A free tweak revisited

I am opposite, with my eyes open and the lights on my field of hearing is way better defined. 

I am with you @baylinor.

I used to come home wasted from the bar or club many times a week and put headphones on, close my eyes, and experience the same thing. Then I’d wake up in the same position at 6am and have to get ready for work. 

I have dimmers everywhere in my house, especially in my main listening room (the living room I suppose). No issues from dimmer related hum as I use great cables and have always had good hum busting power supplies and good AC conditioning (currently a Bryston BIT 15). It's absolutely a fact that dimming or eliminating light (I like the theatrical effect of interesting lighting....paintings are lit, good spots here and there) makes other senses more sensitive. I can't stand overly "hot" lights in other people's houses, restaurants, or anywhere...except my motorcycle headlight.

My stereo is my living room. I work nights and come home to a quiet, pitch black house and listen to music in the dark or with a little mood lighting. Every session is magical in it's own way and listening any other way for me is anticlimactic. Sometimes I will fire the system up during the day for others, but my listening is always in the dark eyes closed with the goosebumps firing on all cylinders.

Lights down low and eyes closed is the only way I listen. MUCH better !