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In the Thread: Think how a playback comes to your life....
Post Subject: Resonating cavitiesPosted by N-set on: 10/25/2021
Thank you very much Romy for sharing these beautiful thoughts! Resonates pretty much with my own experience. I've observed already quite some time ago that the bigger the tension, effort, in a sense of hard working through, and even anger while building/acquiring/setting up an audio element, the more unstable the results become. In many cases the tension or anger resulted not so much in a bad sound but altogether in some unexpected physical failures - something broke, started making noises etc etc, generating even more negative feelings. Then it costs me some additional, sometimes very very significant, effort, both physical (sth. has to be re-manufactured, replaced, corrected etc etc) and more importantly emotional, to "calm the things down" and try to release the tensions. Last example - I was buying some stupid TT mat from a vintage audio dealer in Hong Kong who turned out to be a complete jerk and hayseed, there was a lot of anger during the transaction. Correlated with that or not, the mat came with a load of difficult physical problems, which when finally ameliorated resulted in sound that was on one side very attractive but had that unpleasant something (HF problem but that is irrelevant what it was), drawing the attention and poisoning the fun. It took me another round of audio alchemy to finally make it sound very good but still not as outstanding as I have anticipated. On the other hand things that came free of tensions (doesn't mean without hard work or cash though), with love, in a way gently and tentatively, have had more chance to make an spectacular impression. Like some of the listening thoughts or equipment that you share with sort of unconditional love here and I have adopted for myself. This holistic aspect is also very interesting and I second experiencing it -- a solution that comes with love indeed tends to make more things work, also outside the audio, than just the narrow problem it was supposed to address. All of a sudden life becomes better and happier in different, unexpected areas.
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