So...What do you listen to in your car?


I was thinking about this during my drive into Dallas this morning. I just acquired a half-dozen or so new releases on digital - some of which are challenging and really need several listens before drawing a conclusion about them.

Although I wish I owned them on vinyl, I wonder if I'd have given those challenging releases the chance to show their greatness if I owned them on another medium (practically and logistically I can't listen to my analog setup as much as I'd like). Hence, my commutes give me a listen to "get hooked" on a new release (or, a new release to me).

Most of the time (80%), I'm a talk radio junkie. But the rest of the time (20%) it's stuff I have on CD. Never FM or satellite radio.
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Even when my wife is not in the car, I hear her voice "SLOW DOWN".

News/Traffic (10 minutes as they start to repeat themselves) then sports talk radio. SF Giants games all of the time if a game is being played.
I find listening to car hi-fi to be a distraction most of the time: if I am driving in a high performance car, I want to hear what is going on in the car, and around me- if I am doing humdrum commuting- which I consider to be more dangerous than driving on a racetrack- I am even more needful of sensory data from the outside world- errant minivans swerving into my path, the Harley guy who wants to be permanently invisible, etc.

The only time that tunes make sense when I am in the car is on long hiway road trips, which are infrequent.
1010Wins news, WBGO 88.3FM, WFMU free-form radiostation 91.1, WFUV 90.7. Used to listen to K-Rock with H.Stern a lot and now thinking of getting my XM back for more dirty humor...
At home I listen to the music at 33 1/3

In my car I listen to the music at 9,500

ZOOM-ZOOM!
NPR unless it's a long trip. During long trips I prefer cds that work well start to finish.
Usually a stack of my most recently acquired CDs, and favorite CDs from my collection the rest of the time.
Jazz and alternative rock on a fairly tricked out system (for a geezer)! After a recent cd/pre-amp replacement for my car, I had a chuckle over the thought that the currently available gear, with digital control for every parameter, would certainly be the undoing of some of our audiophile brethren! Talk about audiophile nervosa! A tweakers delight/nightmare? Myself; I have the shop install it then leave it alone....mostly :-)
I drive a tow truck, I don't know if my car radio still works I'm in the truck so much. Talk radio mostly...Rush, Hannity, Beck, a mixed up CD that I burned..