Hey Gerard,
As long as we both are not the only ones experiencing it like this, I guess it is a not before discovered phenomenon. It should be in the league of "getting into the music" (which everybody understands) but more vague to understand when you never had the experience.
Btw, it is not something I created explicitly ... the only thing I did was making something more 1:1 again (hahaha, that helps for explanations).
Now how to call it ? the level of ... what ? How to describe it to those who never experienced it ...
Clarity sure is not it. I know of a "super clarity" system that just implies for the opposite : uneasyness. Shut off please !
All the technical properties it has (like clarity is one of them) do not decribe this total feeling. Similair to the (unknown !) properties that would describe/create "getting into the music".
You, I think, could say that it has a degree of "seeing the players". At least that is a feeling that comes over me at listening to horns, violins and voices. This by itself seems to be created by a means of "tightness" (hard to describe for me in english) like a super-stable voice. You can feel that things match up in air ... phase related. A bit similiar to a two-wat loudspeaker system where the bass and the mid/high can match or not. Coherent.
But this again all doesn't describe the sensation. It's still properties only (which not necessarily give the sensation, I'm sure).
"Sensation" itself might be in the area ...
But this may be relative to "less -" or "no sensation". Mind you, here too -similar to getting into the music- it looks like there's no gradation. So, although I can't be sure, it's there or it's not.
Spooky ...Presentness. Yeah, somehow you can describe it like this, with the "not being present" as the positive side. But, this doesn't fit the directness everything expresses. So it's confusing.
That "presentness" is inconsistent with itself (as described) is an interesting matter ...
Gerard, you said the room is separated from the music now. This one didn't occur to me, but I think you are right. How ? what actually happens then ?
Maybe this "room separation level" is something to work with. But then I'd first have to listen and pay explicitly attention to that phenomenon.
Possibly this is not a separation from the room, but a separation from everything. I mean, it already occurred to me (and I really wondered) why I was closely listening to the music quality itself, french fries boiling in oil making a havy noise right behind me, the cooking hood at full power ditto ... and I found myself rathert explicitly thinking "I don't care !". Normally I wouldn't even start to sit down and listen seriously. So ...
... Concentration level. Ah, that seems a good one ! And mind you, it already exists in our world of audio. Maybe it's not very well defined and spoken of, but I think we all know about *or* your attention is with the music *or* you find yourself thinking of something else while you should have payed attention to such and so, and now the moment has passed.
Interestingly enough it -then- is this same concentration level that allows you to NOT pay attention to the music. To me this is almost more strange than being able to concentrate on the music. Like I told about it in the previous post ... typing stuff like this and during such mind setting there is just *no way* I heard music. Room separation, subject separation, concentration separation.
Officially it wouldn't help, but let me repeat at this stage that I told about CD Playback always having been wrong as I see it. So now I do it right. Just right, that's all.
Might this be similar now to the natural realism of you being in a room with 30 people, two people opposite of you with a table in between and you talking to those people, while right behind you -closer than the people you talk to- other people are talking, and you are not disturbed by that at all ? you are able to concentrate on the people you talk to. The others talk louder, but actually you don't hear them. You hear the people you talk to.
Now compare the same situation, but music plays. I think we all know, it doesn't need to be loud at all to disturb. Why ? is this because it is so much unnatural that our brain can't get it out of the way ?
Note that I don't have the experience yet of playing music at this birthday party, but that I feel that it won't harm anymore.
If I'm on the right track, is "naturalness" a property ? Ok, it could (or should !) but as an ICTer I say this is an inheritent and composed property of many other properties. So, useless. Naturalness
could be way to describe the sensation though, but on the other hand ... what defines naturalness then. Me ? nope. We rather need that property that
defines naturallness. Like "concentration level" is prone to it (I think).
There might be other properties that allow for more easy comparison (which "concentration level" does not, like "getting into the music" does not) and this seems to be an explicitly added warmth to instruments;
If you listen closely, you can sense that harmonics are (re)created in air. I talked about this (elsewhere) maybe one year ago already, and it occurred at certain pre-Engine3 versions. What I mean is, that harmonics of an instrument need not to be in the recorded data, in order to let the base tone characteristics recreate that harmonics anyway. I'm not sure whether it is *this* that creates the sound as of now ...
What I hear in really everything is a perfect added sound that came from under - upwards (in dutch : van onder uit). Like base tones were lacking, and *those* are added now. Can this be ? hardly. It more looks like the proof that
undertones actually do exist and that *those* are able to be profound now (similar to just everything is more profound). Whether they are in the recorded data or are recreated in air ... I don't know at this time.
Ok, I stop here for now, because I tend to change my own subject.
Concentration level.
