What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.


I was flipping through the accessory pages at the Cable Company and came up with this https://www.thecableco.com/hallograph.html You have to be kidding me. Of all the dumb, idiotic, profoundly stupid things I have ever seen. The marketing is even better! Have you seen anything worse! It is up to us to uncover these things for what they are, SCAMS.

Mike
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"Listening to music in a dark room (all lights off) is the same as listening with your eyes closed, no visual distraction."

Seeing the darkness (with eyes open) may be quite distracting at times. Eyes closed may be easier. I am guessing that we are wired to expect darkness with eyes closed, but not with them open.
@lewm , I thought you would like that. That song is on two records. Jazz From Hell, were it is done entirely on a synthesizer. The whole album is done on a Synthesizer. The version you saw is on The Yellow Shark Which I believe is the very last album he supervised before his death.
Frank had a concept he called Conceptual Continuity. Certain themes come up repetitively over the years in reimagined forms. If you really want to understand him. You start from the beginning, Freak Out. I must warn you, if you are genre specific Frank is all over the place from Do Wop to Neo Classical, small groups to the London Philharmonic. 
If there are some genres you do not like Let me know and I will tell you what to skip. Stay away from any albums produced by the Zappa Family Trust for the time being. You can get a discography on Wikipedia. Just as a primer get the video "Roxy." This is Frank in the late 70's. It is very Jazz oriented. If you like tight bands and musical gymnastics with Jazz musicians you will love this. Then Start from the beginning. 

Enjoy,
Mike
@rauliruegas , Raul, not "rejecting", you meant "projecting," like a projector. Rejecting means to throw away or to disavow. 
Just trying to be helpful.
@glupson, You have a valid point! Humans do not like absolute darkness. It makes them uncomfortable, one of the reasons we are so fond of fire.
The only problem with eyes closed is that sometimes I wind up falling asleep:-0
There are no light trails residing in your brain when the lights are turned out on a tour of Mammoth Cave Kentucky..I know ..If your prone to a panic attack this may be too uncomfortable for some. Tom
@theaudiotweak, Very true Tom. But, you are in a strange environment and a very large mysterious one not in your own living room. You don't get scared when you turn the lights out in your bedroom. It is a more primitive instinct more likely to be manifest in children. My favorite instinct fighting situation is being in an MRI scanner. Even if you are not technically claustrophobic you get uncomfortable. We instinctively do not like being in tight places we can't easily get out of. I have many patients I have to tranquilize to get a scan done. I have one that will never have an MRI without being totally knocked out. Why do we all have these instincts? Simple we were better at staying alive and having children. The ones without this instinct were more likely to get killed prematurely. Many of these instinct got started long before Homo Sapiens was around. They were passed down to us. The survival instinct is a good example. 
Now. what about the instinct to buy silly audio tweaks that do nothing but subsidize someone's income.  It is obvious that this instinct does not occur in all humans. Since nowadays survival equals money goes across without this instinct will out survive the ones that have. So, over 1,000,000 years this instinct will extinguish.  Looking back on it people will think that the tweak buyers are permanent. Just an extension of the idea:-)