dannyd5050 said:

KoolEaze said:

Is there any specific brand that you guys would recommend? I heard Logitech makes some decent computer loudspeakers. What about other brands? Maybe not necessarily from a company that is specialized in making computer hardware?

I just bought these. They're pretty decent and don't cost a lot. Check out the reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Acoustics-Subwoofer-Satellite-CA-3602/dp/B0027VT6V4

Regarding the topic. I think that when I was young music had a magical, mysterious quality to it that it just doesn't have anymore. I wonder if the young folk of today hear that same magic in today's music that I heard growing up in the 70's, 80's, and some of the early 90's.

Hi, y'know what? I think they do.

There are a few things that contribute to the reason for this.

take prince's Zannalee, if you've never heard anything like it before it's an incredible song.

KoolEaze said:

I pretty much agree with what Vainandy wrote, I still love and enjoy music, and I must admit I enjoy music from the past even much more than I used to enjoy it back in the days when it came out because I either understand the lyrics much better or because I appreciate the musicianship much more. Then again, there are also tons of songs that I appreciate less because as I get older I see that some of the stuff that I liked so much was just stolen here and there. I don´t mind a good sample but come on, when you´ve grown accustomed to a certain beat, melody or hook and find out much later that the main reason why you like a song in the first place was shamelessly stolen, then you lose your appreciation with the swiftness and it leaves a bitter taste.

This being said, I think it has, at least in my case, much less to do with age per se but much more so with the situation we´re in at a certain age. That is we work more and harder, have less time for the good things in life, and probably buy less good music because there is not as much good music out there like there was a few decades ago.

The digital age is nice and practical but on the other hand it makes you a bit too lazy to still play old cassettes and vinyls when you might as well play your music from a hard drive that contains hundreds or thousands of songs, and you don´t have to run to your stereo all the time.

Thing is, most of the time , at least in my case, we listen to digital music on a crappy computer stereo system or crappy speakers in general, unlike in the old days when we would listen to our beloved vinyl or tapes on a decent stereo system.

That is something I want to change this spring and summer....I want to get a decent amp and some nice little loudspeakers with enough boom.

Is there any specific brand that you guys would recommend? I heard Logitech makes some decent computer loudspeakers. What about other brands? Maybe not necessarily from a company that is specialized in making computer hardware?

I simply went to Radio Shack and bought a cord that has one little jack on one end that plugs into the speaker hole in the computer and the other end has two RCA jacks that plug into that back of my stereo receiver either into the auxilary, tape, CD holes that aren't in use.

I still play the hell out of my vinyl but I love to turn on the computer and play it through the stereo. I have thousands of songs in the computer and when I entered them, I also entered genre and year. That way, I can play songs for hours and hours on shuffle and never know what's coming up next, all at the same time, blowing the roof off the damn apartment.

KoolEaze said:

I pretty much agree with what Vainandy wrote, I still love and enjoy music, and I must admit I enjoy music from the past even much more than I used to enjoy it back in the days when it came out because I either understand the lyrics much better or because I appreciate the musicianship much more. Then again, there are also tons of songs that I appreciate less because as I get older I see that some of the stuff that I liked so much was just stolen here and there. I don´t mind a good sample but come on, when you´ve grown accustomed to a certain beat, melody or hook and find out much later that the main reason why you like a song in the first place was shamelessly stolen, then you lose your appreciation with the swiftness and it leaves a bitter taste.

This being said, I think it has, at least in my case, much less to do with age per se but much more so with the situation we´re in at a certain age. That is we work more and harder, have less time for the good things in life, and probably buy less good music because there is not as much good music out there like there was a few decades ago.

The digital age is nice and practical but on the other hand it makes you a bit too lazy to still play old cassettes and vinyls when you might as well play your music from a hard drive that contains hundreds or thousands of songs, and you don´t have to run to your stereo all the time.

Thing is, most of the time , at least in my case, we listen to digital music on a crappy computer stereo system or crappy speakers in general, unlike in the old days when we would listen to our beloved vinyl or tapes on a decent stereo system.

That is something I want to change this spring and summer....I want to get a decent amp and some nice little loudspeakers with enough boom.

Is there any specific brand that you guys would recommend? I heard Logitech makes some decent computer loudspeakers. What about other brands? Maybe not necessarily from a company that is specialized in making computer hardware?

GREAT POINTS HERE, BUT ESPECIALLY THE HIGHLIGHTED ONE.

vainandy said:

Actually, I think almost everyone in the "Music: Non-Prince" section of the org never grew away from loving music. If we had, we wouldn't be in here almost every day talking about it and we sure as hell wouldn't be argueing about it like we do if we had outgrown loving music.

Many people have outgrown music and you rarely hear them talk about music at all unless someone else brings the subject up. I don't think they were very much into music anyway to begin with and just what you call "casual listeners".

yup.

i still play stuff on vinyl... i don't have an ipod or anything. when i'm cleaning and such i do listen to cd's. but there is nothing like vinyl.