I believe our group here and maybe even others out there in the real world, may have an interest in utilizing the very best, to enjoy music. We buy the most harmonious equipment we can afford, spend hours adjusting it to the room, search out the best recorded content. We position everything just so, to optimize the experience.
But, have we forgotten something else? I posit . . . What is the very best position to listen ?
This little Golden Thread was prompted by Steve Guttenberg's video ~ " Audiophiles: Do you (ever) listen to music standing up?
My observations which I pose as a coherent group of propositions, I have personally formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world, which I have repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation.
Declaration:
Music "is" best experienced in a seated position, relaxed, composed and attentive to the enveloping sensation produced by periodic stimulus in the organs of hearing.
Standing ~ No, major loss of tweeter, high frequency dispersion.
Dancing about ~ No, induced fatigue in the lower limbs, shortness of breath
Passed out prone on the floor - No, No, NO I can't remember that aria, no memorable music.
I take my point of reference from the way I experience "Live Music" that is my touchstone and how I compare everything else.
When I go to Symphony Hall in Boston, considered to be the best in the United States. It is built with brick, steel and plaster along with wooden floorboards. Its' coffered ceiling and numerous statues create irregularity to balance reflecting and absorbing sound, and its shallow balconies prevent any reverberations from becoming muffled. I "sit " back in the 15th through 30th row in the middle. That is my sweet spot. Not too close, not in the balcony. Where the sound is fully developed as it washes over me. This is, for the wont of a better word ... what I want, and aim for at home.
As for you, what is your sweet spot ?
And I don't mean, like my ex, how she enjoyed the Maytag with an unbalanced load.
In life as in all things, I seek balance.
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MUSIC a therapeutic to heal ~