![]() A lossless, audio-streaming chat room if you will. And while I can (and do) broadcast my taste and selection via Soundcloud, Mixcloud or any number of channels and services, I'd love to see something that allows music lovers to come together and share/stream their picks, taking turns, discussing the records in a live-setting. I'd love to find a way to have something like a listening session among like-minded people without geographic limitations since it's hard to find other nearby people, let alone actual friends, interested in the same deep and niche genres - a barrier that is easily overcome online where like-minded enthusiasts are listening to the same hidden gems, enjoy the selection of well-regarded curators and browse the same hard to find records on Discogs - unfortunately all of that happens rather isolated in their home. I think it's a shame that music has been reduced to background noise these days, a thing you passively and at best semi-consciously consume while doing something else. As a music collector and enthusiast, I find it hard it indeed hard to share this passion as it ahs become a rather niche interest. You usually need a companion subwoofer if you get near field monitors of any size, because they're deliberately made to give a flat frequency response, not to sound beefy, or give a room-filling sound at lower volumes. ![]() And they will absolutely not flatter your source material. Near field monitors are unforgiving and harsh sounding if set up wrong. This kind of speaker are precision tools, made to be used in specific settings, to painstakingly obsess over adjustments in audio mixes. My musician friends are usually horrified when I say we listen to Genelecs (or any near field monitors) for fun. And the room is super good sounding, too. The pair of Genelec 8330A we use at the cottage are just big enough to be enjoyable for our sessions of couchlock debauchery, where we also turn up the volume, and take breaks in order to do so. One of the few residential use cases where Genelecs make sense is as actual 'computer speakers' where you get to enjoy the intensity of that near-field sweet spot.Įven the G Ones plus the F One sub are terrific for this, but at a price where you could get a pretty nice basic home theater. ![]() The cheap Polks I have in my living room make a whole lot more sense for that use case than any smaller Genelecs I could've gotten at trice the price. You probably don't want to buy Genelec "just because musician X swears by them or Steve Jobs had a pair at his desk". I've had Spotify Premium since March 15 2009, and it has done so much for my appreciation of music. So, I'm not grumpy: I like a lot of trends in contemporary personal music listening, mainly streaming for decent quality sources (I equally devour albums, curated playlist and algorithmic recommendations). These are oftentimes bought for reducing or avoiding stress, but they have great potential to counteract the awful trend of people not even having typical 90s micro stereo system at home, but using exclusively laptop or TV speakers, or mono BT speakers. Purists can complain all day long about Bluetooth audio (I say ABX blind test AAC/AptX transcoding or GTFO), but I'm blown away by the potential brought along with the popularity of premium wireless closed-back cans with active noise cancellation. I think a lot of people are more open to this kind of thing than they think. Here's the playlist from our latest adventure If you can, please steal and/or adapt this idea in any shape or form.
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