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In Reply to: The Real Problem is... posted by BigguyinATL on March 26, 2015 at 14:41:16:
I don't mind that many of us hear changes in the playback when the actual signal doesn't change at all. This is because our minds have to have a certain level of confidence in the playback system in order to have the illusion to be believable. The threshold of that confidence varies - and sometimes wains over time. Heyser described that in his "Audio" articles on the "Catastrophe Effect". The multidimensional manifold of our perception and expectations is constantly changing.
I'm an easy sell, most the time my mind eagerly places me in the event as best it can. And even better after a glass of wine. My wife of 32 years, a musician, to her and my frustration many years ago - is the exact opposite. When listening to the finest stereo (and even my modest systems) with even the finest recordings I could find hears the playback and all the performance - yet her mind can't or doesn't place her in the illusion of a performance.
Interesting - if we play back a movie - surround sound and all, Like the McGurk effect, she will enjoy the artificial reality of the movie - even if it is a non-existent colony on Mars!
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
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