Poll: How do you primarily listen to audio at home?

[JakeK]

Except I don't think you can conclude that 50% of users use subwoofer. The poll suggest 35% + an unknown percentage of subwoofers from the multisystem group.

I agree. I voted multi system and none of mine have a subwoofer. It just doesn't seem all that necessary along with all the satellite speakers. Previously I had a 5.1 setup for the TV and 5.1 for the PC and for various reasons I haven't set those up since we moved house and it hasn't mattered to me that much. When I first got into 5.1 I felt like it was the best thing and I had to have it but that's in the past!

 

[RickS]

Except I don't think you can conclude that 50% of users use subwoofer. The poll suggest 35% + an unknown percentage of subwoofers from the multisystem group.

Maybe, but as I stated and with reasonable assumption that all .x users have a subwoofer, that would be a total of 517 versus the 509 of those without subwoofers. So, would be a bit more than half (of that segment of the population).

 

[Esprit]

I have to suspect that the US vs. ROW (Rest Of the World) divide is large on this front!

I live in a small apartment. I watch TV, movies, series and concerts with a UST projector and the image size is 120".

 

[Robbo99999]

Maybe, but as I stated and with reasonable assumption that all .x users have a subwoofer, that would be a total of 517 versus the 509 of those without subwoofers. So, would be a bit more than half (of that segment of the population).

I suppose you can word it like that, but the easiest way of looking at it is that the figure will be somewhere between 35-50% of all users have subwoofers because we don't know how many users with subwoofers sit in the "Multiple Systems" category (with the "Multiple Systems" category accounting for 14% of the total votes).

 

[RickS]

I suppose you can word it like that, but the easiest way of looking at it is that the figure will be somewhere between 35-50% of all users have subwoofers because we don't know how many users with subwoofers sit in the "Multiple Systems" category (with the "Multiple Systems" category accounting for 14% of the total votes).

I stated my conditions and the rationale in my response. No major decisions are being made based on this poll otherwise I would get into other disclaimers. Since knew I originally was not as specific as I could have been about the subwoofer claim, you caught me and hopefully it is clear now.

 

[Snarfie]

In the attic the audio mancave is partly treated to get a acceptable reverb time. Room correction software is the finishing touch to listen to a pristine balanced sound.
Downstairs in the living room i use a Bose Wave Music System mostly listening to dab radio. A Rapsberry Pi connected to my 3TB HDD let me listen to lossless audio thru my bluetooth Sony WH-1000 headphone corrected by Wavelet house wide.

 

[MMahlke]

I have a 5.1 surround for my main tv room about 15 year old Def Tech pro-cinema and a Yamaha aventage 750 receiver, Sony 4k blu ray disk player. Newest system is 2 channel Arcam sa 20 and Heco Aurora 700 speakers. Pro-ject debut carbon with Ortofon 2m red, Yamaha cd s 303 cd player and a WiiM pro plus streamer will be here tomorrow. I have been buying systems for 45 years and this Arcam amp and Heco speakers are by far the best I've ever had.

 

[dzerig]

I mostly use headphones so I don't bother my roommates, if they are out then I blast 2.0.

 

[TheBatsEar]

I mostly use headphones so I don't bother my roommates, if they are out then I blast 2.0.

Very polite. I do the same.

 

[BJL]

Speaking of Quad, it has indeed been a banner year.
Rhino under the Quadio label has gone back to the original 1970s quad master tapes
and remixed the following to BluRay discs in lossless High Resolution TrueHD multichannel mixes.
I have all the 2023 discs and they sound fabulous.

Just a detail, the Quadio reissues are not remixed. They are mastered from the original quad master tapes. And they are fabulous.

 

[Sal1950]

Just a detail, the Quadio reissues are not remixed. They are mastered from the original quad master tapes. And they are fabulous.

Remixed, remastered, repressed, reborn, whatever.
Just over the moon happy to be listening to them.

 

[Descartes]

Blade Meta 2! If only I wished