Do you listen intently?


How much of your time do you spend really concentrating on the music playing.  And how much time do you listen casually while doing other things?

rvpiano

98% just listening to the music.  TV off, phone in my pocket, lights dim. Probably eyes closed too. I like to let the music flow and drift me away along with it. Mostly jazz and classical. The extra 2% is responding to text messages from my wife one floor up. 🤦‍♂️🙄

Main system mostly intently...use secondary systems when I just want music playing in the house...

It's 50-50 on my main system, but it varies by source.  Shellac records are almost always intently, vinyl records are intently about 70% of the time, CDs are casual about 70% of the time.

My office system is almost always casual whether it' streaming or CDs.

 

Music is on in my house half of the day.  My office system is a thirty year old receiver with cheap two way speakers, hooked to the sound card that came with y Dell desktop. My home theater is a Denon 650H going to some Klispch Floor standers at least twenty years old and my main system is on probably twenty five hours a week.  When I listen to it, I’m generally not doing anything else but relaxing and enjoying the music.  I have a forth system in the basement, but I have barely used it this year.