Eyeglasses, learning to listen and circuit design

Paul covers three important subjects in one video!

[zulumax]

Paul without a smidge, or dash of ramble, just wouldn't be Paul.
Just gives it a little flavor, or patina if you will. Just do what you do and we enjoy the ride. Thanks for sharing your life experiences and wisdom.

[larryhoffman]

So there's a bit of art to engineering! Knowing which part to change to get the result you're looking for. Fabulous!

[paulrs]

Yes, this was one of your best videos! Informative w/ the JFET switch, and a personel touch

[odizcvw]

What a pleasant way to start my day. With Paul chatting about cooking pasta and audio buffers.

[royli]

Hi Paul, bless you sir! I've been watching your videos for a number of years now & have enjoyed them all. I was watching the news about a late actor and a musician both of whom passed away. Whose work I had grown up with/admired & enjoyed - thankfully both have their work as a legacy available to their fans. I realised the magnitude of your book project - teaching how to listen/make it sound good is an absract art for most folk. Without future-minded individuals such as yourself such knowledge would easily be lost. I wish you the very best in your endeavour!

[larserikpettersen]

This is the reason I’m always listening without eyeglasses. I’m also listening to music in the dark or with closed eyes because then I’m not looking at the speakers to see where the music is coming from

[unclewilbur]

That may be rambling to some, but to me it was just right. Very interesting. And hearing the solution for etched sound was extremely interesting!!!! Tell more stories about designing! 😊

[PanAmStyle]

Paul, your description of the new component missing something - roundness, solidity, or however it’s described is something I describe as not having “beauty as well as truth.” I have a very good solid state amp sitting in its box because it didn’t have the beauty of an amp costing half as much. And yes, the less expensive amp DOES have truth. But it also has beauty. And beauty is truth, too.

[bayard]

I've been on a bit of a thing this year about trying to explain to all the folks who scream snake oil all the time that listening is a learned skill that takes a long time to learn and if you haven't actually done the work to learn it... It's a much more involved and comprehensive skill than people realize. It is a process that involves the whole body, not just the ears. Chefs are not born with the tasting skills needed to be a chef, Sailors are not born with the skills needed to tune or drive a sailboat, same with motorcycle racers and car racers and the list of things is endless. The body is an amazingly sensitive and accurate sensory device that can use considerably more than the 5 primary senses, but you have to learn to listen to it and understand what it is telling you.

[tubefreeeasy]

On this past Friday, I placed two 10” concrete forming tubes beside my nearfield desktop system. It helped create an enclosed soundstage that made the sound even wider than before. I found my bliss.

[tomday]

Thanks for the lesson regarding listening and your journey as a tech nerd. A similar process was involved in my journey with wine. What's good and what's bad and what went wrong in the process if it's off and how to fix it. More importantly, how to repeat the "great" ones. Taste is just another sensory experience that can be trained somewhat. Listening is harder these days, I think, because of the noisy world we live in and its effect on our ability to hear nuanced sounds.

[robertmoi]

Mosfets are awesome. I upgraded my car stereo ten years ago. Back then I didn't know much about hifi equipment's but I went with reputable brand, Sony. I used to wonder why my car stereo sounded great. Cheap low performance speakers still sound great in the car. I had to spend a lot of money and time in my home audio just to surpass it. later this year found out that the my car amp is actually a class AB Mosfet amp from Sony. I like the FET's sound.

[LanceGreidet-bizk]

Paul your entraining I'll say that I try not to miss your videos Thanks

[ericyum]

I don’t play but I love to listen to Jazz. I really enjoyed your vid. It helps me to appreciate the music more

[leaveempty]

After spending a lot of time fixing audio gear it took me a while to get back into listening to music. I had trained myself to listen for clipping, distortion and "through" the music for hum, hiss can crackle pretty much ignoring the actual music.

[pimvanvliet]

I came here for audio advice. Now I want to know how to make that celeriac recipe!
Always fun Paul.

[DalstonVinyl]

I like the glasses anecdote, and along those lines I recently had six molars extracted, and it has improved my listening greatly! My already pretty good system here in London sounds slightly (but clearly noticeably) more detailed, which is particularly true of sung vocals...it's just more resolved now.
Let me make clear, im NOT recommending drastic dental surgery as an upgrade path, but its definitely improved my listening experience. 😂
PS (sorry for the pun!), I can think of at least two plausible explanations for this effect.

[onnonugteren]

Ha!! :-) I thought I was the only one who noticed this! :-) you made my day telling me I am a real observer! Never heard of someone doing this but I really did hear the difference and OF COURSE!! You do put a barriere before your ears and face and thus make your listening surface complete different. Like a cat directing his ears. Of course it makes a difference! 🙂 also hands or your arms behind your ears .. or a wall etc etc. Great I thought I was the only one who discovered this! 🙂

[kenp]

Does the brand of lazyboy matter? Should I put both feet on the floor, or can I sit cross legged? Can I hold a cup of coffee, or should both hands be on the arm rests? What about a glass of Scotch? Can anyone else be in the room? Does all this channge?

[edwardmichaelkenway]

Accurate measurement is not always perfect, it is completely correct. I think this is because the analog signal always has an incalculable part in calculations, and digital was invented for this incalculable part of analog and failed to satisfy many because of the defect in the removed part (This is the reason for my interest in vinyl)