> Who listens to music any more? That is, focuses primarily on the music, while not doing anything else. Most "listening" today is timepass while driving, or wa

> Who listens to music any more? That is, focuses primarily on the music, while not doing anything else. Most "listening" today is timepass while driving, or walking around wearing iDweebs. Sure, there are the people who read The Absolute Sound and buy overpriced audio cables. They're under 1% of the customer base, and they mostly listen to classical, anyway. Me. Sure, occasionally other people put on musak and I'm forced to have that distracting background noise to whatever I'm trying to do, but when I listen to music by choice, I'm listening to music and that's it. Maybe if there's someone else there I'll talk about the music while listening to it. I don't generally listen to music while driving because it's distracting, although I'll acquiesce to a passenger who wants to listen to music. And no, I don't listen to classical music or buy overpriced audio cables (I don't buy audio cables of any kind). Cheap wired headphones are generally adequate to capture all the sound a FLAC file can produce, and I tend to think that people who do more than that aren't audiophiles as much as audio gearheads. Which is fine, but it's not about the music it's about the equipment. Sound canceling might have some value, but I prefer to simply listen to music in a quiet place.