mike1127
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I typing with a large does of sleep medicine in my system, waiting for it to fully kick is so I can go backl to sleep. Pardon any bizaaree spelling or statements.
A way of saying it--Why are changes in wire and cables so evident to some, while there are only a few reports of blind tests passed. I have an idea, not totoally new, but maybe a new way to say it. When doing sighted listening, I feel like my impression of a cable arises gradually, bubbles up from unconsciousness. It's then easy to "go with that impression." If the impression wells up, "Deep tight bas" then it's easier for me to get the idea the bass is deep and tight, and I enter a listening mode callled "ennoy the deep tight bass."
We know from blind experiments that people can be tricked by being told they have new cables, they were installed today, want to hear them? The person loves his new cables and has very good things to say. Then he finds out no cable chage was made. So a person's listening "mode" which includes the idea of expectatons can stronly affect ther experience.
Listenin modes can arrive from different places. In the above example, your friend provides you one by cheating. I'm interested in those modes which seem to emege from a deep perception. Something your not quite aware where it came from.
Do you ever listen with NO expectation. Not often. However, consider that a deep impression arises as a propertiy of the sound (tight bass) and creates a conscious mode of listening (wow listen to that tight bass). The listener then uses that mode in most all listening with this system (love that bass!). It seems to me that this phemonma reconciles both truths: the fragile, uncontrolled aspect of our listening strategies, and the real impressions (as a result of real sound) at a deep level.
When you onsious strategy is aligned with this deep percetion, you relax into the experience. When they are not aligned, eventually yuou will feel uncfomrtable, listen lsss offten, and start looking for something else.
A way of saying it--Why are changes in wire and cables so evident to some, while there are only a few reports of blind tests passed. I have an idea, not totoally new, but maybe a new way to say it. When doing sighted listening, I feel like my impression of a cable arises gradually, bubbles up from unconsciousness. It's then easy to "go with that impression." If the impression wells up, "Deep tight bas" then it's easier for me to get the idea the bass is deep and tight, and I enter a listening mode callled "ennoy the deep tight bass."
We know from blind experiments that people can be tricked by being told they have new cables, they were installed today, want to hear them? The person loves his new cables and has very good things to say. Then he finds out no cable chage was made. So a person's listening "mode" which includes the idea of expectatons can stronly affect ther experience.
Listenin modes can arrive from different places. In the above example, your friend provides you one by cheating. I'm interested in those modes which seem to emege from a deep perception. Something your not quite aware where it came from.
Do you ever listen with NO expectation. Not often. However, consider that a deep impression arises as a propertiy of the sound (tight bass) and creates a conscious mode of listening (wow listen to that tight bass). The listener then uses that mode in most all listening with this system (love that bass!). It seems to me that this phemonma reconciles both truths: the fragile, uncontrolled aspect of our listening strategies, and the real impressions (as a result of real sound) at a deep level.
When you onsious strategy is aligned with this deep percetion, you relax into the experience. When they are not aligned, eventually yuou will feel uncfomrtable, listen lsss offten, and start looking for something else.
