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Y es, but it has nothing to do with sound card options. I'm just spending more time at work and less at home. I find it is a good way to get the news each day.

I listen all the time while surfing the net.

Dorm rooms revolve around computers, and it isn't easy to keep up a CD collection when your 200 favorite CDs are a mouse click away. Perhaps I'm the scapegoat the record companies are looking for in this whole encryption affair.

I have a bit of music on my computer, but I'd rather turn my stereo on in the next room, then listen to my little computer system.

Listening to my 12 year old Sony receiver while seated at my office computer is punishing enough.

at least 8 hours per day.

I already have two full blown systems (two channel and home theater). Music sounds pretty pathetic on my computer (either my lap-top or desktop system at home). Not really interested in spending a lot of money on upgraded audio stuff for the computer when the final result is still going to be mediocre.

Then why did I spend the money on a stereo?

With the increase of soundcard and videocard options, my computer is an integeral part of my home theater system

Certainly not anywhere near to my high end system, but the Yamaha speakers and subwoofer work fine for up close music when I'm on the computer.

I get much better reception on internet radio than my outdoor antenna.

I do most of my studio/demo editing using some form of software and pro soundcard connected to my "real" hi-fi system. I think there is a great potential for integrating computers and hi end audio! Just look at the soundcards that Stereophile has reviewed! The integration of technology boggles the imagination! I, for one, support Stereophile's views on using computers in audio, after all, what are the Sonic Solutions workstations (and SADIE) other than task determined computers! You don't hear any audiophiles bitching about those discs that Stereophile has done with those systems because they aren't "real" audio tools!

Only as a background while I'm surfing the internet. NOT as a serious listening environment.

I use it some times, but not because it sounds any good! I just like to listen when working on the PC, and that includes times when I must be vewy, vewy quiet. Who would listen to their PC if they had a choice?

Just while working - never at home to enjoy it. But I found web-radio as an interesting mdeium to see what the music is somewhere else on this planet.

I am amazed at how bad the sound is! 50 years ago, 78 RPM's sounded much better.

i use my computer to search the net for(and sample) music that i can then go out and purchase. i then bring it home and listen to it on my STEREO SYSTEM. i use my computer for surfing and my system for music. go figure,huh!

Only for distant FM streaming audio, or once in a while I'll pop in a CD for background music. BTW, I find MP3 to sound better than Windows Media or RealAudio. I haven't been able to get QuickTime to work for me. (wcpe.org webcasts classical music 24 hours/day in all four formats.)

I've got my 2nd stereo in the bedroom with the computer, so I don't need it. Besides, even the best computer soundcards I've heard sound worst than the typical compact system.

Music is a somewhat intangible, difficult to define entity. However, most of us are aware of the visceral, and sometimes therapeutic, effects of music. That having been said, it is uncomprehensible for me to understand what computers, along with their associated "audiophile" sound cards, have to do with music. Interjecting ANYTHING in a musical reproduction chain will certainly produce an audible degredation in the final sound quality that comes out of a MUSIC reproduction system, i.e., amp, preamp, front end, and two speakers. Let us please stay loyal to the name of the magazine that we read: Stereophile. Leave the computers and their associated peripherals to lesser magazines which are read by those who don't understand the MUSICAL reproduction chain and experience.

With the availability of decent 24/96 sound cards I will start recording my vinyl to DVD as soon as burners reach a reasonable price.

I have a nice system in m computer room, with a MF & SACD, why botter?

I'd rather toss bowling balls in the air and catch them in my teeth . . ..

I often listen to cds on my powerbook with my Sennheiser headphones while I'm surfing, working, etc.

Mostly listen to hear the latest releases, but sometimes listen to either a domestic or foreign jazz station

Yes, I download songs from illegal websites and listen to the tracks over a pair of Grados at work. I usually do this to decide which CDs are worth buying. If a I like a song I've illegally downloaded, I almost always BUY the CD. Are there any record companies listening? This is what most music fans do! Leave the trading sites alone.

USed for background music only whilst working on the PC

I guess I am spoiled by my system.

Primarily as background whilst I work.