While were making fun of audiophiles

[spidey07]

There's something about lights and music and mood. Enjoying your stereo in broad daylight may be fine, but there is something to be said about turning the lights down low and really listening.

Maybe by depriving all the external stimulation focuses your mind and ears. But it works for me. But there is a reason why live musicians have some colored lights - it works.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: spidey07
There's something about lights and music and mood. Enjoying your stereo in broad daylight may be fine, but there is something to be said about turning the lights down low and really listening.

Maybe by depriving all the external stimulation focuses your mind and ears. But it works for me. But there is a reason why live musicians have some colored lights - it works.

Another one is listening to music while driving, it's a whole new experience. I'll listen to stuff in my car that I won't sit and listen to at home.

 

[montypythizzle]

There is this guy on H-Fi, he is some kind of design engineer or something and he was talking about how you can tune the music to the color of your walls...

 

[biggestmuff]

EDIT: oops. wrong thread.

Yeah, dim lighting works for stimulating the ear to brain connection.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Absolutely. It is a stimulus that your brain is receiving, and as such, other stimuli will heighten/lessen its effect on you. One of the most best audio experiences I've had was strolling home on friday evening after a week of school/work, listening to the 4th gen iPod with the stock earbuds. There's also something to be said about listening to Dark Side of the Moon alone in a dark room with a decent buzz (in my case it was alcohol). Another good one with terrible audio was when I was helping a friend move, I was driving the U-Haul following him in his car, and Hotel California came on the radio. There's something a bit magical about listening to the radio and a certain song comes on that just really fits the mood (Rush's Spirit of Radio and Queen's Radio Ga Ga really touch on my point).

 

[TheDrake]

Of course, why do you think in theaters they turn the lights down/off? And also in some car audio competitions they black out the windows. Another proof that a blind person will be able to appreciate and enjoy music a great deal more than someone who is not.

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: TheDrake
Of course, why do you think in theaters they turn the lights down/off?

Because RP doesn't work very well with ambient light?

 

[iRONic]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TheDrake
Of course, why do you think in theaters they turn the lights down/off?

Because RP doesn't work very well with ambient light?

Zung!

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TheDrake
Of course, why do you think in theaters they turn the lights down/off?

Because RP doesn't work very well with ambient light?

What kind of theatre you go to that uses Rear Projection?

 

[TheDrake]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TheDrake
Of course, why do you think in theaters they turn the lights down/off?

Because RP doesn't work very well with ambient light?

well its FP but yeah thats ONE reason, another reason is so that the focus is on the screen rather than on anything else such as people getting up out of their seats to use the rr and whatnot. You still notice it, but it wouldnt be as bad as if the lights were up/on