See also music making.

I love listening to music. My current lifestyle means that I mostly listen to music either on-the-move or at my desk whilst working. I try to blog about a record from my collection semi-regularly: those are collected at crate digging.

The Setup

Turntable upon Kallax

My home system lives on top of a 4x4 IKEA Kallax, out of the reach of little hands. It's a Cambridge Audio AM10, Eltax monitor IIIs (not pictured: visible here), Dual CS 505 turntable (~1980, a gift from my Father) with an Ortofon DN 165E stylus. I run my workstation through it too.

For headphones, either Sennheiser HD589 Cs, Sony WH-1000XM3, Sony WI-C100 (on the bike or skating), or Sennheiser HD438s (at work).

Historic

I've moved a self-indulgent exploration of music gear of yesteryear to historic.

old minidisc player
iPod
My hacked IKEA expedit unit, to house my stereo

Vinyl

I started a vinyl collection in the early 00s. I sometimes dig into it and write about things I rediscover at crate digging. The reasons to buy records in the early 00s don't really apply anymore. I wrote a bit about that at vinyl killing vinyl.

The Cure records
Maximo Park 7 inches
Nine Inch Nails records

More writing

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