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Yeah, there are some "headphone albums", but generally I'd say speakers, partly just because of the way you can physically feel the music when you blast it loud. Especially with, say, some drone music, that feeling of the music just coursing through your body is very important to me. I remember listening to "Sun Blindness Music" from that John Cale "New York in the 60s" Table Of The Elements box set at high volume, and the sensation of just being completely taken over by pulsating force of the organ was one of the most transcendent musical experiences I can think of. Headphones can't give you that.
I guess my view on this is skewed by the fact that my speakers are of a much higher quality than my headphones too. Maybe if I got some really good headphones my view would change... Oh also, the fact that I live in the country, with no other houses for like 2 miles, has an effect, because I can just play music at stupid volume out of speakers at any time, and no one will complain or interrupt me. So there's no division between speakers and headphones for how "personal" they are.
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