Does music sound better with the lights off?

[Deleted member 10021]

 

[teddybear]

From personal experience I’d say yes but for me it really needs to be pretty dark so I can’t see the speakers and ideally not much else either. I’ve been listening in the dark since about 1987.

The wife thinks I am mad!

 

[Wiimer]

I haven't watched this video, but when I turn on the washbasin light in my house, I can hear noise from the LED fluorescent light. Cicadas must be living there.

 

[Burnside]

Or you’re playing Buddy Holly

 

[Zap Rekowski]

...at my workplace I have an LED desk lamp with a switching power supply in the base. When I switch it on, the participants in Teams sound like Robocop.

 

[Deleted member 10021]

After extensive research and testing today I’ve finally awaken with my results. It was neither darkness nor DACs or expensive cables but it was the hard seltzers that made the music sound MUCH better

 

[Deleted member 10021]

Or you’re playing Buddy Holly

 

[Valentino]

I prefer to listen with a view.

 

[Deleted member 20976]

I prefer to listen with a view.

Ok but you have a view.

 

[Wiimer]

Or you’re playing Buddy Holly

Yeah, it's no longer a fluorescent light, it's a WiiM wake-up light

 

[Anynameyouwish]

I've always been a fan of listening to music in the dark if possible. When I say dark, there are lots of tiny LED's on various bits of equipment that make it feel like you're at a live event, so not totally dark.

 

[rccarguy]

Or even better if you switch the lights off, put a bag over your head and think of England.

 

[EddNog]

I don't believe the sound quality changes at all, but I definitely find that my ability to hear/listen improves quite a bit when I close my eyes and/or shut the lights out.

-Ed

 

[QuarryHunslet]

I don't know if music sounds better with the lights off, but it does help me to go to sleep fairly quickly.

 

[Anynameyouwish]

Or even better if you switch the lights off, put a bag over your head and think of England.

Please make sure it has breathing holes in it before you do so.

 

[Anynameyouwish]

I don't believe the sound quality changes at all, but I definitely find that my ability to hear/listen improves quite a bit when I close my eyes and/or shut the lights out.

-Ed

I do believe you are right Ed

 

[Claudius2k]

Only if you collected music in the 70s.