John Heisz - Speakers and Audio Projects | What Music do I Like? Four Albums I Just Bought @IBuildIt | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 2 hours ago
What music do I listen to? I figured an interesting way to answer that would be to take the meagre proceeds from the videos on this channel and replace the CDs I used to have. And when I buy some new ones I'll do a quick show-and-tell.
Tell me what you think of this idea.
I've been listening to Neil Young for close to 50 years and he holds a high rank among my favourites. On the radio first, then on tape and then on CD before transferring those to computer and foolishly selling off the originals.
To start off my collection rebuild, I picked three of his oldest, "Harvest", "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" and "After the Gold Rush". I also ordered his self titled "Neil Young" CD but haven't received it yet. I should say that I'm not into his newer stuff, preferring his work from before 1980. That dividing line has everything to do with the quality of what he's put out from purely a musical standpoint, and not with his decision to inject more of his activism into what he's releasing. I think that, with few exceptions, musical creativity has a best before date for most artists and their work tends to get repetitive and stale as they age.
Album number four in this lot is "The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers And The First Edition". I like everything on this one, but especially "Something's Burning".
These might strike you as a pretty boring, safe, run-of-the-mill start and obvious for an older guy like me, but one has to start somewhere. When I was younger I went through a phase where I thought that showing that I'm interested in offbeat, less commercial or obscure stuff would make me seem more hip, sophisticated and mysterious. My contrarian nature bleeding in, if everyone liked it that meant that I shouldn't. Luckily, as far as music is concerned, this period didn't last long.
I like the music I grew up listening to and really didn't go out of my way to find much that wasn't popular at the time. Not that there was the kind of opportunity that exists today with the internet; I was limited to what was available at the time on TV, radio and at the record store. And since I grew up during the 70's and 80's, the popular stuff was actually really good.
That's not me saying I only like older music - I like anything that's good and appeals to me. But the music I listened to while growing up has memories attached, both good and bad, and that makes for a deeper attachment.
I mention recording quality in the video and say that all four of these sound great. I did that because one especially glaring change that an acoustically treated listening room brings is the ability to hear how bad some records are. Stuff that can't be heard well in an average room really shows up when you take away a lot of what the room is adding in with resonances and reflections. How the music is mixed, compression, dynamic range and frequency range are all easy to hear in a treated room.
More on my sins from earlier days and how I let a pretty good music library go to the dogs.
I've always been a music lover, but up until recently I took a very casual approach to how I listened to it and how I treated it. CDs here, there and everywhere - in and out of the case, laying on a shelf with a layer of dust accumulating or lodged among the cords and cables behind the stereo. I'd have music playing in the background on any old thing that could squawk it out and be perfectly happy. And while I love making what could be considered high end audio equipment, it was always more about that - making it - than about using it to play music. The means justified the ends, in other words.
That changed as I got older and I became frustrated with trying to hear music as I had before, and not getting any satisfaction from it. So I started actually listening instead of having it running while I distracted myself with other things. That's when I decided to build a dedicated room to get the most out of the experience.
Now I sit and listen and do just that. I've completely stopped having music playing while I'm doing something else. Very much like anything else I do for entertainment, like reading and watching a movie - they get my full attention.
You can help support the work I do in making these videos:
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What music do I listen to? I figured an interesting way to answer that would be to take the meagre proceeds from the videos on this channel and replace the CDs I used to have. And when I buy some new ones I'll do a quick show-and-tell.
Tell me what you think of this idea.
I've been listening to Neil Young for close to 50 years and he holds a high rank among my favourites. On the radio first, then on tape and then on CD before transferring those to computer and foolishly selling off the originals.
To start off my collection rebuild, I picked three of his oldest, "Harvest", "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" and "After the Gold Rush". I also ordered his self titled "Neil Young" CD but haven't received it yet. I should say that I'm not into his newer stuff, preferring his work from before 1980. That dividing line has everything to do with the quality of what he's put out from purely a musical standpoint, and not with his decision to inject more of his activism into what he's releasing. I think that, with few exceptions, musical creativity has a best before date for most artists and their work tends to get repetitive and stale as they age.
Album number four in this lot is "The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers And The First Edition". I like everything on this one, but especially "Something's Burning".
These might strike you as a pretty boring, safe, run-of-the-mill start and obvious for an older guy like me, but one has to start somewhere. When I was younger I went through a phase where I thought that showing that I'm interested in offbeat, less commercial or obscure stuff would make me seem more hip, sophisticated and mysterious. My contrarian nature bleeding in, if everyone liked it that meant that I shouldn't. Luckily, as far as music is concerned, this period didn't last long.
I like the music I grew up listening to and really didn't go out of my way to find much that wasn't popular at the time. Not that there was the kind of opportunity that exists today with the internet; I was limited to what was available at the time on TV, radio and at the record store. And since I grew up during the 70's and 80's, the popular stuff was actually really good.
That's not me saying I only like older music - I like anything that's good and appeals to me. But the music I listened to while growing up has memories attached, both good and bad, and that makes for a deeper attachment.
I mention recording quality in the video and say that all four of these sound great. I did that because one especially glaring change that an acoustically treated listening room brings is the ability to hear how bad some records are. Stuff that can't be heard well in an average room really shows up when you take away a lot of what the room is adding in with resonances and reflections. How the music is mixed, compression, dynamic range and frequency range are all easy to hear in a treated room.
More on my sins from earlier days and how I let a pretty good music library go to the dogs.
I've always been a music lover, but up until recently I took a very casual approach to how I listened to it and how I treated it. CDs here, there and everywhere - in and out of the case, laying on a shelf with a layer of dust accumulating or lodged among the cords and cables behind the stereo. I'd have music playing in the background on any old thing that could squawk it out and be perfectly happy. And while I love making what could be considered high end audio equipment, it was always more about that - making it - than about using it to play music. The means justified the ends, in other words.
That changed as I got older and I became frustrated with trying to hear music as I had before, and not getting any satisfaction from it. So I started actually listening instead of having it running while I distracted myself with other things. That's when I decided to build a dedicated room to get the most out of the experience.
Now I sit and listen and do just that. I've completely stopped having music playing while I'm doing something else. Very much like anything else I do for entertainment, like reading and watching a movie - they get my full attention.
You can help support the work I do in making these videos:
Project plans for sale: ibuildit.ca/plans
Join the ibuildit community on Loacals: ibuildit.locals.com
Support this channel on Patreon:
patreon.com/user?u=865843&ty=h
#diyspeakers
#johnheisz
#audio
My "Scrap bin" channel:
youtube.com/c/IBuildItScrapBin
My main channel:
youtube.com/user/jpheisz
Website: ibuildit.ca
Facebook: facebook.com/I-Build-It-258048014240900
Instagram: instagram.com/i_build_it.ca
