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I rip all my CDs to uncompressed .wav files, upsample them to 96Mhz, 24-bit, and play them back through my DAL CardDeluxe. The sound is excellent! Plus, I can fit all the CD music I listen to most onto one hard drive, and put the CDs into storage, which saves a lot of space in my small NYC apartment.

Explosions and the noises associated with general mayhem "games" are fine on pc speakers. My stats, tubes and vinyl are what I want to listen to when it comes to music.

Yes. The reality is, like most people, I spend a very large portion of my day in the office. Though my computer is far from the optimal listening device, it is simply the most practical way to enjoy music during the day. Besides, I usually have most new music purchase delivered to work so I end up previewing them while hammering away at the job. Passive listening makes the day more pleasurable and doesn't, in any way, detract from the joy of active listening when I get home.

Only to listen to samples of music I might be interested in buying.

Well I don't have a stereo in my bedroom so the PC is the only form of music, so I have to use it. Also I listen to my favorite radio station in NZ (I'm living in the UK) via the 'net so I have to use a PC at the moment. Its definately not the best quality but if thats all you've got then you have to make do until you can put in a better solution.

When I'm just browsing through the internet, i sometimes listen to the surf channel on Spinner

I use my CD player very rarely. I use my computer to play music, as I find it more convenient to push a button on the keyboard, than to change CDs. With a silent computer, a good soundcard and music that is properly copied and encoded, I'm unable to hear any differences between the two.

As I write this, I'm listening to streaming MP3 audio over the web. I usually tend to listen to techno (gasp!) when I'm at work so the sound quality doesn't have to be as good. Actually, with my Monsoon speakers and a 192k bitrate its not half bad anyway.

Yes, I listen to music on my computer quite often! I also use it to record compilation disks for listening to in the car.

My computer's noisy enough without adding to the confusion. Besides, how can you listen to music with that huge monitor in between the crappy speakers?

I don't even use the CD-Rom drawer on my computer at work

I have a nice two-channel setup in my office. Playing a CD in my computer doesn't seem right.

I'll occaisionally tune into a Hawaiian radio station as background while I'm working on my home PC. I don't actively listen to music on my PC.

Not great sound quality!

Only as background music on my office computer. Never on my home computer.

Of course I do. Well, maybe "listen" isn't quite the right word, but my computer has music playing more often than not. Although it's not like firing up the big rig, it's better than nothing.

96k losslessly compressed thru pro sound card. CD player? Pish!

You are joking! Pre- valve era sound, er,,,even worse, get a life!

The quality of the soundcards are not upto audiophile standards.

Hardly ever. Somehow it just isn't nearly as much fun as listening with components.

Only out of convenience. I have Jamo CS-5 speakers instead of silly plastic wannabe's, and the sound aint too bad when I need to do some computer work.

I play CDs on the CD-ROM drive through Cambridge Soundworks system. Sounds better than a boombox (or silence).

I listen almost always, but given that I don't have DSL I encountered net congestion while streaming music and surfing . . . so instead,I now incorporate my satellite dish's music coming off my main system's preamp--to the computer's outboard system. I wish I had thought to do it earlier.

I record my favorite CDs to MP3 so I have music at work and in the car.

My home system is so far beyond the sound quality of my computer

Speakers stink. While there are decent sounds cards, the CD-Rom readers are not the most stable things in the world.

I only listen to streaming audio, like radio stations that offer more unique programming than what I can get from the commercial crap we have here.

I only listen to 9 out of the 10 voices in my head! Today, they said to stay home from work and clean the guns. . . .

Why on earth would I subject myself to anything as vile as sound on my PC? (I am an IT consultant, have no bias against computers, just bad sound). mp3 is an abomination and an affront to anyone with even marginal hearing.

if your a begginging young novice audiophile have the internet and being able to hook a pc to a amp and some pretty decent speakers it great, it lets you spend money on equipment instead of cd's and lp's. But once you move up to higher audio quality mp3 just cant touch cd's and uncompressed music.