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Originally Posted by grindy
Same here. I have a very short attention span and it's getting worse every year. I can barely read books lately and I don't think I've ever watched a movie without pausing a few times.
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I'm happy to say that I still engage in direct and active listening sessions for albums I am particularly excited about hearing for the first time. I've read repeatedly that listeners rarely sit and devote their full attention to a record anymore. For these special albums, I preload the official bit-perfect FLAC to a portable device, don a pair of circumaurals with a sound signature best-suited to the musical style I'll be enjoying, cover myself in blankets in bed, black out the room, close my eyes, and take in the album in what is effectively an environment of sensory isolation.
It's out of respect to the artist and to achieve optimal experiential enjoyment.
My next step is to incorporate an AudioQuest Dragonfly Red to overcome the shoddy performance of an android phone's internal DAC.