I’ve been playing around with using MyLot to start some initial ideas or themes. Although lately, I have been steering away from that a little, focusing more on things I find interesting at the moment. For example the last couple of days I posted questions about earworms. Earworms are what my children call a song that is stuck in your head. The only way to get rid of an earworm is to give it to someone else. The fun thing about the Amazon Alexa speaker is you can ask Amazon to play any song. I know after we went to see Bohemian Rhapsody I’ve been having Alexa play a lot of Queen music! Before that and for many years my permanent earworms were Neil Young songs.
The other side of earworms is the external sound production we call speakers. There are some solutions in the speaker space today that are interesting. I like portable speakers from JBL, but there are many other speakers that are interesting. Not, that you have to have a speaker, but the reality of your cell phones speaker is that while it is better now than ever before, you can get better sound from a dedicated speaker. The quality of the sound you hear makes a difference. A dedicated speaker allows you to do other things easily while listening to music, or listening to the conference call. That said speakers on cell phones are a lot better than they were, back in the day.
I also use my Sonos wireless speaker as a broadcast system at home. Apple Carplay lets you broadcast calls and your content in the car. Overall I find that the quality of the speakers makes a huge difference. The other side, however, is that speakers can be expensive. When I was in college, I remember a house my friends and I used to go to all the time. The person that lived there was an adjunct professor but spent all his time and money on Stereo equipment. He had tower speakers that cost more than a thousand dollars apiece. We all used to sit n his living room and listen to music. He also had more than 10,000 LP’s in his house and a reel to reel tape recorder. I wonder if he still has those massive speakers.
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Will you share your earworm song in the comments?
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Yes
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No
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Do you use external speakers at home? (not built in to a TV)
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Marillion is my earworm but I’ve been listening to ELP a lot lately
My earworm right now is a stupid commercial I keep hearing for a car donation service.
oh man, those jingles are the worst
It seems to play every single day at the start of my workout. 🙂 Arrrgghh
and is stuck in your head for the rest of the workout? cruel and unusual punishment
It is, I am going to change what I listen to starting today!
you shouldn’t have to suffer needlessly
Very interesting information. I do not use additional speakers.
Thanks – it has been an interesting survey so far. Fewer people using external speakers than I originally would have thought!
Sometimes they are able to various investigations surprise
that is very true. I like to make an estimate up front what I think the result will be just for fun. I was way wrong on this one!
I am on myLot, and I have never seen you there, but hey I am not there much lol. Great information Doc!
I am @docandersen there as well. I just started about 5 months ago.