Bright or Dim?

@elizabeth

"Yes am retired..Nine years now. All I do is lay around, listen to music. I am old..."

Thats whats up. Congratulations. You deserve to to exactly what you want to do if you have worked to be able to retire. I want to be just like you when I grow up :) Your not old...you’re wise. How about that.

Ok so I think this is in line with this topic. I have incorporated a lava lamp into he equation. With the lights even dimmer and the lava lamp on makes quite an interesting way to listen to your favorite music (mine being jazz) not sure it would have quite the same effect as listing to Rock.. 

Ok So here is a question. Does the genre determine if the room is better dim or lit? I would think Rock especially some Stones or Hendrix for example would maybe sound better in a brighter environment. No?? How about Sabbath or Parliament.. Would that dictate?

Lights off is very real and very physiological when it comes to attention paid via hearing. Human hearing is an alarm system which never sleeps. But it does vary in the brain power allocated to it.

At night it can save your life, so when dark, it becomes highly attuned. Highly. Shut off the conscious mind and the eyes, then the hearing really perks up. Maximum attention, maximum brain power applied, when it comes to sustained darkness. It is an autonomous function or process, for the most part. Outside of your conscious control, to a notable degree. Just like all parts of our day to day cyclic but varied (in level) functions.

It’s built right into you. Core function.

"Lights off is very real and very physiological when it comes to attention paid via hearing. Human hearing is an alarm system which never sleeps. But it does vary in the brain power allocated to it.

At night it can save your life, so when dark, it becomes highly attuned. Highly. Shut off the conscious mind and the eyes, then the hearing really perks up. Maximum attention, maximum brain power applied, when it comes to sustained darkness. It is an autonomous function or process, for the most part. Outside of your conscious control, to a notable degree. Just like all parts of our day to day cyclic but varied (in level) functions.

It’s built right into you. Core function."


Nice. Makes perfect sense to me. No authority on the matter but makes sense. I was thinking along those lines in my opening post. It just seems like as the environment gets darker the hearing gets more sensitive which in tern makes the music sound that much better. Add a little color to that and ...pure nirvana 

Music creates mood and so does lighting.  I purchased a pair of 2800K (warm white) LED floor spot lights and placed them behind my towers.  This is the only light I use in our living room when listening.  My speakers now look incredible.  This shows off my speakers and helps to set up such a great ambient mood in the room.  Very relaxing and it helps me to focus more on the music.  A great sound system combined with subtle lighting enhances the feeling you get when sitting down to listen to music.  We now spending more than 50% of our time in our living room than in our family room.  For the past 31 years we used our living room twice a year.  We referred to it as our museum.  Now we call it our music room.