An edible before an evening listening session does the ears good!
Critical listening and altered states
Ok, this is not a question about relaxing, but about listening to evaluate how the system (or a piece of gear is sounding).
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
What, in your experience, are the pluses and minuses of altering your state of mind for listening? This can include anything you've used to affect your everyday state of mind, from coffee, beer, scotch, tobacco, to much stronger — and psychoactive, dissociative — additives.
What do you gain by altering your consciousness in terms of what you notice, attend to, linger on, etc?
What causes more details to emerge?
What allows you to stick with a thread or, alternately, make new connections?
Or perhaps you like to keep all those things *out* of your listening; if that's you, please say a bit about why.
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@bolong - that's interesting about those Lion's Mane mushrooms; wasn't familiar with those. There's a 'mushroom church' a few blocks from where I live where you can go and buy 'shrooms as 'sacrament'. That's the only kinda church you'll get ME in! |
Imaging and sound staging have always been critical for me in inducing ASC, the illusion of having real live flesh and blood performers in my room with present setup brings about this state without the need for any ingested substances. Not to say I don't like a bit of bourbon with my listening sessions these days, the Lions Mane sound intriguing.
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Beers,Pot,thc,Mushrooms, will modify your interpretation of music perception , not the objective quality of sound perception. only acoustics can do this. I used acoustics parameters controls by my ears as a tuning instrument to reach ectasy...It is not perfect... It is optimal for me....It cost me nothing... Acoustics is not just mere panels on walls.There is concepts to put at play and devices we can control.
Drugs of any kind are fun but , acoustics is the best drugs with no negative effects... Understanding what we hears is like a blind person using echo-localization, it is freedom from the jail of marketing and a way to become creative... |
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