In Reply to: Re: Please explain "listener's fatigue" posted by Mike Bates on May 11, 2000 at 08:55:47:
Actually, I have the opposite result with alcohol additives---for me it's a little like the warnings on the back of wine bottles about not operating heavy machinery: after a couple of drinks my body relaxes to the point where I'm not automatically running whatever little nervous-
system subroutines that help keep my digital listening sessions tolerable--I feel as if I've lost the edge that keeps the nasties at bay and digital sounds verrry digital. When I return to it a few hours later and the vino is more or less out of my system, things sound their usually moderately ok selves. I had a listening session recently on an old ultra-cheap all-in-one department store rig with a nameless analog setup stuck on top, and, presto, after a couple of glasses the silly thing sounded better, just the way my listening sessions used to work back in the days. So this tells me that a) listening to digital is a physically strenuous act requiring peak reflexes (for me on my current sytem only, no gross universal stements intended) and b) its time to switch to tubes, get back into analog, and eventually upgrade the digital end to something kinder and gentler. Then of course, it will be time to beef up my cellar, which is showing the effects of all this budgeting...
Looking forward to drinking and smiling,
Zapper
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