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In Reply to: Re: HANG ON EVERYONE! Lets try again without so much bickering posted by Dan Banquer on May 20, 2005 at 09:48:30:
is probably the last barrier. The mechanism is difficult because we tend to ignore the sensitivity of the human ear from a scientific point of view. Look at the test instrumentation for hearing: they go up to 20Khz but most often the testing rarely goes beyond 10Khz.
I remember a decade ago there was a very brief article in some journal that stated some Japanese researchers could measure neuron brain activity when test tones as high as 100Khz were played, even though the subjects themselves did not respond to the sound.There is that age old arguement also: Can we respond if we have no vocabulary to describe a stimulus? Most of our musical terms come from Italian and are not really common to the average vocabulary. Just look at how we describe sound: warm, smooth, dark, bright. These are descriptions from other senses and carry their own connotations when applied to sound. In addition, very often people will use the same word but have a different meaning attached to the term. All too often, I find audiophiles making semantical arguements.
Sorry for such a disjointed post, but since I work in the field, I often find myself having to coach customers to hear certain aspects of sound. I often have people buying very expensive gear (at their own insistence) when they can not identify what to me are very basic parameters for good sound.
Stu
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