of the good older ones.>
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To round out a date evening last night, when we got back to the house, I poured a couple of snifters of Eagle Rare 17, neat, and my wife and I stretched out and listened through all of Eva Cassidy's "Live at Blues Alley," which I'd picked up for the occasion. It was sublime -- if you haven't listened to her, the vocals are out of this world. Effortless, raw, passionate, sublime.
Probably once a month, I try to include an album as part of a date. It really is beautiful to listen through a great piece of music start-to-finish together. Highly recommended.5.1 theater - Pioneer SC-07, Mirage OMD-CC center, 4 x Mirage Omnisats, Boston Acoustics VPS-210 sub
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The wife and I always listen together, we have pretty much the same tastes. We also sing to each other, I know, sounds cheesey eh, but we enjoy it. A bottle of vino, some cheese and music.....this also lends itself into listening positions in the other thread.:redface:
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Awesome thread, WTG guys!!Marantz AV-7705 PrePro, Classé 5 channel 200wpc Amp, Oppo 103 BluRay, Rotel RCD-1072 CDP, Sony XBR-49X800E TV, Polk S60 Main Speakers, Polk ES30 Center Channel, Polk S15 Surround Speakers SVS SB12-NSD x2
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That's pretty much the story of my 18 yr old daughter and I. We share our Itunes playlists, she's showed me some new stuff I like, and she's downloaded some of my older stuff.
As far as concerts, I've taken her to see The Killers and The Neon Trees. I liked both of them ( I ended up buying a Killers concert dvd for myself), and when she found out the wife and I were going to see Roger Daltrey she demanded we take her too (thanks to CSI, she's likes The Who).My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself. -
Damn! I have to listen to music with Old guys who drink my beer.I got static in my head
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When my boys were growing up I always played music,some they liked some not so much.Now they are both in there 30s and come over and ask can borrow your Merl Haggard or David alen Coe or some of your old stuff dad.This just does my heart good they were listening.
