I got my first kilobuck headphones with Focal Clears. Love them. Excellent.

BUT

I am finding it hard to actually listen to the music. What I find myself doing is bouncing my focus around listening to individual pieces and going “wow I can pick this out when I couldn’t before!” However, this is both exhausting and stops me hearing my music at all.

It feels kind of like when you go to IMAX the first few times and your eyes are just constantly bouncing around until you realize the way to do it is just relax your eyes into the middle and stop worrying about the periphery. However, I just can’t seem to figure out how to relax into my music.

Does anyone have any advice?

  • IMKGI@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    sounds a lot like ADHD symptoms to me, also have it, just live with it, sometimes i don’t even go through a whole song without getting distracted and end up doing something else, don’t try to let it bother you and just do what your brain thinks it wants to do

  • CranberrySchnapps@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Spend a lot of time with them to help the novelty of the new experience wear off.

    I’d suggest finding a comfortable position where you can rest & close your eyes… a lounge chair or just lay on your bed. Helps to have something to block out light too like a washcloth or folded up shirt. Then just relax and experience the music. Keep a volume knob within reach in case a track comes across as too loud or soft. But, the key is just relax. Don’t try to pick apart the track or single out an instrument… just relax.

    It sounds ridiculous, but this is genuinely a skill that we’ve started to lose to our phones. So, trying it may be frustrating at first.

  • meato1@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Find something else to focus on while listening like a simple game without audio

  • Corgerus@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Over time this will bother you less and less. At first when I got my first good headphones (Philips SHP9600) I was like “woah, space!” and “woah, instrument separation” for about a month. You still hear this but your brain won’t be distracted as much as you get used to it. I’d say do your best to enjoy music with your new headphones, it will be counterintuitive to downgrade over something like this but if it does come to that I can’t blame you.

  • AdonaelWintersmith@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’ll adjust over time. If you’re not doing anything else then the easiest way would be to daydream/procrastinate

  • kenjikodai@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It becomes normal, give yourself the opportunity to do that first and after a while you’ll start to enjoy the songs again even more. For now your brain is crazy happy cause it goes “new sounds on song you loved before” love it more now.