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listening in the dark?

Is listening in the dark better?

Scientific research shows that people in the dark can hear significantly better. Senses always ‘fight’ for the brain’s attention. By removing vision, the ears are given more processing power, as it were, to digest sound. As a result you hear more details, you experience a greater sense of space and a greater sense of 3D. A scientific study says: “Closing the eyes affects the style of attending to auditory stimuli by modifying the perceptual relationship with the environment without changing the stimulus itself.”

What do you do?
buconero117
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viridian
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What do I do? Well, I try to avoid "scientific research" telling me what to do. Scientific research once showed that the world was flat and that witches should be burned at the stake.

But I like listening in the dark so that I don't have to catch my big gut out of the corner of my eye, or have my attention drawn to the paintings in my listening room. On the other hand, I sometimes have trouble finding my martini. Then again "scientific research" has found that alcohol dulls the senses, so there you go again.
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ghosthouse
3,718 posts
 
If I could stay awake, I'd listen in the dark and enjoy the glow of tubes. As it is, conscious listening sessions tend to last longer with lights on.
metralla
945 posts
 
What about this gizmo that made a bit of press recently?

http://mymusicmask.com/

Regards,
learsfool
1,206 posts
 
While I do not limit my listening to the dark, it is most certainly true that depriving yourself of one of your five senses heightens the others.
bizango1
276 posts
 
The aquarium between my speakers is too beautiful to not look at while I listen-especially when the rest of the house is dark. Don't bother with comments about it destroying my imaging or S/N ratio-I've had a five foot long aquarium in between my speakers for over 35 years everywhere I've lived and never had a second thought about it. Many of my fish last longer in my living room than hifi components-no fish swapping!
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