Groucho~ I think it may be a different kind of listening. For one, I can't listen to music and work- it's distracting. Yeah, at the gym, somebody has picked out some channel on Pandora and I listen to it only to identify the recordings. But, my suspicion is that if you asked 99% of the people in the gym what they were listening to, they wouldn't have a clue. It's background for something else.Nice article. I was interested in the idea that it is natural for an audiophile to listen to music "at work". Why? If you're concentrating on the music, you're not concentrating on your work, and vice-versa. Also, I think you only have so many listens to a piece of music before familiarity and contempt kicks in. Why waste those listens using ear buds at work?
I think that's the nub of the matter, and why you can have the seeming paradox of all-time-high levels of music listening while also being at an all-time-low in terms of hi fi equipment sales.The music is wallpaper for something else.
Interesting...since I was in high school I listened to music while I worked all the time. When I work at home in evenings or weekends i always have music on while i work. However, I cannot listen to music when I run! I met only 1 guy like that...a taxi driver who was so surprised to finally meet someone else like that. He said his girlfriend thought he was crazy!Nice article. I was interested in the idea that it is natural for an audiophile to listen to music "at work". Why? If you're concentrating on the music, you're not concentrating on your work, and vice-versa. Also, I think you only have so many listens to a piece of music before familiarity and contempt kicks in. Why waste those listens using ear buds at work?
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