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<!-- #thumb --> <p>When I travel to visit a dealer or audio club I am often asked to evaluate their system the moment I walk into the room. *At that very moment I am still in the travel, rush, rush mode and two things happen: I am disengaged just enough to offer a very pragmatic evaluation of the overall sound, but not engaged enough to give any real quality assessment of the details.</p>
<p>I can only imagine this scenario isn’t much different for any of you walking around from room to room at an audio show; or a reviewer. *How do they do it?</p>
<p>When I am working in one of our two Music Rooms I am, of course, not only engaged but immersed and this can have the opposite two effects: I am engaged to the point where I hear only the details of the presentation, but not disengaged enough to give any real quality assessment of the overall sound. *I’ve managed to miss a channel swap when so immersed, which is anything but nuanced.</p>
<p>In the first scenario I miss nuances and in the second I miss the big issues.</p>
<p>The only cure for this conundrum for me is to put on an entire CD I haven’t heard in a long, long time and sit quietly with my eyes closed and listen. *Having no expectations seems to do the trick of helping me hear both the nuanced details and the overall presentation.</p>
<p>Of course if I do this around 2 in the afternoon, I also tend to nap off.</p>
<p>Which isn’t all the unpleasant in the middle of the day.</p>
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<p>I can only imagine this scenario isn’t much different for any of you walking around from room to room at an audio show; or a reviewer. *How do they do it?</p>
<p>When I am working in one of our two Music Rooms I am, of course, not only engaged but immersed and this can have the opposite two effects: I am engaged to the point where I hear only the details of the presentation, but not disengaged enough to give any real quality assessment of the overall sound. *I’ve managed to miss a channel swap when so immersed, which is anything but nuanced.</p>
<p>In the first scenario I miss nuances and in the second I miss the big issues.</p>
<p>The only cure for this conundrum for me is to put on an entire CD I haven’t heard in a long, long time and sit quietly with my eyes closed and listen. *Having no expectations seems to do the trick of helping me hear both the nuanced details and the overall presentation.</p>
<p>Of course if I do this around 2 in the afternoon, I also tend to nap off.</p>
<p>Which isn’t all the unpleasant in the middle of the day.</p>
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