MattHooper
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I find it hard to imagine a situation where someone uses loudspeakers 90% of the time until you simply don't listen to anything when you can't use speakers.
I only ever listen to music on loudspeakers.
I don't like headphones.
Also, these days I tend to take listening to music as a dedicated activity. I don't have music going on in the background a lot - sometimes, but not a lot. If I do that I tend to get over-saturated with music and just want quiet after a while, and feel less inclined to sit in front of my stereo to listen. In a similar way I'm not motivated to have music going all the time including when I'm out and about, walking or whatever. So..I have only some time dedicated to listening to music, and when that comes I sit down in front of my system, which for me is a far more compelling experience than headphones.
The other place I listen to music is in my car and I truly love that too. But, again, not headphones.
(And I'm sort of bummed out by the everyone-using-headphones thing these days. For instance, riding in the car with my sons, we used to play DJ and listen to the same music, making at a more communal family affair. Now they just put on their headphones, go in to their own worlds and listen separately).