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RE: I appreciate your comments...

>I have been following the uproar and subsequent search to root out the
>heretics and bring back the status quo over at AVS. I'm posting here
>because if I posted there I'd be stoned as well :)

For decades, so-called "objectivists" have demanded that audiophiles
perform double-blind ABX tests to "prove" that they hear what they claim to
hear. Now that some people have done that and have heard the difference
between hi-rez files and CD-quality versions of the same to a statistically
significant extent, the objectivists are making increasingly absurd
arguments why statistically significant positive results of double-blind
ABX tests don't actually mean anything. :-)

>I really enjoyed your discussion on perception and models. I found it
>very interesting and after I thought about it the concepts seemed both
>intuitive and obvious.

Thank you.

The main point I was making is that what matters to us as listeners is the
internal states of the internal models our brains construct as a result of
soundwaves hitting our ears, and those states are by definition not
accessible to measurement.

But in my study of the science of perception, what astonished me was that
we don't experience sound in real-time but with a latency of around 100ms.
There is a _lot_ of processing going on in our brains before we experience
"sound," meaning we actually experience "reality" more than a tenth of a
second in the past. The latency is even greater with vision.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


Edits: 08/01/14
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