Been in there long enough for kitty, too.... ;)
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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I like my K340 so much because being hybrid with a 4,000 Hertz crossover, the two cells work in the mids but the dynamic one from the deep bass higher and the other from the highs to the mids lower...They had an acoustic dual chamber inside then with 5 tuned Helmholtz resonators.The only headphone design as this. Then the medium are so unique and natural... It takes me 6 months of reading and experimenting to understand how they work even reading the patent created by Dr. Gorike their designer and founder of AKG a physicist by formation fascinated by acoustics not an engineer...
Why did i dislike all headphones so much , i tried all types, many dynamics, 2 planars et 2 electrostatic... i dislike them because they sound unnatural generally the mids timbre is unrealistic and artificial... No deep bass and no natural highs...And very important : no out of the head soundfield experience ( the K340 with many classical recording especially gave me that ) The bass and the Highs are very limited on most headphone because a singular cellular membrane of any types work not so well to capture bass resonating in your body and highs celestials sweet as honey and seemingly extended not appearing with a roll off ...( The fact that my hearing is not near my 20 dont change the idea and experience, only the perceived frequencies level where the high peaks and roll off)
A violin played by a not so much great violonist on a not so much great violin yes may sound strident... But some top artist in Vivaldi Bach or Mozert plays so well that hearing their note tonal microdynamis on a very resolving system with a great acoustic, which is what the K340 gave me, i entered heaven... Before the K340 i never even on my speakers (Tannoy) or the others less sophisticated one, i never enjoy violin as much... Often stridence, sibilance, acoustic stress at high volume... I was more a bass head in a way... But with the K340 i cannot be tired of listening the Arte of violin by Locatelli which is almost violins only non stop for hours (3cd). On a bad system in a non controlled room it must be strident and very tiring... On my K340 it is celestial syrup of the most ethereal kind...Like a set of colors distillation at the limit of the visible spectrum flowing and flying ... I own a CD of a Polish version of the 4 seasons of Vivaldi on Tacet, "tube recording only", i cannot be tired of listening it, the violins and especially the solos with the deep bass of the cello create an altered state of consciousness.. the mark of a high end system, the ultimate after having natural timbre, deep bass, spatial localisation of all instruments with their holographic individual tonal volume in space, is the higher frequencies rainbow arc... I never experienced it on speakers because my system was never "high-end" even in my extraordinary well controlled room. But my actual system of choice even if i can use small speakers well embedded acoustically which i modified, my system of choice the only high end one i ever had (quality of gear design) is the K340 driven by the Sansui alpha... The most difficult and the LAST factor to get not only right but very good and celestial is the higher range of frequencies on speakers but especially on headphone... The only headphone i know which is good is the K340... I am not frustrated at all because it will cost me a lot to beat them with speakers...
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Music is already an ASC and cannot be unheard going deep in us... Playing with sound parameters in a room imply an ASC... Do you know the Barabar site in India ? Nobody knows who did it, the precision is impossible to replicate today, and the caves were probably used as an acoustic tool to create ASC... This stunning documentary is one of the best i had seen recently and say a lot : BARABAR, THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF THE FUTUREThis 2 hours is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF6qv1CC5_4&t=3s But if you want a short introduction : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGnA0ZrwEk
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