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In Reply to: An attempt to explain posted by John C. - Aussie on November 15, 2002 at 00:02:22:
Oh no, we need to question yet another postulate that you have injected into the discussion."tests with an audience of audiophiles would soon verify this BUT if a random sample of the population was chosen there might not be a statistically verifiable result."
The postulate is that "Audiophiles" are somehow gifted with more accurate ability in detecting distortion then the the average member of the population.
I do not believe that has been any work performed that would show this statement to be true. Not only that, it would be highly difficult to agree on what an Audiophile (beyond a dictionary definition which would be anyone who has an interest in audio). Audiophiles may talk about golden ears, but an audiophile is not automatically a golden ear, and a golden ear is not automatically an audiophile. I see no reason why golden ears would be limited to only those interested in audio. If they exist and certainly they do since there should be members of the population sample occurring at all end of the spectrum, including those with the ability to hear beyond a normalized range for humans, or be able to detect difference in sound because of greater resolving capabilities, there is no reason to think they significantly fall into the Audiophile category.
The idea that audiophiles have innately better hearing may just be hubris on the part of its members.
Tom N.
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- Re: An attempt to explain - Tom N. 06:59:58 11/15/02 (1)
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