invaderzim
Senior Member
I will admit that by the Audiopheliac's definition I am not really an audiophile because I rarely just sit and listen to music. And that got me wondering if different presentations of music are better for different instances. For a related example when we first got our big HD TV I noticed that I could no longer really work on something and watch TV at the same time. I also rarely use the TV for background noise anymore while puttering around the house. There is just something about that big, super clean image that requires my full attention. The low resolution image on the old regular tube TV worked great as a non-distracting background.
In my garage I currently have a pair of old Heathkit A9-C tube amps and one of Neurochome's a LM3886DR amps that I've been building. If I'm just sitting there listening to the LM3886DR amp I really enjoy listening to it but if I'm working on the car I actually enjoy the old tube amps more.
I hadn't realized this until the other evening and it got me wondering if when my brain is focusing on other tasks it just doesn't like that much detail in the music; similar to it not liking to process a HD video image just out of the corner of my eye.
Or am I the only one that also turns down the radio in the car when I'm concentrating on finding a specific destination? Maybe I'm weird and my brain just can't handle that much input at once.
In my garage I currently have a pair of old Heathkit A9-C tube amps and one of Neurochome's a LM3886DR amps that I've been building. If I'm just sitting there listening to the LM3886DR amp I really enjoy listening to it but if I'm working on the car I actually enjoy the old tube amps more.
I hadn't realized this until the other evening and it got me wondering if when my brain is focusing on other tasks it just doesn't like that much detail in the music; similar to it not liking to process a HD video image just out of the corner of my eye.
Or am I the only one that also turns down the radio in the car when I'm concentrating on finding a specific destination? Maybe I'm weird and my brain just can't handle that much input at once.