Entertainment in the Shop

I'm curious, who listens to music/radio/TV etc. in their shop while they're working?
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Music All Of The Time

Hi,

I have a CD player and a fairly decent sounding music system in the shop (shop was our garage in the past 30 x 26).

My music tastes are eclectic. I have Symphonies, Big Band, Western, Instrumentals, Male Singers (pop, rock, Popular, Big Band era, light opera), Female Singers (ditto),

I only play it loud enough to be heard (when Glenn was a kid you could hear his music on the freeway---his group, his: pianos, organs, guitar, etc.). When wearing hearing protection for machinery I cannot hear my music.

I guess you learned more than you wanted to didn't you?

Oh yes, I love music, I cannot carry a tune or play an instrument.

Enjoy,

Jim
 
I know Brent will respond, but I'm only responding because he constantly leaves the TV on out there and I end up hearing ghosts at night. :crazy: He listens to either TV (mainly NASCAR, which I do too) or radio (Car Talk).

Do yourself and your hubby a favor and get an automatic shut-off after x-hours of non use. It's kind of freaky, hearing strange noises at night. And even freakier when you walk all the way to the garage at 2am and the TV is off :eek::eek::eek:
 
Have the old house stereo and speakers out there hooked up to the MP3 player and listen to all kinds of music but mostly up beat stuff. Things that don't upset the neighbors too much :rofl: I have had a couple come over and compliment me on my choices when the beach boys, the Cars or some of the more modern country that I play.

Oh yea but I am half deaf so when the tools are on I wear hearing protection so I can't hear much of anythiung at that point and end up missing half the songs tha play.
 
I have an old Dell Laptop that is just barely running, it is my iPod in the dungeon, I have something like 50G of MP3s on it, I let it play in the background. It does not in anyway distract me from the machines, as my machines are all hooked up to the Cyclone and when that puppy gets the go switch, and I'm wearing hearing protection, well the quad stereo I have down there gets kind of quiet in comparison. On Sunday's I listen to AFRTS on the AM radio, I like the American Country Countdown with Kixs Brookes and then after that I get to listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" which I've been enjoying for about 20 years now.

Cheers!
 
I know Brent will respond, but I'm only responding because he constantly leaves the TV on out there and I end up hearing ghosts at night. :crazy: He listens to either TV (mainly NASCAR, which I do too) or radio (Car Talk).

Do yourself and your hubby a favor and get an automatic shut-off after x-hours of non use. It's kind of freaky, hearing strange noises at night. And even freakier when you walk all the way to the garage at 2am and the TV is off :eek::eek::eek:

hahahhahahaa Sharon, we both leave the TV on all night anyway :rofl: neither of us sleep very well and we're up and down all night so might as well leave it on....I kind of like the background noise. I think I got used to it when the kids left the nest and I was home alone. In the shop, I'm going to put a little cd player/all-in-stereo once I get organized, even if I can't hear it most of the time. ;)
 
I have a CD player/boombox, and I can also hook my iPhone up to it for an extended music library. If I'm doing quiet work and not running any machines, it's turned up to 10. If the DC, compressor, air cleaner, and pneumatic sander are going, I turn it up to 20. :headbang: I listen to all sorts of things...from Nickel Creek and Shania Twain to Yes and Pink Floyd, from Linkin Park and Evanescence to The Killers and The New Pornographers.
 
I have a CD player in the basement that my daughter gave me a few years ago. My taste in music is a little different than most. I have a bunch of CD's that I put together that include barbershop, gospel, and patriotic songs. Statler Brothers, Mills Brothers, Patti Page, and a few others.
I seldom listen to music while driving. Usually talk radio. Unless my granddaughter is in the car then it's Disney songs :D
 
tunes are on.. if i am in the shop mode.. if its a party we can crank it up to let the friends here it as well if i am there alone and doing sanding or light noise its on just enough for my deaf ears,, but if i am really into a song that is playing then its get TURNED up.. once it rocked the speaker of its perch we now have them seat belted in for safty reasons:)
 
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This gets a heavy workout when I'm out there, and I don't have to listen out for the kids. It doesn't get AM, but the internet (iPhone) takes care of that.

Nice and compact, but not great reception. It has to sit on the drill press to pick up the Braves games if I don't use my MLB subscription.
 
Hi,

I have a CD player and a fairly decent sounding music system in the shop (shop was our garage in the past 30 x 26).

My music tastes are eclectic. I have Symphonies, Big Band, Western, Instrumentals, Male Singers (pop, rock, Popular, Big Band era, light opera), Female Singers (ditto),

I only play it loud enough to be heard (when Glenn was a kid you could hear his music on the freeway---his group, his: pianos, organs, guitar, etc.). When wearing hearing protection for machinery I cannot hear my music.

I guess you learned more than you wanted to didn't you?

Oh yes, I love music, I cannot carry a tune or play an instrument.

Enjoy,

Jim

Just about the same for me... I have a nice radio and tape player in the shop... haven't turned it own in over 2 years... can't hear it over the machines...

I love music, but like Jim can't carry a tune in a bucket and only instrument I play is a radio and that's not done well.

When my son Jason was 8 years old we were in church and I was trying to sing with the congregation... I got an elbow in the ribs and this stage whisper from my son..... "Dad, Dad, don't sing.... you sound terrible.." :rofl::rofl:
I only hum in church now.
 
I used to have a TV...it suffered from a dust induced short. Now it's my Ipod. Everything from Copland to Seether...just can't make up my mind:eek:
 
When we went to church, I sang and sang loud, figured God gave me this voice and I would raise it in celebration to him. Now I listen to mainly country, gospel and the oldies on cd's as I don't get reception. Talk radio when I do get reception. Not loud enough to actually hear unless putting pens together. Sunday mornings the local station as that is the program I read for "Psalms of Praise" so get to hear myself from time to time!
 
I love music, but like Jim can't carry a tune in a bucket and only instrument I play is a radio and that's not done well.

Oh yes, I love music, I cannot carry a tune or play an instrument.
Like Chuck and Jim I cannot carry a tune or play an instrument, but I can carry an instrument!:rofl::rofl:

I have a small stereo in the shop hooked up to some additional speakers spread out on the ceiling. Having 6 speakers all over allows me to hear things better without blasting (my neighbors are a lot closer than Larry's). Mostly talk and oldies, although the 'real' oldie station went belly up in my area so now I have to suffer through 70's and 80's music and make believe they are oldies. I also have a Worktunes radio/ear protection. Unfortunately neither will hook to my iPod, something I need to remedy.
 
My tv in the garage has an audio output jack. I use a little fm transmitter and a set of worktunes headphones so I can listen to nascar or the radio.

Love the worktunes also for riding around on the garden tractor when I'm grading the driveway or stuff.

 
I was considering the Worktunes, but several poor reviews put me off due to the reception.
 
I have a radio in the shop that hardly ever gets turned on. I prefer peace & quiet, and rather enjoy the 'swoosh' sound of a plane on hardwood, or the 'zuuba' of a handsaw. Those are better than any music.

Of course, the 'hieroglyphic' sounds when a project goes wrong sorta negates the peace and quiet sometimes...:D:D
 
We are in a pretty marginal area, reception wise, but they seem to do ok for me. AM can get a little sketchy, but the FM stations all seem to come in ok.
 
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