Comments on Profile Post by wbass

Mine: Some of my best listening experiences were had in a Toyota Tercel with two blown out speakers and a cassette deck that gently mangled every tape you put into it. Hearing a copy of Darkness on the Edge of Town fished out from under the driver's seat after god knows how long. "Adam Raised a Cain" blasting in total ragged glory.

Guided By Voices. On any system.

I remember a Honda Accord I bought off a friend for $500 like 25 years ago. Had a tape deck, listened to Dirt from AiC till I wore that cassette out.

One time I rigged up some spare damaged 15" woofers and 2" tweeters to a random amp in parallel with no enclosures or xovers, just drivers on the floor, and played some ambient drone music through them. It was truly more felt than heard and heavily distorted especially thru the tweeters, but I enjoyed it nonetheless

Waiting days to hear the exact song I wanted on the radio and rushing to hit record on the cassette sitting in my home stereo to make my own mix of songs I didn't own on CD.

Oh, man, taping songs off the radio... It was all GNR and "O.P.P." for me, but it was probably the start of general audio nuttery.

Sleigh Bells played far too loud, badly distorting on the trash stereo in my Jeep. I think they mixed the first few albums with that kind of compromised playback in mind.

I can totally see/hear them doing that.

My parents' small timber sided c.1980 Sony TV. Mono ~2" paper cone speaker. Matthew Sweet's Sick of Myself has never sounded right to me on any other gear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNfocDNZWY8

Re. Sleigh Bells' mixes, Tom Waits says (semi-jokingly?) that he always listens to rough mixes on his vintage car stereo, because he doesn't trust the studio monitors.

Taping songs off the TV: I recorded all the songs from Singing In The Rain on a cassette.

I guess that's low-fi. But, actually, In later years, I used to run the headphone-out from my TV to my amp. It was higher-fi than the TV speakers, albeit mono. I even did that with a cheap radio alarm.

Songs of my own band in the late 90ies, recorded on a shitty tape deck in a much too small rehearsal room.