Best way to "experience" prog.

Zoso wrote: I like to lie in bed, sometimes under the influence of various substances, and just close my eyes and listen to the music. Insences are great too. I find that when I listen to music when I'm really high, it becomes a much more visual thing, and I can close my eyes and just let the coolest sh*t come to me.

Unless I'm stoned, I can't stand just sitting around meditating to music.

I like to get up and walk around. I'll put on some Yes or RUSH and walk around my town; I especially love to sit down next to Woodbridge's North Lake and gaze out over the water with spacey music going.



BTW, DTS albums are easy to find online. Go to Mininova.org and have a BitTorrent client ready. Search for terms like 'nrg', 'dts'... or even SACD. After a while you'll figure out specifically what to look for. The files are pretty big (300-700mb), so I hope you have broadband :) Unless you can't find a regular DTS version of an album, don't mess with upmixes. It just means it'll be stereo spread over 4 speakers.

Download (you'll want both) Winamp + 'DTS' plugin AND Foobar2000. If you end up with a '.nrg' file, rename it to '.wav' or '.dts'. If the '.wav' file doesn't play in Winamp (or is nothing but static), rename it to '.dts' and play it in Foobar2000. There should be new media players specifically for DTS format in the next few months.
A 4-speaker or greater system is necessary.

There aren't a LOT of albums in DTS, but Pink Floyd has a few, Yes has some, David Bowie...

The ones I have;
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
              - Dark Side of the Moon
              - The Wall

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Yes - Close to the Edge


I'm currently looking for "Fragile" by Yes and "In Absentia" or "Lightbulb Sun" by Porcupine Tree.

Enjoy! :)


Edited by DeepPhreeze - May 02 2006 at 23:26

^Music is a little better when your listening with someon else, unfortunetly for me I don't know to many people willing to even try out my music, much less listen to it more than once.

DeepPhreeze wrote: Rust wrote: Can you explain what DTS means, please?       DTS is the expanded form of stereo --- think of it as stereo, but with 2 more speakers and a subwoofer (or woofer) added. And instead of just playing the same sounds over 2 speakers (ie, front-left is the same as rear-left, front-right is the same as rear-right) each speaker has its own independent signal stream. In a word, it's surround sound; recording studios in Britain used to mostly be quadrophonic when they recorded (4 magnetic reels). By pulling out the old reels and digitizing them into one single data stripe, we can have the music played back the way it was intended. You'd be amazed the detail you can pick out. It's better than vinyl when it comes to overall sound force, and with about 99.99999% as much fidelity. It goes under the names 'DVD-Audio' and 'Super Audio CD', though it's just like Beta vs VHS; this time around it's going to be DVD-Audio that wins. Pink Floyd in 5.1 is the most amazing thing ever. Imagine On The Run but instead of just hearing the helicoptors go side to side they FLY RIGHT PAST YOU.

I like to lie in bed, sometimes under the influence of various substances, and just close my eyes and listen to the music. Insences are great too. I find that when I listen to music when I'm really high, it becomes a much more visual thing, and I can close my eyes and just let the coolest sh*t come to me.

Walking along side the highway, watching life go by and the beautiful views along the way. And getting a drink at 7-11. Really sets the mood for me.

I don't like a headphone because I feel I'm confined when listening to music. Instead, I have a good audio system with record and CD players as sources to listen to my favorite albums. I think if you want to appreciate prog music, you should listen to it as much as possible.

I prefer headphones. More detail and tighter sound than without.

In the dark, stoned (so as to pick out every tiny little detail), with headphones on. Or on my 5.1 if I have the DTS version.

if you have a pair of decent headphones it is much better that listening with speakers, you hear all the seperation in the music, i love it. its good to listen in the dark and really focus on all of it that you can. i listen to music as much as i can fit in a day, it is my escape from the real world.
(its also good to have your EQ set up, for me thats high lows and highs and low mids)

Good idea, I never thought about incence, I'll have to try it.