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Enjoying Music As A Happy Escape
The more you listen, the better the experience.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
Of all the reasons I've heard for buying a good audio system, this one seems the most honest. The world, it seems, is falling apart. War, famine, political turmoil, an unpredictable climate, fear of crime... all fuelled by an out-of-control social media and our never-ending desire to doom-scroll through it. Audio is the great escape from that all-pervading sense of
dread. A friend, not in the audio business, has a small but relatively nice little audio system. And he has one rule when playing it; phones off. Really
'off', not 'silent'. That means no Shazaming tracks - if you want to know what it is, you ask. That means no sudden wiki-expert knowledge of a band. And it means no loss of focus mid-way through the track as you are drawn to
'InstaGoogleTweetFace.' This resonates with the 'no phones' request made in Classic Album Sundays sessions, where you listen to an entire album in one sitting. Phones are banned there for the same
reason. It's strange just how far we've come that the simple demand to turn your phone off is met with looks of sheer horror.
---> Enjoying Music As A Happy Escape.
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