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In Reply to: Re: Message to Commuteman from Soundminded posted by CUlater on August 30, 2004 at 14:20:43:
I don't think we have this figured out yet.It really surprises me that it's possible to listen through an amazingly imperfect transducer (your speakers) to hear v. subtle system changes.
Assuming for a moment that SOME of the sonic changes audiophiles report when they change cables, power supplies, amplifiers, CDPs, etc. are real (as opposed to auto-suggestion), then it suggests to me that the way we respond to different forms of distortion is different. The brain is processing them differently.
For example, given that most loudspeakers show THD numbers in the several percent range, how can we hear the difference between amplifiers with two orders of magnitude less distortion? Obviously, we are not simply responding to the raw THD numbers, but reacting to some artifact of the amplifiers' performance.
Peter
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- That's the amazing thing about the brain - Commuteman 16:27:54 08/30/04 (0)
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