Listening deeply
Oct 12, 2021
3 minutes
BY JASON VICTOR SERINUS
GOOD AND BAD, I DEFINE THESE TERMS QUITE CLEAR…
—BOB DYLAN
Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.
—Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations
The one activity that distinguishes audiophiles from other music lovers is our practice of sitting in solitude and listening closely to music reproduced on a finely tuned playback system.
That is not to suggest that there’s anything wrong with playing music in the background. But what’s unique about us audiophiles is the seriousness of intent with which some of us
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