@pkvintage, "Rich or poor keep searching to achieve those 10/10 happy scale moments. Happy is just plain happy. Period. It’s what we live for."
Good advice, so so easy to forget. Memories are always important to sustain us as we go forward. It would be heartbreaking to not have enough happy ones. Like yourself, my happiest audio memories go back decades too.
I’m pretty sure no amount of upgrading can change that, but it would be fantastic if my kids ever got into audio the way I did.
@mijostyn, "One day things sound great, the next day lousy. Same system, same room. What changed? Some people might blame it on the recording or maybe a bad tube but mostly it is just the psychological state of the individual."
My first audio dealer (Linn, Naim, Rega etc), who I looked upon with awe once said something very similar. I’ll never forget thinking ’Oh my God, if he with all the high end stuff he has can say that...? Magical times.
@unfairlane, "Our brains are wireless recievers. We need to shut down all the other processes in our heads to get into the listening-mode. Typically 15-20 minutes listening before we are "on", on a good day."
Time for me needed depends upon what kind of day I’ve had but yes I couldn’t agree more. The right song at the right time can turn things around wonderfully.
As GK mentions, unconscious processes are also important.
So much so that I sometimes wonder whether our ’unconscious lives’ are not in fact our real lives. Especially so when it comes to important relationships.
Who doesn’t have that special song that reminds them of that special person or special time?
Some people sure have a way of getting into your head that they seem to be living in there (whether you actually ever see them or not). Not many things in life worse than relationship problems, are there? Thankfully they eventually do hurt less in time.
My guess is that it is in dreams (when/if the everyday residual noise finally quietens down enough) that we usually might get to ever seeing what’s really going on in there all the time. I don’t believe we ever stop dreaming, or ever can.
Having said this it’s hardly surprising that the mood altering/inducing industry is the biggest in the world.
The pursuit of audio nirvana is just one tiny part of it.
Good advice, so so easy to forget. Memories are always important to sustain us as we go forward. It would be heartbreaking to not have enough happy ones. Like yourself, my happiest audio memories go back decades too.
I’m pretty sure no amount of upgrading can change that, but it would be fantastic if my kids ever got into audio the way I did.
@mijostyn, "One day things sound great, the next day lousy. Same system, same room. What changed? Some people might blame it on the recording or maybe a bad tube but mostly it is just the psychological state of the individual."
My first audio dealer (Linn, Naim, Rega etc), who I looked upon with awe once said something very similar. I’ll never forget thinking ’Oh my God, if he with all the high end stuff he has can say that...? Magical times.
@unfairlane, "Our brains are wireless recievers. We need to shut down all the other processes in our heads to get into the listening-mode. Typically 15-20 minutes listening before we are "on", on a good day."
Time for me needed depends upon what kind of day I’ve had but yes I couldn’t agree more. The right song at the right time can turn things around wonderfully.
As GK mentions, unconscious processes are also important.
So much so that I sometimes wonder whether our ’unconscious lives’ are not in fact our real lives. Especially so when it comes to important relationships.
Who doesn’t have that special song that reminds them of that special person or special time?
Some people sure have a way of getting into your head that they seem to be living in there (whether you actually ever see them or not). Not many things in life worse than relationship problems, are there? Thankfully they eventually do hurt less in time.
My guess is that it is in dreams (when/if the everyday residual noise finally quietens down enough) that we usually might get to ever seeing what’s really going on in there all the time. I don’t believe we ever stop dreaming, or ever can.
Having said this it’s hardly surprising that the mood altering/inducing industry is the biggest in the world.
The pursuit of audio nirvana is just one tiny part of it.