mahgister
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| Critical listening and altered states "Each perception can be a creative act" ... I’m going to have to muse on that one! Perception may be a robotic act of recognition by the "robotic ego" as in recognizing a known store on a known road... Perception can be too an act of creat... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? Everybody can help us here and many helped me in a direct and indirect way...( for the gear pieces or for advices or for musical inspiration or for discussing acoustics concepts even ASR members lost here ;) ) The list i could give will be numer... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Great post thanks. In this case audiophilia is an affliction in which, just like other addictive drugs, tolerance may be reached which means even greater amounts/better equipment needed to maintain the high. Now, the above contingent ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Cannabis is relaxing and can make the "flowing state " easier for a musician... But in some case it can be handicapping as for Chet Baker....Heroin is not pot... Interesting article thanks... https://www.leafly.com/news/lifestyle/louis-arms... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I will go further, if listening music is not already an altered state of consciousness for you, you have a big problem...It is a kind of deafness which also is in the neurological litterature... Even speech sound and musicality can induce an alte... | |
| DAC 'Scam' Vid To perceive a difference in dac or not on the same price level or not, the room/system/ ears/brain history and parameters are fundamental... Period. | |
| DAC 'Scam' Vid Fortunately for snake oil salesmen and women people want to believe they can hear better than bats. Your post illustrate well what is a sophism: (---Some sellers of snake oil claim that their dac makes an extraordinary difference... ---Th... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? I miss everyone, deceased, banned,gone, even those who were in total disagreement with me as few ASR dudes(i learned a lot arguing with them ) everyone save the 2 idiots who had harassed me in my private mail here... No name are needed.. ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @mahgister Music absorption or immersion cannot coexist with a state of acoustic stress or dissatisfaction... I can’t argue with this but I’m confused about how "absorption" relates to "altered states as related to what @hilde45 stated at ... | |
| DAC 'Scam' Vid If i gave my resume of audio sound quality: --- All pieces of gear by budget limit virtue must be on the same level of quality scale, speakers,dac,amplifier, pre, turntable etc --- A dac installation cannot replace acouastics control at any pri... | |
| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Almost anything commercial and popular... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Very interesting post thanks. I am thinking that musical absorption is better description of what we audiophiles do than critical listening. Music absorption or immersion cannot coexist with a state of acoustic stress or dissatisfaction... T... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I forgot to say to our "text sarcastic corrector" that this poem: Instead, a koan: The words all flow, Yet meaning hides in the prose, Mind in tangled knot. This poem Is not a Koan, because a koan in zen practice is always a "non sensical qu... | |
| Critical listening and altered states An interesting deep scientific discovery about "timbre" meaning for music evaluation and perception : «The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chord... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Now if we forgot sarcasms and ad hominem attacks in poetical form or not, We can say using science that "critical state" of listening in audio and music is determined by evaluation of "timbre" micro-dynamics and meanings... It is why my point... |