Is this when you have "arrived??"


Just had a guest leave my house after a quick early morning listening session.
Only 4 album sides, the last of them being Tales of Mystery and Imagination Alan Parsons.
Towards the end of the first part, he was making the couch shake. I looked over.

He was crying. (Not because his ears hurt)

He was ashamed. This is the second time this has happened to me, but the first time without "enhancements" being involved.

Have I arrived at true high end?
gumbydammit

Showing 1 response by ngjockey

I've found myself teary during movies. I didn't particularly like the movie and I wasn't even paying attention. I was thinking about something else and the TV was just background noise. That detachment was the key. The right side of my brain independantly managed to associate with something about the movie. Don't ask me what. Couldn't even remember it.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that analytical listening isn't very emotional. Congratulations if your system was so convincing that it managed a suspension of disbelief, to borrow a literary term, that led away from the analytical. On the other hand, it could have been just a distraction.