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🤯🎧🎼🎶🥯👌

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A couple of weeks ago, at the end of 2020 (after many months of working from home), I had been mostly listening to music during the day to wash out the many noises annoying city residents make these days. One day, I realized that this is not helping because even the best focus music will be quite well penetrated by a garbage truck or the neighbor's car alarm when he uses its trunk regularly as storage throughout the day. So I've realized the only way to completely ignore these and essentially stop the interruptions was to focus even more. Thus I've just stopped listening to anything altogether, leading to a much more focused and deeper flow during the workday.

Nowadays, I'm starting my old Akai amplifier, mostly on Sunday evenings like this one, to actually _listen_ to music and doing nothing else. I still enjoy a duo of Jamo monitor-like 2-way speakers (Cornet 145) and a custom active subwoofer - a personal toy project from my student days (...and a relic from the eye-blurring bass-rich parties back in the days), much more powerful than necessary for the monitors but profoundly contributing to slower and deeper pieces and lower volumes.

I also occasionally enjoy KRK KNS-8400, probably the best passive noise-canceling headphones I've ever had. They are really nice, but listening with a bit of a vibe in your core is still priceless.

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