How many audio devices are in your home?

[Oeditpus Rex]

Please categorize by method of audio generation, thusly (do not include those in automobiles, unless transferrable from automobile to home):

•CD players — five, including a "personal" player, computer CD drive and DVD player, which of course will also play CDs.

•Radios — 10, including an XM radio.

•Tape machines — Three

•Turntables — One

•Other (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) — None

TOTAL: 19


Do you consider this:

•not enough

•just right

•more than I need

(I vote "more than I need.")

[AlCzervik]

1. i don't know, it doesn't seem exessive to me but i don't know what your needs are.

my house

1 5 disc cd player

2 radios

2 turn tables

9 ipods.

1 bose ipod thingy

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. My needs are

to be able to hear ball games no matter what room I'm in.

(I also have an old boom box in my workshop for just that purpose. But it's outside the house, so I didn't count it.)

:crazy:

[AlCzervik]

10. well there you go.

there is some kind of audio thing in most rooms of my house, for me the garage matters the most because that where i spend too much time either cleaning or fixing something.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Before I got the XM radio

I'd stream ball games on mlb.com, then run like 25 feet of cable to an extension speaker outside.

Sucks to be a fan of an out-of-market ball club.

[Heidi]

2. Oh, you're gonna make me count, huh?

•CD players — six (including three computers)

•Radios — Four

•Tape machines — One

•Turntables — One

•Other (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) — Three iPods: one first-generation iPod nano, a second-generation iPod nano and one video iPod.

TOTAL: 15

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Yeah, we know about the iPods

:P




:hi: :hug:

[Heidi]

11. Here's something for you:

:*

[Redstone]

3. I think four. Stereo in the living room, Bose Wave in my office, boombox in the screen porch, so

I guess only three.

I know I'm supposed to want an ipod, but I just can't work up the desire.

Redstone

[AlCzervik]

4. no need to work up the dseire for one.

if my husband didn't work apple i doubt i'd have one.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. You can count stereo components separately

That is, if you want to waste the mental energy. :silly:

I can't get up for an iPod, either. I've already got multiple sound sources in every room but the kitchen and bathrooms — and I do have a radio in the master bathroom. Why do I need an iPod? :shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

5. Let's see...

5 radios, 6 Cd players, 3 MP3 players, 1 turntable, 3 tape players, 4 computers with stereo speakers.

Does that count as 22?

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Does to me

So far, you're ahead. :patriot:

[Nicole]

13. More than I need

CD players — 5 counting the dvd player & computers

•Radios — 5

•Tape machines — 2

•Turntables — 2

•Other (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) — 1 iPod

TOTAL: 15


Do you consider this: more than I need

[some guy]

14. mmm

1 CD player
2 computers that will play CDs
1 radio
1 cassete player
1 MP3 player/iPod thingy

must be more than I need, since I haven't played or recorded a cassette in several years, and the CD player stopped working a couple months ago. I could get rid of the whole stereo I suppose, since I never listen to radio either ( I only needed it to connect the speakers and the cassette player and CD player alltogether.) But then I'd have to have a MP3 player docking station thingy.

My cell phone will play MP3s if I ever loaded any on to it, but I haven't yet.

[marzipanni]

15. Two household's worth

We inherited some of these when my MIL sold the house my DH grew up in.
•CD players — 3 including a "personal" player (with adapter for using with tape player in car) and
computer CD drive

•Radios — 4

•Tape machines — 4 (one large heavy older tape player/radio in which the tape player stopped working
and it would cost as much to fix it as to get a new one :(, but the radio is still very good :))

•Turntables — 2

•Other (iPods, MP3 players, etc.) — None

[enigmatic]

16. Oh boy

Around 45-50 radios, mostly Shortwave from 1950-70, and ever growing...

7 CD Players

2 turntables; one Rat Shack one from the 70's I bought at a local thrift store for 10 bucks, and a Viking "Hi-Fi" stereo from 1961, I think.

4 mp3 players; just picked up a Ipod Nano knock-off that I'm having fun loading up w/ video and whatever I'm listening to at the time..

2 CB (I know, I know..) radios that I turn on every so often, and a 1000ch Trunked Bearcat scanner as well.

And batteries, I'm buried under batteries.....

[enigmatic]

17. Damn, forgot about tape players

3 Walkman cassette players (including one that went across North America many times w/ me for 8 years), and a couple of cassette/radio bookcase systems.

[mainegreen]

18. 8

Radios: 2
CD Players: 4
Turntable: 1
MP3 Player: 1

Just enough: 1 radio for each end of the house.

CD Players include computers w/speakers or hooked up to receiver.

1 Turntable, a must.

MP3 player? Meh

[BarenakedLady]

19. Let's see

CD players...8

Radios...4

Turntables...0

Tape machines...2

other...4

Total: 18

I guess it's good.

[guitar man]

20. here's some of them :)

I have more, lots more :evilgrin:

[B3Nut]

24. Ooooo! An old Blackface

and an LX-20...I recorded a lot of bad racket on a Blackface ADAT. I really want to get my ADAT tracks off the tapes and into WAV files so I can abuse them in ProTools... :D

I'm another one with lots o' audio devices...in addition to being a musician, I'm an audiophile and I collect older stereo gear. I have lots of components in various states of disrepair in the basement. And it's yard sale season again. :D

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[guitar man]

26. yeah, i'm in the process

of moving a lot of my blackface tapes to either the computer or the HD-24 (that's the top machine) to get them archived so they don't deteriorate. I have a couple old analog reel to reel machines too, been working on archiving the stuff I recorded on them too. Long process, takes up a ton of hard drive space at 24 bits resolution.

[MissMillie]

21. one alarm clock radio

one cassette/CD/radio

my computer

an iPod w/ speakers

I think my DVD player will play CDs but I've never tried it.

My cable company offers a number of digital music stations... I don't know if that counts or not.

[reyd reid reed]

22. I've got:

Radios - 13 (each of the kids has a stereo and a clock radio)

Cassette players - 6

CD players - 8 (I'm not counting the CD drives on the computers or the personal ones -- if I did that, it would go up to 18 or so)

Turntables - 3 (one of them is an old Fisher-Price kiddie one)

Other - 3 (one is Bonehead's MP3 player, DIL has an iPod, and I've got a portable reel-to-reel)

Too much? Maybe -- but a lot of it (okay...most of it) is the kids' stuff.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

23. Eight - more than I need, but most serve other purposes.

One IPod, one receiver, two TVs with music channels, one laptop, on CD/DVD player, one jambox.

Edit to add: XBox 360 - that also plays music too.

[CatholicEdHead]

25. Let's see here

Radios - 5 (though if I end up moving out of state I will need XM for Twins games)
CD Players (including in computers) - 6
Tape Machines - 1
Turntables - 0
Other (MP3 Players) - 3

Total: 15

[bikebloke]

27. One of each of these

Radio/CD player
Portable CD player
Walkman
World band radio
iPod
eMac

[dropkickpa]

28. 4

computer, dvd player, discman, and clock radio. I need a new boombox since Dropkid killed mine last week.

[Spirochete]

29. More than I need

4 DVD players
2 receivers
4 CD players (one portable)
2 tape players
2 clock radios
3 computers (does a laptop count?)

Some of these are just stored away, not being used. And I might have others I have forgotten about.