@tokushi Thanks for your thoughtful and well put together reply Tokushi. All of your ideas and considerations are very helpful. What I’ve been doing the last few weeks is keeping them in another part of the house for listening sessions, they’re not crazy about it but Im sure when it becomes part of the daily ritual things will improve (they keep barking and scratching to come back in) They’ll figure out eventually that they’re not being punished.Thanks again, great reply!
Animals and audiophiles
Lately a few members have mentioned their pets and posted pictures of them in addition to their systems. Its brought to mind this feeling of guilt Ive had the past few years concerning our two rescue dogs. These animals like so many rescues live to be around us at all times following either my wife or I from room to room. My schedule is to return home from work in the afternoon and preform my doctor ordered exercises while listening to music every week day..This can be from one to two hours depending on how focused I am and of course the dogs have been alone at home all day and want to hang out. So you can see the dilemma Im sure, like most bommers I listen to mixture of rock, jazz and blues and sometimes you just want to crank it up a little especially while exercising. Never been a headphone guy and really don’t want to start digging a new money pit either. Its said that they can hear up to 35khz I know but its the levels that concern me, most days I may bump up the volume a little but within a few minutes the guilt kicks in and I turn it back down, shutting them in another room is not a great option and I can’t put them outside because we have Coyote problems in our neighborhood. I’ve read that they can shut down their inner ears to block out background noise so they can focus on particular sounds and wonder if that’s so, they never show any signs of discomfort ,drives me crazy when they’re laying on the floor right in front of a speaker. Any audiophile vets out there care to weigh in? Thanks in advance! Oh and please don’t forward this to PETA Im doing my best.
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My Chihuahua was an audiophile and music lover through and through. She'd sit on my lap and listen for hours as long as she liked the music. Folk, jazz and blues for her but my favorite memory was playing Pink Floyd's Animals. There's a section with wolves howling and she jumped down and joined in the canine party! He would leave if she didn't like what was on, hard rock, atonal jazz and bombastic classical and she was outa there. Of humorous interest, my speakers are Magnapans and She'd often walk up to them and stare and then look behind the panels or slowly walk up between them looking for the source of the sound. One night I swapped dac oversampling mode and she immediately popped up and headed for bed. I took the hint and changed back to nose mode.
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Good job on the rescue dogs, @bikeboy52 ! We have three rescue dogs ourselves. I listen in a room all by myself, and I no longer listen at ear-bleed levels, but quite often when I am finishing up I find two of my dogs have parked them self quite near the listening room door. But for your purposes, if the dogs have some place else in the house that they can relocate themselves to if they find levels objectionable, that's what I'd shoot for. Back in the '90s, when I did frequently listen at ear-bleed levels and my system was in the living room as opposed to its own room, we used to have rescue cats, they would just find a place to disappear to when it got too loud for them. |
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