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In the Thread: How to train respect audio listening?

Post Subject: How to train respect audio listening?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/22/2013

This is very interesting subject. As many times I went to live concerts with somebody I never remember that a person was listening problem. There were people who underdressed or over-dress, the people who over-used perfume, the damp people who read smart phone all concert. Still, if the performance was good then my listening was never distraction. With audio this is totally different story.

Any minute behavioral things in a person who is listening audio with me do distract me tremendously. If a person is damn in the given music then it also makes me very uncomfortable to listen with him/her. I do not even mention behavior. Anything that people do while they listening bother me and I very much prefer to listen alone as they distract me.

Amy, whom I love dearly and with whom I love to share listening couch, is not very comfortable listening companion, at the same time she is to me the best listening companion for live music. She has zero listening discipline during audio listening and I hate to admit to myself that I sometimes I love to be left alone when I am listening. Today we were listening Die Walkure with Jessye Norman and Christa Ludwig. I believe it was a production from 1990 and it futures the best Die Walkure in modern orchestral playing by estimable MET under Levine. I maxed out the volume and it was a spectacular ride. The Kitty was rolling over the couch like a monkey on a tree, periodically deriving sound, covering the direct radiation or just created some inappropriate near-field reflections. That very much ruined the whole opera experience. She has absolutely no feeling that listening audio is in a way a sacred ceremony. I would never allow myself to talk while she is playing or to grab her by her hand but she feels that it is appropriate to pat my ears while I am listening my music. It is not that I do not like what she does but I also do not like to allocated for my listening the time when she is not home.

For now, I am missing my single listening chair….
The Cat

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