What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.

Awesome - pick your dream components and then have yourself hypnotized to believe your rig is actually your dream rig whenever you listen.
The only problem with this group would be the need for constantly repeating the hypnosis to account for tweaks and system upgrades.

No. With me a recording was made of the original hypnotic event so it could be played back as reinforce ment as needed ..I did so for 3 weeks. Tom

"If your system does not sound better with your eyes closed you have work to do."
mijostyn,
I truly have empathy for your past coworkers and friends. You are the archetypal  inflexible know-it-all. Just because science favors lights-out doesn't mean others can't process musical input just as effectively with the lights on.  

Narrow mind are unable to understand subtleness of phenomena...

Music is easy to focus on eyes closed for all people, but opening eyes  modify the relation we entertain with imaging....I said modify not necessarily improve...

Then listening eyes opened can make sense ....To accentuate not the perception of timbre (eyes closed is better) but for modifying our relation with imaging, in particular our relation between sound and our body location ....

It is not science, i will let narrow mind think they speak for science itself, it is only my experience in my listenings experiments....

+1 mahgister.