Do people really just sit or lie about in their front rooms listening to music?

[Berni]

I listen to music while doing other things - running, driving, cooking, etc. The idea of just sitting there just listening to it seems very odd to me.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

To really listen to music, you have to listen to it.

[Ashberto]

It is possible, given sufficient quality, to focus the whole mind on the music which in turn does wonderful things for the mind.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I would have music on all the time as mentioned earlier, though most of the time (despite stereotypical and hugely inaccurate accusations from some, Berni to be specific) I normally tend to be doing ****.

Of a late saturday evening though I will happily lie back, mood lighting, nice fire, music on just contemplating life.

[Berni]

requiring little or no higher brain function. That's when I get the most out of it - particularly classical music.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

to sit still and get all ****y about it.

Besides, you like The Clash, who are objectively terrible. Really listening to them would physically hurt me. Just hearing them is bad enough.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

No higher brain function, indeed.

[Pokster]

[Berni]

This is how you can get from London to Manchester and remember little or nothing of the journey.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Remind me never to get in a car with you :-(

Did I teach you nothing?

[Snin]

mucklovin is lovin your muck mmmmm bit of barry..bit sex pistols at the end for the fast bit..lovely scenes B lovely

[Ashberto]

estimating trajectories and speeds of dozens of vehicles, while watching your instruments and keeping an extra eye out for Auld William.

[Snin]

otherwise bit boring n hippy dippy

[Berni]

Not just registering and processing information and reacting accordingly, but actually thinking.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

One is in one's own movie, the type of movie established by the soundtrack :stayingalive:

[Berni]

allows you to think about other stuff at the same time.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

tbh I can't even listen to music whilst exercising, it messes with my mojo.

Plus, I soon get bored or distracted.

[Snin]

i like to listen to the voices in my head tbh and music in my head..it goes nuts sir c..nuts.. sometimes i need some noise to quieten the demons so ill pop in a petrol station just to get some baseline of normality and humans

[Berni]

Headgear, in other words.

[Snin]

people look slightly..perplexed when they notice

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

average speed achieved, aspirational average speed, gap 'twixt the two, new speed required, potential hazards, that lorry's Hungarian, that's a long way from home, must be 1,500 miles, at an average of 50 that's 30 hours driving so he's at least four days from home, how's the oil temperature, the camber on this bit is ****, potential hazards...

[Ashberto]

:sigh: I miss it so. LSD can get a bit over-spectacular, though I have played my best spontaneous music with it.

[Brentwood]

http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/5/3/22/enhanced-buzz-21487-1336099394-0.jpg

[Snin]

https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/louisbalfourjazzclub-nice.jpg

[Snin]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

you have to stop and listen.

Colours are lovely passed by at speed, they do not make a picture unless you stop to look at it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

the middle distance, waiting for my contact to sit down next to me and leave me a folded newspaper... ;-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

differentiates us from the beasts, who tend to eat, **** and sleep

[IUFG]

Top end headphones will suffice

A good DAC is a must nowadays...

[Berni]

wife for her birthday and what you're going to cook for dinner that night.

The brain is a wonderful, multi-layered beast capable of operating on many levels at once.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

FACT

[Snin]

[IUFG]

[Snin]

[Berni]

Headphones, indeed. :hehe: What is this, 1977?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Too many patronymics. Far too confusing.

[Snin]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Makes the good things in life more vibrant at present.

I will be back to my usual flippant self at some point next week

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I wish you well whatever it is.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Brentwood]

day. I bet these people buy 300 quid HDMI cables as well

[eastgermanautos]

[Ashberto]

It is no surprise that I have become a much harder-headed materialist since I left the days of psychedelics behind.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

That is how I roll.

Tried various others over the years but always end up back there.

Thinking of some of those crazy Bose ones though, the full jobs. Useless in winter all the same when one wears a hat or cap.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

I have been here 2 weeks as my father-in-law has had a stroke. He is now in a home but disabled and demented.

Belgrade itself is dissolving really. The middle classes replaced by nouveau rich gangsters, politicians and anyone on the take generally.

Third world economy rules

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Without the middle class.

[Ashberto]

You don't record and mix a proper recording with f**king headphones. At least you didn't when I was recording. To hear something properly you need proper monitors. With air between it and your ears and a room for natural reverb.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

I really thought each bounce was like being on the moon.

I was around 20 at the time, so it must have been quite a sight

[Ashberto]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Also the place has some culture too

[Ashberto]

[Hillary]

[Brentwood]

a Kindle?

Nothing beats listening to music on 1548 AM

[Snin]

oh yes didnt expect that did you.... porn sounds great on them but it does make it hard to hear when missus wakes up and comes downstairs

[Pat Vegas]

Though I listen to a lot of podcasts now.

The only time I am listening to music at home is if I am decorating or doing something like that. Or analysing a song to learn it.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

so gangsters and politicians reaped the benefits. State taxes anybody with old wealth, like property or the few remaining businesses they do not control.
Huge black market and tax evasion is rife.

Everybody has a scam or two to either make money or avoid paying it.

Average take home is around 280-350 pound per month now and food bills account for 65 per cent of that if you sre careful

No real health service now. The doctors sent my father-in-law home as the care would be better and infections are rife here.
MRSA etc is everywhere

No cleaners and the nurses are all looking to get a year's experience before moving to Germany or Switzerland.

Still, if you want to visit then Ciggies are less than 2 pound and beer too. In fact cans are around 60-80p

They do party like it is 1999 too, basically end of the world vibe to the place.

[Berni]

I've always preferred old money gangsters.

[Brentwood]

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQsWYmXverqgxcNXxNvxw2P_I1v9odsc SRRC4PoA7N933Mo_NSv

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

A kindle contains precisely the same information as a hardback. Each letter is there, and they are 100% identical.

Music, OTOH, when digitised from its natural analogue waveform, is rendered to a certain resolution. MP3s, at the level that most people like to cram thousands of songs onto one tiny device, and perhaps even more so for streaming, are at a very low resolution. It's like the difference between watching the match on HDTV, or on a blurry stream.

So having lost a lots of the original waveform to the digitisation, the music is eventually turned back into a waveform that travels in air by the speaker. The poorer the speaker (and earbuds are poor, especially for bass) the more information is lost.

So information is lost when the content is rendered to a lossy file-format, and further lost when played through speakers that cannot process all the frequencies.

[Pokster]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

It is a sad, sad place

They are not old school Gangsters either. Smugglers and war criminals wearing tracksuits and driving BMWs or Mercs. Cropped hair the lot of them

[Brentwood]

Stream, as i do in HD (as long as there's no buffering or pop up ads)

[Ashberto]

Looks like someone DJing to me.

[Ashberto]

to the shops.

[redgunamo]

the punters couldn't give a stuff about a' that. It's the experience, how it makes you feel, that counts.

[Ashberto]

I'm not disputing that people enjoy it at whichever level they chose, just insisting that there *is* a difference.

Caviar, sausages, and all that.

[redgunamo]