Barometric pressure, temperature, moon phase?


I’m off work tomorrow, made sausage and peppers for dinner, and now I’m enjoying a Sazerac on a beautiful summer evening, listening to Joni Mitchell.  All is right with the world, at least at my house.  But...  the stereo sounds ever so slightly, not quite there.  It did the other day, but tonight, it’s missing some tiny bit of something.  Has this ever been experienced by any of you out there?  One day magnificent, another day, just ever so slightly not quite as good.  Atmospheric conditions?  Mood? Magnets?  Thoughts?
dprincipato

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I was an analyst for the ISEE (International Sun-Earth Explorer) -C scientific satellite 🛰 that was station kept at the Lagrange point a million miles away from Earth where it collected high energy physics data. At the end of its mission ISEE-C was directed into a slingshot maneuver around the sun, to gather momentum, a maneuver duplicated in the movie The Martian. From there ISEE-C was directed to rendezvous with a comet ☄️- Comet Giacobini–Zinner - that happened to be in the neighborhood. That maneuver was also duplicated in The Martian when the crew rescued Matt Damon. I also was a senior mathematician at NASA analyzing radar tracking data. I also won the paper airplane distance contest at Lockheed Martin.
Ironically, perhaps, Einstein was wrong about black holes and quantum mechanics, believing they were not real, two things he would have been unable to observe 👀 with his senses.
Einstein was a bit of an old fogey. He would have made a very bad audiophile. You have to learn to trust your senses! There are a great number of audiophiles by my reckoning who don’t really know what they are hearing or where their sound stacks up in the overall scale of things. Everything is relative.
Empirical observations - i.e, perceptions - are a cornerstone of the scientific method. Get with the program. Deprogrammers are standing by. We perceive with our senses. I perceive the web you weave.
The trend is not (rpt not) your friend as warmer temps produce more rain, more low pressure systems, more wind, more wave action on the shore, more flooding - none of which are good for the sound. Not to mention your chances of getting eaten by a shark go way up. Beach forecast - partly sunny, scattered sharks in the afternoon. 🦈
Perception IS reality. Our sensory perceptions are precisely how we observe reality. The word perception can sometimes be used as a psychological term, but it’s actually not. It’s the same thing as hearing. There’s no difference.

Be it sight, sound, the smell, the touch.
There's something,
Inside that we need so much,
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,Or the strength of an arquebus deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers, to be covered, and then to burst up,
through tarmack, to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things in our memories hoard,
And to use them,
To help us,
To find...
The sound is influenced by external physical factors such as weather 🌧 barometric pressure and sunspot activity 🌞, radio frequency activity, vibration, etc. that affect the power grid and electronic equipment, cables and house wiring. The brain and perception of sound, on the other hand, are influenced by any number of (mostly undocumented) external factors, many of which are subconsciously received or interacted with. In that respect the brain acts much like a radio transceiver. As the little mice in the movie Babe 🐷 sing, That’s the way things are! 🐭 🐭 🐭