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In Reply to: RE: For the Audio Note NOS guys - New technology coming from AN. posted by John Elison on July 23, 2014 at 22:29:22:
"I have as much experience as any 66-year old man who has been an audio enthusiast all his life and attended numerous audio shows for the express purpose of listening to the finest sounding and most expensive stereo equipment in the world."
You have just described me also right down to the age.
"after listening to Peter's drivel, I have absolutely no respect for anything else he has to say or anything he has to sell."
I had precisely the opposite reaction. Which surprised the heck out of me since I'm a pretty hard-bitten engineer type who has grown weary of both boutique manufacturers bloating their BOMs to 'justify' insane prices and the crackpot views that many inmates hold regarding the value of measurements. They just don't understand...
BUT I used to work on audio frequency systems with ~100dB dynamic range and ~.001 degree phase sensitivity (but not at the same time). Let me tell you the passives, especially the capacitors, are real PITAs. So I was rather nodding my head as he spoke. And I've worked in RF where we used capacitors with solid silver leads in critical places to keep the Q up. (The assemblers in that area were VERY tidy, the cleaning crew never had to sweep up the ends.)
So how do these experiences relate to home audio? I don't KNOW that they do. But I find it interesting that the very same component attributes that were important in other applications which I do understand pretty well via both theory and measurements seem to also be ones that audiophiles fret about, even though it is impossible...
My view is that inappropriate assumptions are afoot primarily concerning the discernment threshold of human aural perception. I think they are damn low. Illogically low. I don't have data to trot out but I think it all goes back to surviving in the (unurban) jungle. Being able to detect minute differences in impulses and being able to filter out large signals and focus on minutia probably made the difference between getting laid and getting eaten.
Primitive processes are conveyed through emotions rather than newer chunks of the brain so probably the reason we have so much problem "hearing" the things that we feel when listening to music is that we aren't especially well wired for it. Music is a drug that hits the old brain to invoke those primitive emotions. It takes special training and focus to use the modern areas to sort out the why and my understanding is that folks that do DBT's for Harmon are trained to do so. I wonder if that subsequently decreases their enjoyment of music?
Rick
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Follow Ups
- RE: For the Audio Note NOS guys - New technology coming from AN. - rick_m 09:13:39 07/24/14 (2)
- Excellent point about the evolution of peception! (nt) - Crazy Dave 11:00:45 07/24/14 (0)
- To each his own! Obviously! ;-) /nt\ - John Elison 10:01:43 07/24/14 (0)
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