Maximizing goosebump factor from Hi-Fi systems?
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Good morning Mike, does your wife partake in your hobby as well ? My wife could care less about my system and addiction to music.. Just curious if a much LARGER investment in audio gear and such might make the spousal unit more inclined to indulge in some of it..yourself.
and no, the wife part does not cause goose bumps. OTOH maybe an occasional bruise or two. for sure a very serious eye roll.
honestly there are many paths to goosebumps from HiFi. i read about visitors to certain rooms at Munich mentioning that, particularly the Western Electric Classic Speakers with Silbatone Valve Amplifiers. maybe listening with others causes a collective experience that amps up the goose-bump threshold. i know in my own room there is that extra emotion with visitors all tuned into the same special moments. you can feel the sparks fly in the vibe.
i think we all have own own private goose bump moments when the moons align and barriers get broken down.
maybe we have gear and certain recordings that on a good day where our minds are right we can predictably reach 'goose-bump' levels. when i had the ML3's in my room there was a different sort of discovery of what that might be.
hey, it might be Peter and ddk on some ridgeline in Utah, freezing their asses off, and dreaming a little. what might be could trigger goose bumps.
It’s a soul who programs.. same for designing an analog rig. different tools
hi Mike,
my wife is seldom active in the listening part of my hobby. and this is the down side to my separate listening room in my barn. she does certainly visit me while i'm listening and occasionally will stay and we will listen together. but it's not even every week. maybe twice a month. but we also have our daily time together separate from my listening. when she listens she does like the performance and appreciates what the system does. i know the type of music she prefers. i do get emotional reactions from her to the music.
and she does love music in the house, but there uses her Sonos system with my NAS and Tidal as sources. she always has music in the background.
in my previous home back 1994-2003, my listening room was in our den, which was down the hall from the kitchen/family room. she heard the music, and was a constant presence around my listening. i miss that part. alot. the downside was i could not listen while she slept as the den abutted our bedroom wall. and our sleep habits were different, i'm an early riser, she goes to bed late and is a very light sleeper.
so since i moved to this home with the barn, no more sleep conflicts; i can make all the noise i want and no one can hear me out in my barn. but it's not as easy for her to visit. she does support and understand the value of the hobby to me, and mostly is happy for me that it is satisfying to me. she knows one reason i still am not retired is my asset allocation to the hobby, and is ok with that......mostly. i no longer even try to explain why i needed to buy this or that essential piece of gear.....married 48 years so far.....
Your first sentence is the exact opposite of an emotional reaction and "naturally" connecting with the music. IMHO, you totally miss the point.First and foremost, I'd suggest focusing on growing one's ability to discern / interpret what they hear.
The last thing I would think anybody would wanna' do is get goosebumps over things one ought not get goosebumps over.
As they say, it's all downhill from there.
And how would anyone know what causes another person to get goosebumps.
A 16-year old driving a Buggati Veyron for the first time will get goosebumps every time he stepped on the gas or entered into or coming out of a turn because he's slipping and fishtailing everywhere almost out of control with his life flashing before his eyes repeatedly.
In contrast, the seasoned driver driving a Veyron for the first time gets goosebumps for the tremendous precision, smoothness, handling, acceleration, and controlled power of the Veyron with every acceleration or when entering into or coming out of a turn.
Both examples include emotions but only one of them is mature, educated, and/or experienced.
IMO, you totally missed the point.
I'm guessing only anyone who is mature, educated, and/or experienced would know? Whew!!! You almost had me there.
You've clearly not looked for digital components that offer as many goosebumps as analogue. You need to want to find them though!
Goosebumps come mainly from the music rather than the electronics, but a pair of good sparkling and exciting speakers certainly help.
And sometimes a not so seasoned Mustang driver sits down in his dark basement and gives himself goosebumps imagining driving a Buggati Veyron !A 16-year old driving a Buggati Veyron for the first time will get goosebumps every time he stepped on the gas or entered into or coming out of a turn because he's slipping and fishtailing everywhere almost out of control with his life flashing before his eyes repeatedly.
In contrast, the seasoned driver driving a Veyron for the first time gets goosebumps for the tremendous precision, smoothness, handling, acceleration, and controlled power of the Veyron with every acceleration or when entering into or coming out of a turn.
Both examples include emotions but only one of them is mature, educated, and/or experienced.
IMO, you totally missed the point.
I'm guessing only anyone who is mature, educated, and/or experienced would know? Whew!!! You almost had me there.
Had goosebumps many times listening to Tiesto live in Miami, not sure it was only the music though
A 16-year old driving a Buggati Veyron for the first time will get goosebumps every time he stepped on the gas or entered into or coming out of a turn because he's slipping and fishtailing everywhere almost out of control with his life flashing before his eyes repeatedly.
In contrast, the seasoned driver driving a Veyron for the first time gets goosebumps for the tremendous precision, smoothness, handling, acceleration, and controlled power of the Veyron with every acceleration or when entering into or coming out of a turn.
Both examples include emotions but only one of them is mature, educated, and/or experienced.
IMO, you totally missed the point.
I'm guessing only anyone who is mature, educated, and/or experienced would know? Whew!!! You almost had me there.
Your example is totally bogus and has nothing to do with music listening. Anyone can get goosebumps regardless of the system they are listening to. In case you forgot, it's all about the emotional music connectivity and not the hardware. My sincere apologies for being sooooooooooo immature, uneducated, and unexperienced. You are so typical of the high end audio self righteous and self serving arrogant attitude that destructively pervades our hobby.
Your Buggati reference is comical and says it all.
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Obviously I offended you and that was not my intent. I was merely presenting an analogy of a fine and powerful machine under the control of two diverse perspectives where both experiences resulted in potential goosebumps and emotions. One for the wrong reasons and one for the manufacturer's originally intended right reasons based on my previous post.
You taking it personally is outside my scope. But I apologize for your misinterpeting my analogy.
You mean as opposed to the one who thinks they're driving a Buggati Veyron, when in reality it performs no better than old Mustang but can't tell the difference, right?And sometimes a not so seasoned Mustang driver sits down in his dark basement and gives himself goosebumps imagining driving a Buggati Veyron !
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