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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.

hilde45
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mahgister
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@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..

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hilde45 OP
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"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!

immatthewj
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@asvjerry , they used to call me Lemmon Head.  

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asvjerry
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@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*

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hilde45 OP
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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...

I'm very glad for you. If it works optimally and you enjoy it fully then I don't suppose it really has any limitations. That's wonderful! And low cost!

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