How Do You Learn?


After 5 years back into this HiFi pursuit I realize I may need to reassess
where I spend time finding new information.

So I ask you to please list 'just one' source you consider to be
most important in keeping you well informed of goings on in
HiFi.

I look forward to reading some carefully considered replies.

Thanks
chorus

Showing 12 responses by mahgister

I will recommend salt lamp instead ...

In addition to be also like lava lamp, an interesting looking appearence, they have an audible effect on sound...Ionization or crystal effect, or the two together, i dont know...A chinese audiophile group made the same observation about sound effect than me.... I am no more the only one fool...

But it is not a superlative change for sure but anyway a subtle very audible change for the better.... Not unlike my 3 ionizers...I never speak about them here because too much "brain dead scientism"....I like the orange diffusive light a lot, and the effect on sound is welcome...For peanuts cost... They are under my desk not too far from the speakers and between them, and the third is just beside one speaker....
I like orange color.... It have a soothing effect on soul for me...

I listen music with half the time eyes open, because sound is different not better though, just different, if the eyes are closed or opened but in the darker orange light...

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«Bach is orange color»-Groucho Marx 🤓

«Is Hendrix zebra white/blue ?»-Harpo Marx in heaven  
even my great and legendary Sensei Chihiro Nakao has himself a sensei….

i find those consciously without,  are mostly on an ego trip….sail on….
 The faculty to admire is linked to our capacity to higher perception of phenomenon and values...

It humble ourself and put us at work...

 Thanks for this great reminder tomic60.....
Don’t mess with mahgister and his acoustic POWERFUL methods. Cardinal rule.

I also could not resist

Regards
Great point!
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Remember though that it is very important to create a balance between the marketing publicity and the conditioned urge to upgrade like sheep behind the audio magazine and sound science...

Acoustic embeddings controls is not publicity...

Embed everything right bbefore upgrading.... Is a cardinal rule....Thanks for this good choice of word.....

by not taking any advice from anyone on these forums. Then building and repairing equipment where you can try out different parts to learn what makes the sound sound the way it does.
You are right on the spot for the first sentence!

 But if i had listened to you only  and only repair myself my amplifier or speaker i would had never experimented and used acoustic powerful method....

Then listen to "almost"  nobody...Listen and experiment....

Read acoustic and experiment....

I apologize but i could not resist to your post appeal.....

My best to you....

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The information we need to perceive correctly a phenomenon  is always given to us by our culture, our body, or especially which is greatly  underestimated, by the imagination/intuition/ inspirational attention to specific things even in dreams....
Well, pardon me I need to check out the bouquet of this 2018 Chateau La Tonnelle! This also can be intoxicating.
Thanks
ghdprentice for your interesting posts indeed....
Good posts thanks millercarbon...

Indeed we know that it is impossible to perceive "clearly" something, even to perceive it at all, without any name or concept about it...For example the fist Aztecs "perceiving" Cortès boats dont perrceive boats at  

Learning is always a 2 ways speech/mind gesture toward a body gesture in some living space... And also a body gesture reaction to a speech/mind gesture...




«Reading this i dont know anymore what a gesture is»-Groucho Marx 🤓

«Hearing is a gesture even before becoming the act of listening »-Anonymus Smith

«Your body speak well before your throat »-Anonymus Sioux chief

«Silence could be a gesture brother »- Harpo Marx

«The dogs are not barking»-Sherlock Holmes
Like i already said i learned mainly by listenings experiments.... Many hundreds one...Reading dont replace listenings experiments no more than buying upgrades...

The musical files for example i play right now were the same that i played on the same system 2 years ago....

They are now unrecognizable...

Same speakers, same dac, and same amplifier...

Only change are room acoustic passive treatment AND active controls, also controls over mechanical vibrations, and some decreasing control over the noise floor level of my house...


Results are so astounding that a file i listened to one or two years ago reveal so much details that the music is almost unrecognizable, like a new album...

It is the REASON why i defended my point about embeddings controls of the working embeddings dimensions over and BEFORE any upgrade....

Reading is good, i learned basic acoustic principle by reading, but i understood them REALLY only by experimenting with them...

Then i will not recommend any books there is much good one recommeded here.... But experimenting is the key....Upgrading is a deception most of the times....How do you know if what you bargain for in upgrade is really better if you had never listen to the true S.Q. potential peak of your actual system already ?


I like millercarbon’s post above and would extend it to music. Did anyone see the recent Tony Bennet segment on 60 Minutes? He is deep in the throes of Alzheimer’s but start playing music or put him in front of an audience and a different person emerges. I have seen stroke patients who have been aplastic for years suddenly belt out Christmas Carols when the music comes on. We learn music in different areas of the brain than other language skills. Do we therefore learn to hear differences in the reproduction of musical sounds in a similar way? I have no idea. This is also different from what the OP intended, but a lot more interesting.
Very interesting posts thanks....

Unlike paintings perhaps or colors , sounds and music in a more direct way elicit and and provoke our fellings, will and memories and habits in a deeper way...

All main important events are associated often with a particular music for us or even for the collective...

Then the Tony Bennet  we knows, buried deep under the brain degeneration, could express itself when related to the music and says "hy there! i am here but cannot do nothing more than react to the event "....

It is incredibly moving and suggest the fragility of our essence and at the same time his persistence in spite of the body glue....





The best thing to do for me was listening experiments with simple materials...

Articles and books gives ideas not the low cost solutions at all...

 They sell something with the new idea....then keep the idea and dont buy any stuff...

experiment and listen....

It was my gratifying solution....