newton_john
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| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @unreceivedogma Thank you for starting this thought provoking thread. I did say that I'd come back to it after I given the topic further thought. That turned out to be quite a trip, but here I am again with my response. This is going to be specu... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @mahgister @stuartk @hilde45 is correct in what he says. Even just listening to music for some people is sufficient to induce altered states of consciousness. No stimulants are needed. This is well documented in the scientific literature. He... | |
| Critical listening and altered states If you can achieve this readily, the system has done its job well. Do we need any further evaluation than that? I’d say possibly not. We got there because the mastering was good and the system can correctly reproduce a tune, image well, play deep... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @stuartk Musical absorption is being in altered states of consciousness. As I posted above in the words of AI. "In essence, musical absorption is a fascinating phenomenon where music can profoundly alter an individual’s state of consciousness, ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I just asked Generative AI for more information on Musical Absorption. This is what it came up with. Musical absorption refers to a state of heightened attention and altered consciousness where individuals become deeply immersed in music, experie... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @sns Thank you. Some interesting insights there. I didn’t know that about where Wishbone Ash got the name Argus from. It’s a favourite of mine, too. I’ve bought it twice and am still on the lookout for a clean vinyl copy. My son and I went to s... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @larsman Thanks. Glad to hear cannabis is still doing it for you. I sometimes think about trying it again. Unfortunately, my wife would not approve because she thinks it could get her struck off as a nurse. | |
| Critical listening and altered states @hilde45 Thank you for starting this thread, thus giving me the opportunity to spew out all my thoughts on altered states of consciousness. Someone once told me that ideas are worthless unless communicated. I also find that that they are better... | |
| Critical listening and altered states I was pleased to find this old thread because it concerns a topic that I’ve been thinking about recently. I started researching and writing about this as part of a proposed response to the Analog thread entitled The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Retur... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback Interesting to see two different philosophies here on whether the cartridge comes first or last. Like loudspeakers, the cartridge does make a big difference to the character of the sound. However, that is more a matter of taste than ultimate soun... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @richardbrand What you point to is all amazing technological progress of which we can be proud. My point was that it is all based on physical principles that were already established when we were young. As far as expanding our knowledge of thes... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf The way you took part of my argument out of context and added "??? LOL. OK." was glib and disingenuous, not to mention downright rude. You can add your dear leader with his 20% import tariff to list of middle men pushing up the price o... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf There may be the odd dealer that still has an LP12-50 that they ordered not allocated to a specific customer, but that doesn’t change what I said. Don’t resort to the low trick of distorting what I said by quoting part selectively witho... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf The LP12-50s are all gone. Linn didn’t have the capacity to make the Bedrok plinth upgrade until they’d fulfilled all the LP12-50 orders. The improved sonic performance of the LP12-50 is not entirely due to the plinth. Also, there were... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @richardbrand It is striking how little progress has been made in fundamental physics since I was at university fifty years ago, despite the huge expenditure incurred. So far, string theory hasn't produced a single experimentally testable findin... |