My last post on the Knowles Paine thread got me thinking about how everyone else listens to their classical music collection. While I have a decent CD collection, I've pretty much gone exclusively the MP3 (occasional FLAC-lossless type) route. I can remember when our Best Buy in town had a Classical Collection that had it's own room, now it's like one section of the same, well known composers, so maybe my hand was forced a bit, but it doesn't help that I don't like to wait.
I used to have a stereo that we gave away for space reasons and because we got a surround sound system, which I thought would suffice...although I can't say that it really has. Now I'm stuck listening to classical music through headphones on my computer or my MP3 player.
I guess there are a few questions --
1) What is your format of choice? You could also indicated why, although it might be part of my other inquiries below.
2) Do you hear a sound difference? I've read things that indicate why MP3s in particular are so much inferior to CDs or lossless type formats, but my biggest problem is that I just don't hear the difference. I am guessing my hearing isn't what it used to be. I feel like classical music is really tough to listen to on my mp3 player -- it's so soft at points that there are parts that I'm missing altogether.
3) What do you listen to your classical music on? Computer/stereo/etc.?
Sorry for the length of a somewhat trivial, off-topic, issue!
I used to have a stereo that we gave away for space reasons and because we got a surround sound system, which I thought would suffice...although I can't say that it really has. Now I'm stuck listening to classical music through headphones on my computer or my MP3 player.
I guess there are a few questions --
1) What is your format of choice? You could also indicated why, although it might be part of my other inquiries below.
2) Do you hear a sound difference? I've read things that indicate why MP3s in particular are so much inferior to CDs or lossless type formats, but my biggest problem is that I just don't hear the difference. I am guessing my hearing isn't what it used to be. I feel like classical music is really tough to listen to on my mp3 player -- it's so soft at points that there are parts that I'm missing altogether.
3) What do you listen to your classical music on? Computer/stereo/etc.?
Sorry for the length of a somewhat trivial, off-topic, issue!