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Are you sure????? (long)

Hi.

While I would not dispute your acadamic description on how our ears/brain function per the textbooks which is nothing new, I find your statement very very questionable:-

"The 20th time you hear the track it will sound COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
compared t the 1st time."

May I ask you where you derive it from? Extract from a textbook, or
your own personal experience or just your own imagination? Please elaborate & substantiate it.

'Cause I have had never such sonic experience in my decades of music listening, most of it is classicals from my many hundreds of LPs.
In fact, my sonic sense on my music NEVER change a very tiny bit since day one despite I've played them thousands of times.

Just to quote one of many audition experiences, one time I play 10 times my test CD (cut from 24-bit digital master): A sound track of a Chopin piece played by a pianist who was well recognized as a heavy breather. His breaths got so pronounced that the recording engineers had to place the mic behind him in order to reduce the audible effect of his heavy breaths. After continuous ten times of careful audition, I could count 6 breaths recorded on the sound track at the same exact slots on the music piece. NO deviation whatsoever. It is repeatable.

I agree our brain always goes through the process of learning.
This learning process is to add new information on accumulated past information already stored in the brain's memory banks.

Such learning process normally supplements what's already processed & stored. That's why a person with normal aural perception can tell immediately someone on the phone is its acquaintance or a strange caller who calls the first time, basing on the cross reference to the data bank established in the brain. This is really a TOTAL blind test.

If your statement were correct, which I doubt very very much, would you mistake your wife's voice for someone else' voice on the phone on the "20th time" of talking to the caller?

I would leave your pretty agressive comments on DBTs to those seasoned enough to respond

c-J


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