u/Left_Section1578

So I'll be moving into a new home and upgrading a lot of my things. For the most part I use EPOS Sennheiser GSP 500 headphones while at my desk, along with a Creative Soundblaster X G1 external soundcard for music, and gaming when I was doing that.

I know a lot of you are audio quality lovers, so I've come to ask what systems you guys use to enjoy Lorn to the max.

I'm looking for suggestions for headphone upgrades (no mic needed), and then also a surround sound system for the master bedroom. Budget up to ~750usd.

I really want to be able to enjoy songs like Diamond, Timesink, Yesterday's Pain, L'appel du Vide to the highest degree while in the center of my room, as well as discover new layers and depths to his music that can only be uncovered with better sound quality.

1.675g Syrian Rue, Peganum Harmala. Whole seed boiled for 3x-30m, then reduced to a shotglass, cooled. Ate ~1in raw ginger at the start of the boiling process. Stomach is otherwise empty, had a medium load breakfast ~7 hours ago, no lunch.

DMT today shall be in the form of a cartridge, .680g with ~.25-.30ml PG.

T:0---4:40pm: drank dose of Harmalas Tea. Added ~1tbsp and ~1/4tsp of ceylon cinnamon. Flavors masked alkloid nastiness well.

T:30m: nothing.

T60m: barest hint of body load, I get an extra awareness in the nerves of my teeth on most psyches except DMT.

T90: still a very light bodyload, music is hitting some wonderful feelings. Listening to instrumentals and able to pick out all components and layers of the songs, appreciating them a lot more. Listened with speakers, next round I'll use my nice headphones.

T:120m: still riding the same enjoyment- good mood, uplifted, happy, content, thoroughly enjoying the music. Noticed a slight enhancement to colour vibrancy and textural definition.

About this time started gently hitting a DMT cart of 3:1 ratio. Small hits, staying in the just-above threshold zone. DMT onset was delayed as it should have been, and lasted maybe 1.5x normal duration, telling me I didnt hit full MAO-a inhibition but had some measure of it. No major change to visual archetyping, but also didn't go far enough to explore enhanced visuals really. Got the lovely warm body glow and mild euphoria.

T:150m: about the same.

T200m: winding down slightly, I think. Very gradual come-up, soft plateau, soft taper. Absolutely no hard transitions at all.

T200+ kept winding down. Felt mostly sober except during the peak of it, where even then it was only lightly altering. Some sedative feeling, might have been consequence of just having a relaxed afternoon talking to my lover while listening to music.

By hour 4 I felt about 90% back to baseline with some residual glow. Snacked on some homemade flatbread.

Hour 6 100% sober.

Able to fall asleep normally, didn't notice any extra vividity to dreams as often reported by others.

Overall a very good first experience with rue tea. Flavor was masked well by cinnamon and honey, ginger helped to eliminate nausea. Gentle up, gentle ride, gentle down, no ill after effect. No bad interplay with the mescaline microdosing I've been doing.

Will try again, next time will be a 2g brew. At some point I will do a full-spectrum freebase extraction, as well as converting some to salts so I can both vaporize and consume as desired, and to make Changa.