Owning The Correct Audio Components Is A Key To Help Raise Your Consciousness

I’m including my audio pages on this website instead of having them on a separate website as I’ve done. My audio work will soon be found at idealfuturevisioin.com instead of aumacoustics.com. I’ve spent six decades chasing this sound quality I’m now getting, and I’m impressed and satisfied.
This is the best I’ve created outside of live music. I know. I used to make it. However, audio listening using an electronic setup is a first-row affair for me, even though I was on stage, too. Onstage listening is for the performers only, and live music is the best way to compare this presentation as a listener—but from the first row. The first-row presentation is my preference for you and for me.
This change will take some time, but it should be done by early 2025. Sound is fundamental to elevating consciousness to the highest level, and the work I’ve done over the decades is part of this effort. Now, I’m including both with one website name, which will be how I deal with both efforts in the future.
Here Is Why I’m Including This Information On This Website:
First, it makes sense since I’ve been working with audio since I was a young boy and love achieving a high sound quality. However, as I’ve studied consciousness and put together my course material, I realized that listening to high-quality music is essential.
Music has a primal hold on us, reaching the core of being human. This is why I’ve pursued creating audio components and became a professional jazz piano player. No, none of these are my professions, but avocations – YES. I love music, and it will not go away until I die. After that? Who knows.
The phenomenon of chills or goosebumps that come from a piece of music (or from any other aesthetic experience) is called frisson, and it’s been one of the big mysteries of human nature since it was first described.
Individuals who experience frisson are more open to new experiences than others (that’s me and hopefully you as you learn more). Other studies described higher levels of creativity and intellectual curiosity. In other words, appreciating beauty is central to what makes us human, and frisson is just a super-charged version of that appreciation. It occurs when we have a good hold on our intuitive abilities.
Aesthetic chills appear to be a universal emotional experience for everyone, although the functions they serve and the mechanisms that account for them remain to be discovered.
Musical passages that include unexpected harmonies, sudden changes in volume, or the moving entrance of a soloist are prevalent triggers for frisson because they positively violate listeners’ expectations.
Suppose a violin soloist plays a particularly moving passage that builds up to a beautiful high note. In that case, the listener might find this climactic moment emotionally charged and feel a thrill from witnessing the successful execution of such a difficult piece.
Goosebumps are an evolutionary holdover from our early (hairier) ancestors, who kept themselves warm through an endothermic layer of heat they retained immediately beneath the hairs of their skin. Experiencing goosebumps after a rapid temperature change (like being exposed to an unexpectedly cool breeze on a sunny day) temporarily raises and lowers those hairs, resetting this layer of warmth.
Since we invented clothing, humans have had less need for this endothermic layer of heat. But the physiological structure is still in place, and it may have been rewired to produce aesthetic chills as a reaction to emotionally moving stimuli, like great beauty in art.
If a person were more cognitively immersed in a piece of music, then he or she might be more likely to experience frisson due to paying closer attention to the stimuli. I suspected that whether or not someone would become cognitively immersed in a piece of music in the first place would result from his or her personality type.
Results from a personality test showed that the listeners who experienced frisson also scored high for a personality trait called “openness to experience.”
People with this trait have unusually active imaginations, appreciate beauty and nature, seek out new experiences, often reflect deeply on their feelings, and love variety in life. Some aspects of this trait are inherently emotional (loving variety, appreciating beauty), while others are cognitive (imagination, intellectual curiosity).
The cognitive components of openness to experience—such as making mental predictions about how the music will unfold or engaging in musical imagery (a way of processing music that combines listening with daydreaming)—are associated with frisson to a greater degree than the emotional components.
Those who intellectually immerse themselves in music (rather than just letting it flow over them) might experience frisson more often and more intensely than others.
I listen to and play music and have always been interested in audio reproduction through good equipment because of my frisson experience. This is a positive development, and I feel fortunate to have had this at the forefront of my life as I’ve moved through adult living. Men seem to like audio components more than women, so society and what it expects from men and women are also at play here. But no matter how you look, frisson is real, and musical listening is always a way to express it.
You can find a link called MUSIC on this website. This will lead you to a section that holds my adventures. I hope you enjoy it. All of what I share is based on my direct experience.
Aum Acoustics is going through a complete redo, so please be patient.