Do you play the same records over and over again?


Akin to my last post about record listening: Do you play the same vinyl records over and over again for their SQ, or do you listen to records just to hear the music, no matter what the sound quality is?

rvpiano

I always choose my listening based on what music I want to hear at that time.  Format and SQ are secondary considerations.  Occasionally, such as last night, I will play a historical record and then change to a better sounding stereo version.  I started the evening with Otto Klemperer and the Vienna Symphony in Mahler Resurrection from 1951.  The sound is good for that vintage but it created an urge for Abbado/Chicago late seventies recording so I switched.  That doesn’t happen very often 

I tend to binge listen to LP, both old favorites and new stuff...do not listen to LP often between these binges which are typically 2-3 weeks long...I otherwise prefer CD but also do lots of streaming...

Seems as though I always have some music playing in my head, fragments of songs.  So that's usually where I start and then it can get pretty far afield after that.

Yesterday started with Sheryl Crow because the lyric "I enjoy a good beer buzz in the morning" struck me for some reason.  Then onto Beethoven's 3rd, then Grand Funk Railroad "I'm your captain".  Then Grateful Dead most of Working Man's Dead and on and on.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Regards,

barts 

I used to. That’s why I love streaming so much. It’s opened a world, literally, of new music.  

@earthbound

Exactly. I find music I have never heard on my computer throughout the week and then binge them on the main system on the weekend. Some are keepers, some are not. But what an adventure it is for an old retired single person. Usually, it is the well recorded that remain on the play list. With so much to choose from why play poorly recorded material?