Critical listening and altered states

"Critical listening" as suggested by the OP  as i understood it, can be related to our evaluation of the system/room sound or can be put aside by the use of beer and pot to simply enjoy music...

This critical  passive listening can interfer and be an impediment to our enjoyment of music indeed...

But there is also an active listening, using acoustics concepts and parameters, which help us to reach musical ecstasy (with beer or without beer).

I dont need pot or beer to forget the limitations of my low cost system. It work optimally and i enjoy it fully as the result of my creative  acoustics experiments...

Time to time i had used THC to increase my subjective experience of music, but this had no relation to my system sound. I used it 2 or 3 times a year listening Bach, Liszt,Bruckner and Philip Glass opera. the last time.

@mahgister ....sounds like my ’reality’, whatever it is...not much on candles ’n such.....*G*

Buy a salt lamp for the color orange,it increase our perception of music by associating a light climax between day and light and make music "colors"  best seen this way for me..  it is perhaps only self conditioning hypnosis...

Also i observed an effect on sound when near my gear but it is also perhaps only an aspect of my "tin foil hat" personality..

"There’s life in that old post yet..." 👍😎🎶

So funny! LOL! And thanks for keeping it short and to a single post! Brevity is the soul of wit and wisdom, avsjerry!

@asvjerry , they used to call me Lemmon Head.  

@hilde45 ....and when have I been brief about Anything? *LOL*

...that occurs only on the dark side of the sun..... :)

(That being a decent 'sort of..." )

Off to pu Chinese....prep'ing for the NWO....*ironic G*