Reply To: FSM # 13: Do you take the music with you?
I suppose I should answer my own query, now almost 20 years later, with a different health situation and all that:
1. Do you use a personal stereo regularly? Every day or only on long-distance travels?
No. I used my iPod on long-distance travels up until early this year. Don’t know if I will do so again, I hope so. I also use it as a main listening device while I’m AT the actual holiday destination.
2. Do you use it in public spaces like the subway or the street?
No. I like to have all my senses about me when I’m out.
3. What do you listen to and how do you play it (shuffle, album-by-album, song-by-song)?
Back when I listened, it was mostly pop, rock, electronic. Things with a pronounced bass and sound. The extreme dynamics of orchestral music (be it film music or classical music) work poorly. I always played album-by-album, through and through.
4. WHY do you use a personal stereo? What does it ADD to your everyday life?
Well, it passed the time while sitting on a bus or ferry or plane or whatever.