Anyone else like to Listen in the Dark?

From a neurological point of view, there is a very good reason for this: the brain's visual centers have many orders of magnitude more cortex dedicated to them than do the aural centers. Closing your eyes (or listening in the dark) shuts down an enormous amount of neural processing, allowing your brain to spend a lot higher percentage of its energy on listening. Two other effects I've noticed from this phenomenon:
1) Music videos aren't about the music at all; they're about the video.
2) A lot of symphony-goers have never tried shutting their eyes during a performance, and when you do, they automatically assume you are sleeping. I close my eyes quite often, but never to sleep. You would be amazed how many people will ask you how your nap was.

I use only a lava lamp. And I find that it's not just the dark but also the night. Music is better late.

Listening in the dark sometimes is a great meditation of sorts!! Especially when I pull the cover off the SFS 80 and watch those kt90's glow and the glow from the ARC and
Clearaudio phono... It is a light show...
Lovely!!
Enjoy,
Joe

Wow!

I thought I might have been alone on this one! I guess not...Listening in the Dark is simply wonderful. Late at night all is quiet and the power is cleaner. The mind gets to Focus on and enjoy one thing...The music! There is nothing quite like it.

That's easy. Lights off at night, eyes closed during the day. The hard part is to not get too relaxed and fall asleep!

Albertporter, for a real treat give the Springbank 25 a try. Sensational by most anyone's standards.

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