Not terribly fast. Music only requires about 1.2 MB per minute. This isn’t any sort of challenge for a cellular data connection, so you can certainly get this in your car or in the woods, although it adds up: do it for an hour a day, and you will chew through a couple of gigs of data in a month. That’s my entire monthly cell data allowance. You can of course teach your phone to take advantage of WiFi whenever it’s available, e.g. if you’re going to hang out at your favorite coffee shop for a couple of hours, in which case, hey, free data.
On a plane, not so much. Either you’re buying in-flight WiFi, or relying on MP3 files you’ve downloaded to your phone.
I have three. The one hooked to the TV is a 35 watt/channel RCA receiver and a 5 disc CD player, playing through a pair of 11" Optimus (Radio Shack) speakers. I got the setup when Radio Shack was changing brands from RCA to something else, so everything was on sale. When the Shack had a sale, they had a sale-
A Pioneer turntable rounds out the setup.
Another is a Kenwood M2a amp and C1 pre-amp. I got them for $10 along with a BSR equalizer and used them for about eight years before the right side on the amp blew. I’m hoping to get it fixed some day, but that may never happen.
The third is a Technics receiver and Scott double cassette deck, along with a Sansui turntable. It plays through a pair of Minimus AV speakers and a Bose Cube bass unit, or a pair of Klipsch bookshelf speakers. It’s the system I use for listening to the radio.
Yep, Mr. Athena put together a component system starting with a turntable a couple years ago. Before that, we just had bluetooth speaker and such. That said, back in the day, we both grew up with component systems.
Boy does it ever make a difference! After having it for 2 years, I can’t believe we let our sound system diminish to nothing but bluetooth. Nowadays we have big freestanding speakers, a turntable, a couple amps, a kick-ass DAC for streaming, and probably other things I’m forgetting. We use it daily.
I have two. One is a receiver with CD changer, tape deck and turntable (which still works), attached to some nice Bose speakers. That is the “music” setup.
Also, I have a receiver attached to my TV, cablebox and Bluray player, attached to nice speakers (the brand is escaping me). That is the “TV” setup. There once was a game system attached but that is now exclusively connected to my son’s TV.
Apple Music does this as well. I have it set up so my key “discovery” playlists automatically download each week as Apple updates them. I also have my “Recently Added” playlist download locally as well. That’s enough music to last me any plane flight I might take (my most likely out of coverage scenario).
According to my phone, the above rules mean I have about 5,200ish songs on my phone at a given time.
Neither Mrs Mallard or I are much into “music” in the house so we don’t have a music based stereo system as such. However, in my man-cave I have a nice 10 year old component speaker system hooked up to my TV through my bluray player etc. Love the sound of that. I added a much newer super cheap Panasonic Bluray player a few years ago that lets me play youtube and also has a USB port that allows me to play downloaded stuff on TV.
I have one…it’s a Yamaha receiver with two sets of bookshelf speakers. The living room is really part of a mostly open downstairs area; combined with the high ceiling, the acoustics are questionable at best, so I took the approach of creating sweet spots. I’ve been pleased with the results. The receiver needs to be replaced, as it appears that the part that handles HDMI input/output is zapped, but there are enough input options to make up for that loss. It currently handles a CD changer (not mine), a 30-pin iPod dock (mine), an aged DVD player, a DVR, and a TV.
I still have the '80s-era Technics receiver my parents used; it works, but the audio gets crackly after a few hours of use.