[Skybird]

An old-fashioned hi-fi system from the 90s in my living room, but hardly ever used. Rich CD library, all scratch free, I don't understand why so many people complain about scratches and CDs only live a few years - what do you do with your discs? Do you use them as frisbees or what?

I have Samsung blutooth NC "ear beans" as well as an NC blutooth headphone of the Bigger type, which I use a lot now with a tablet or smartphone, having mostly digitised my old tapes or CDs many years ago. I also use a duo of two Soundcore blutooth speakers in the kitchen (true stereo), their sound quality the way I set them up is unbelievable for 2x40 Euros.

I rarely listen to the radio, too much babbling and strange noise that they misleadingly call "music", but sounds like heavy machines doing work at a building site. I like my CDs and internet radio with theme-based stations without talking. The older I get, the more I feel the need to get away from this crazy world and its crazy people, sometimes I find it really hard to bear people now. I am becoming allergic to and aggressive from media, especially mainstream media.

While they invent many new sound standards and True sound and Natural Sound and whatever it is called, to me these usually are only tricks to boost sales newly, anmd spacious sound tehcnolgies often sound distorted and artificial to me. Despite its bad reputation: stnadard Stereo, 2 channels, if you have a good music sample well recorded and then have it turned into an MP3 with a real high bit rate - I promise you that the overhwhelming majority of people and experts would be unable to reliably note a difference to a CD, no matter what speakers or headphones are being used. And my ears are still top: I could listen to bats, and during an accoustic test just a few years ago was told I had the perception characteristics line of a 15-20 year old. My father even had the so-called absolute hearing/ear, now at high age he lost it.

For archiving I prefer hardware CDs. For everday use, I prefer digital interface and blutooth speaker/headphones, its more comfortable. Also, I am a bit sentimental for my old CDs. They make me remember the time when CDs were new and players were expensive and time was still good.