Don't exactly copy everything they say and do, but just listening is learning.
The saving grace is that designers of factory-installed stereos can know exactly what listening spaces and what speaker and listener positions they are dealing with, things they can't know when designing home systems.
But who exactly is listening to all this advice?
Sitting back on the plinth beside the plate library, I found myself to be exactly that: listening intently to their proposals, offering explanations for my own work and gaining new insights into the business of narrative.
You don't exactly hear it when you listen to the piece because you can't tell who is doing what, but as the piece unfolds, the student keeps getting better and challenges the teacher to kind of keep up by the time they get to the end of it.
So you might have a Spotify subscription while still listening to iHeartRadio, maybe because you like the personality or musical taste of a certain DJ, or because you want to find new artists, or maybe you just can't be bothered to choose exactly what to listen to.
Sure, if you don't care exactly what you listen to, Pandora's personalized algorithmic radio is easy to turn on and not have to mess with.
The Kids ("They're taking her children away" complete with screams of "Mommy!!") is not exactly an easy listen, but it made any other attempt at "rock opera" seem pale.
If you want your life to stay exactly the same, listen to your ego.
Thank you for giving me someone to talk to, and for knowing exactly how to listen.
