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So why do you expect an unnatural response.? if our hearing is the way it is?

Posted by Elizabeth on August 20, 2012 at 16:39:08

In Reply to: Change your perception (not) posted by Sumflow on August 20, 2012 at 16:22:20:

So I say the system works. Because YES our hearing IS diferent at lower volumes. So naturally our expectations should be for what is NATURAL.
Problem is, our twisted expectations are NOT. The op wants the SAME experience at lower volumes./ i say get used to reality, and what we naturally hear at lower volumes and it can be very rewarding. You say NO, because YOU want the same balance at lower levels as heard at higher. so say I am wrong. I am not 'wrong' I am saying do what the ear actually hears, and acclimate yourself to what nature gave you. instead of expecting the frequency spectrum to accomdate your aural forced training.

For you, perhaps you are saying ONLY the exact dB of the original performance is 'correct"? and any variation is wrong.
Or can we change the volume, and accept that out natural hearing is also different at those levels. without demanding we get the same 'required' audiophile balance (via machines monitoring us?) or should we accept hearing has variations in the way it naturally hears at different levels of loudness. And instead of making the sound meet our twisted wants, just accept our hearing and it's limitations as it naturally is?

One reason to eliminate tone controls was to get rid of errors. Well is not wanting more bass and treble when we naturally hear less of it at lower levels a 'distortion' in the name of audiphilia?

Hope this rambling makes a little sense
Added: like the person with hearing loss. Some ask should they modify their system so they could hear it as if they had perfect hearing? Well they certainly can, but then everyone agrees the system is not reporting accuratly what is on the recorded medium.
Should we, when sitting in the atrium, demand the conductor adjust the music so it sounds like we are seated fifth row center?
What we hear in nature is just what it is. If we are going to change it to meet some arbitrary standard, well yeah we can do that. but is that an audiophile? or a putz answer?
And the argument that the level of the original performance is THE tandard? yes. that it is. but no many can play at the original loudness of a Stadium Rock concert, or a full orchestra.
So is turning it down like a miniature. we are stiil listening as if at full volume. squeezing it sort of?
Or as if we are farther away when at a lower volume than the original?
has that question ever been answered?
If magically squeezed, then I am wrong. But i stil l say then it is totaly unnatural to real sound and is just as much an artificial construct as adjusting it any way you want to please your personal peccadillioes.
If it is like farther away, then i am correct, and our natural hearing does just what is does naturally, at lower volumes. And to 'get used to it' is the corrent response.
I am satisfied i made my case here.

Edits: 08/20/12

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