Just thunked a think in the car and decided to ask y’all what do you listen too?
Radio. Alexa, recordplayer, tape or cassette.
Let’s see what rocks your boat…
Just finished restoring a HMV102 from 1943, eventhough it has a Soviet made knock-off sound box it sounds great.
So, at the moment I am listening to shellack-
Gosh…aren’t you worried that the “cartridge” will ruin the vinyl? Even with my Ortofon Qunitet Black I know that every time I listen to a record, I shorten its life.
But impressive stuff, I think we have a few things in common :). I built and am continuing to meddle with my record player, originally a Rega, but practically nothing remains of the original parts 
Vinyl? This baby has a crank and from when it came from there was no… Vinyl. It plows a hard but brittle shellack spinning on the turntable at 78 revs a minute, more or less, and pokes the groove with a tungsten “Middle” needle with 50 to 60 grams at the needle point.
Needless to say this machine would make short work of a vinyl record.
thats very cool, I do spin the odd disk now and then, mostly for nostalgia, can’t seem to throw away my teenage record collection.
I wish I still had mine.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
At home either radio or CD’s. In the car we have a USB stick with the CD collection on it that plays via the car’s audio system.
I moved to an ok hifi setup sometime in 2020, and started buying vinyl on a few occasions every year. Have maybe 20 records, plus some stuff I got from my parent’s old stash they haven’y used in over 30 years.
But now with two toddlers, the serviceable Technics quartz turntable has become a toy for the little one, and the records remain out of sight and out of mind for more than 3 years now. I used to put something to play every week (at least), but when the kids started getting curious the speaker cones started getting dings, and the turntable became a toy, and I had to deactivate the front panel of the A/V receiver 
I’m really hoping in a couple of years the little one will be convinced to leave it, at which point I’ll invest in a semi-decent turntable and start showing them what physical media is. Till then, it’s Tidal or radio.
At the moment I am restoring a Kuba phonoschrank from 1954. Needs some work on the turntable and it uses very hard to get crystal pickup, by now most have deteriorated to dust but I got two that work and it needs a new belt. But the radio works, the “magic eye” works and when you get a good station it has a warm vacuum tube tone that I enjoy a lot.
You’ll get there. Until recently I was in the same boat. However, today my two kids love selecting records to play, know how to start them, turn and take care during taking out and putting them back in the sleeve.
We’re heavy Roon / Spotify connect users, however there’s something special about “touching” your music and un my romantic theory, this is why we tend to think vinyl sounds better. Because its a multi-sensory experience
This!
Similar to linear programming vs video on demand, I would like my kids to have an idea of what it means to have uninterrupted easy access to everything, whenever you want to consume media. It’s pretty much guaranteed that this is going to be their default approach to the subject obviously, but at the same time, it would be nice to have a sense of what physical media means, and what the limitations are sometimes.
I kind of like the term “Touching your music”
At home my grandkids have Alexa (of course) and their Tonieboxes and their playlists, so Music is something you just need to ask Alexa for and Hey presto, the music happens.
Recently they came a-visiting and Grandad needled up the soundbox and spun up the Gramophone.
Gramophones dont have a membrane loudspeaker, they have an exponential horn which makes the origin of the music difficult to locate in a closed room and I was very amused to see both kids trying to figure out where the music is coming from with a puzzled look on their faces. Grandson figured it out in the end by putting his head in the horn of the Upright.