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| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? I should have added they can both occur simultaneously. Listening is a skill, one that can be improved through mindfulness and practice, judgement is where we go wrong, free your mind and your soul will follow. | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Critical listening and enjoyment listening modes are not mutually exclusive | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Certainly comparison doesn't have to be competitive in the sense one is ranking their system against others, but I'd have never developed a reference for how I wanted my system to sound if I hadn't heard 'reference' systems. From this I desired to... | |
| Dealer affiliations and attitudes, assumptions and lack of respectful engagement in audio. Car culture people more gentle natured, really. The Alfa Romeo and Mustang forums I belong to can get very competitive and sometimes very nasty. Ducati forum mostly good people, nothing to prove. Nicest group of people I've encountered over many d... | |
| Dealer affiliations and attitudes, assumptions and lack of respectful engagement in audio. I always have to question whether nostalgia is looking through rose tinted gasses. There are times when I gaze back longingly to the days when I had far more person to person contact with audiophiles, no internet. There have always been smug know ... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I recall having great envy when hearing or reading about systems far better than mine in early days. I dreamed that some day I could have a system that could compete with those, this was the single greatest motivating factor in building audio syst... | |
| Options to improve digital sound I went through three Mac minis with various diy modifications, the two most effective were mod to operating systems, shutting down unneeded services, the other was adding LPS with Uptone JS-2 and MMK. So this one route and you'd have a pretty nice... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? I'd suggest critical listening can be broken down into two sub modes, one judgemental, the other not. Judgmental mode is for evaluation, listening to sound quality, qualities in order to compare, contrast to some reference. The other mode of crit... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? So I'm really having trouble with what exactly is the definition of critical listening, this what OP asked in original post. Some state that listening to the sound of one's system is critical listening, this inferior to a mode where one transc... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Being that humans are social creatures comparison and competitiveness always waiting in the wings. And success in the material world measured by the value of one's material wealth and possessions. So one must surmount much and remain mindful in or... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? @mihorn I don't get how you'd NOT appreciate and/or listen to the sound of your system if it's pleasing to the ear. For instance I cannot listen to my system without marveling at the way performers are presented with these uncanny three dimensiona... | |
| Brain Farts w/ Roon Nucleus Seems you've had some good advice. RAM is important with large libraries and Roon complex interface, I use enterprise level RAM in my custom server as its extremely reliable and less prone to errors. I also run throttled here, no dsp, volume leve... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Mostly I can't compare many of my components to others as many are custom builds or highly modified. I don't even understand comparisons in many cases as our systems, rooms, ears so unique, difficult to apply a single reference to anything. I... | |
| When using a power conditioner, why is it advised to run amps directly to the wall? No doubt the power supply within amps is critical, first thing I look at with amps, only use monoblock amps at this point. I want both to virtually equal what I see in stereo amps, look at filtering and supply. Your amp should be quiet with this... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? At one time I had this romantic system, totally drawn to the music, and then at some point I became aware I was only listening to certain types or recordings. This probably went on for a year or so prior to this awareness. So I started listening t... |