Anyone else like to Listen in the Dark?

That's easy. Lights off at night, eyes closed during the day. The hard part is to not get too relaxed and fall asleep!

Albertporter, for a real treat give the Springbank 25 a try. Sensational by most anyone's standards.

"Scotch is like women; it's better when they're of legal drinking age."

Is there another way to listen to one's rig?

This is funny. I have, for years, listened in the dark and my 14 yo son has become a more frequent companion in doing so. Awhile back he started to say something and then stopped. I asked what he was going to say and he said, "Oh never mind it was stupid". I pressed him and he said, "I know this is dumb, but the music seems to sound better in the dark!"

I might speculate that the listeners of the dark have systems that image incredibly well. I normally leave the lights on dim but if I have my Green Mountain Diamantes set up, I really get lost in the music when the room is dark. When you can't easily see the room boundaries the imaging is more believable, very enjoyable.

I haven't read the other posts so if I repeat, sorry.
Psychoacoustics is just that, the way the brain is interpreting sounds. The more diverse the input as to stimuli, I imagine the less efficient the brain is at interpreting the aural input. So, remove as much extraneous input as possible and our wonderful gray matter seems to perk right up to aural cues. A bourbon in hand (legal stimulant [depressant] of course) only heightens one's sensitivity to nuance, shape, tone, position, etc.
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