To think not having a way to play music in your house is weird?

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Had a playdate with someone recently, got talking about how my ds loves to dance to the moana soundtrack and my friend said "ah that's nice, we don't have any way to play music except through the telly or on my phone"

Surely this is all kinds of wrong. Everyone should have some kind of sound system surely?

It's not cos they can't afford one btw they're just not bothered.

Spotify on the tv here

YANBU, it is weird.

Music played through a phone is tinny and awful. The sound quality is ruined.

Our TV has speakers, but we still run the sound through the amp and speakers when watching a film. It's just so much better.

Nothing weird about it. We have the lastest phones with very good speakers and use them or the TV. You can hear it well all round the house.

And the sound quality isn't personal taste though. It's measurable.

You may not care about the difference, but that doesn't mean the sound from a phone is objectively as good as the sound from a decent set of speakers.

I generally find music irritating, though occasionally I might want to listen to something. I have a CD player - it’s about 25 years old - and I think it still works. But I haven’t used it for more than a year.

I'm not a music snob. Quite a lot of the time I'm listening to Disney music for the kids or musicals (Sahm). But even that's important to me tbh!

Regularly drive with nothing on and just my thoughts.

I do get a bit pissed off with people who are just vague and ‘oh I like all types of music really’- I bet you bloody don’t.

That’s kind of... odd.

I’m like Munchkin I could live without music but not without books.

Can you imagine how odd it would sound if someone said that they were pissed off because an acquaintance didn’t have a favourite genre or author?

For years we were like that. I did have some speakers that I could plug my phone into, but the connection type changed and I couldn’t be bothered to buy new speakers for my new phone because I never used them. We just played music through the tv on the rare occasions when we wanted it.

We do now have an Alexa.

We don't have one. I use the smart tv or iPad to play music for my daughter

You may not care about the difference, but that doesn't mean the sound from a phone is objectively as good as the sound from a decent set of speakers*

Yeah come on, djs aren't playing music from their phone speaker at parties for a reason.

YANBU !
Though we don't have a CD player anymore (use spotify) we do have a retro record player for my husbands Vinyl collection and various Speakers through the house to connect TV, iphones and ipads too. I cant imagine not being able to blast music out throughout the house when I'm in the mood.
And as for parties .......well a decent speaker is a must for all good kitchen dancing sessions !

You may not care about the difference, but that doesn't mean the sound from a phone is objectively as good as the sound from a decent set of speakers.

Well that’s not what I said is it?

Yeah come on, djs aren't playing music from their phone speaker at parties for a reason.

Yes, very obvious reasons!

There's no way you can compare music played from a phone to music played through a speaker. Unless you have bought the worlds crapest speaker

I don’t think anyone did.

I agree op. We have Sonos and an expensive turntable and speakers for our vinyl. I would save my vinyl after my children but before my Chihuahua in a fire 😋

We don't have one. My 13 year old has a bluetooth speaker to play music from her phone. She's the only one who uses it.

We never play music in the house.

I'm with you OP. We have speakers for DH's sound system and use them with the iPod too. 3 DAB radios and numerous Bluetooth speakers around the house. We even play actual records. Each to their own, but I love having a house full of music.

I do get a bit pissed off with people who are just vague and ‘oh I like all types of music really’- I bet you bloody don’t

Too true and this is usually the point where something a little more "experimental" gets put on

Can you imagine how odd it would sound if someone said that they were pissed off because an acquaintance didn’t have a favourite genre or author?

To be fair, I'd be a little aghast about that too if they couldn't think of anything they had read and enjoyed.

Jaysus, ghost
You are that neighbour

I don't think any of the young people I know have anything other than their own instruments, phones, and tv/laptop for playing music.

I have a digital radio in the kitchen that I have on for background music if I have friends round. I wouldn't want it booming though, party style. I prefer to hear what people have to stay.

Do you remember when surround sound was all the rage? Millions of speakers all carefully positioned?

I didn’t care. People would make you sit in the perfect spot in their living room and breathe reverently “isn’t the sound amazing” and I would nod and smile politely while thinking “what an incredible waste of money.

I want the music quality to be good at the theatre or the opera or if I’m watching a concert.

In my living room

(I do realise this is heresy for some of you)

Couldn’t give a shit about music, don’t care about it at all. Have no favourite artists as I like things when I takensn odd notion to listen to a particular track. I listen to music purposely about twice a year other than that I don’t bother. I never have parties and if I did i’d rather be chatting.

Far more weird that you should ask this question, than whatever the answers might be