Since I got my SqueezeBoxes, I've been listening to more music more of the time, and I've noticed something that concerns me. If I put on a playlist of music and listen to it for any length of time, I find that the songs begin to affect my mood. I wonder if the team at Slim Devices are aware that the sound being produced by their products can have an effect on a person's mental state? If I listen to Van Morrison's "Stranded" for example, it affects me in a certain way, but if it's followed by Crosby, Stills and Nash doing "Johnny's Garden" that can have a different effect on my emotional state. Then, when I hear Stephen Stills say "Gonna do a country blues" in the introduction to "Black Queen" I feel something entirely different from when I hear Bonnie Raitt or Mozart or Maynard Ferguson. I think the Slim Devices engineers owe it to the customers who purchase their products to at least document the fact that different sounds coming out of their products can have different effects on the listener's moods and mental states. How is the consumer to know that what's coming out of the SqueezeBox devices they bought might affect them in different ways, if it isn't documented openly and made clear? Someone has to point these things out to Slim Devices. It might be a big corporation conspiracy since the Logitech buyout, an attempt to affect the unsuspecting listening public. But if I put on Warren Zevon's version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" it certainly doesn't sound like the Eric Clapton version. Is this a question of FLAC vs. MP3? Can Slim Devices prove this isn't damaging my brain?
For those who want to know more, I can cite some Internet references: see 'this link' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire), or 'here' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke), or 'here' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor), or even 'this link' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder) for example. People need to be aware of what SqueezeBoxes can do to them, pumping sounds into their consciousness so many hours each day. Why, there have even been times when I was feeling a little down, and putting on music on my SqueezeBoxes made me forget why I was feeling that way, and made me feel better! Surely this sort of emotional manipulation isn't what people signed up for when they bought Slim Devices. So come clean, Slim. What up with that? -- Dogberry2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58771 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
