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In Reply to: My real question re. ' Break In' of components.. posted by AJ F on March 3, 2006 at 09:42:24:
I find it sad to think that the human mind is so feeble that it can not distinguish a change in sound quality over time.
8^)....
Stu
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Your senses adjust to stimuli to keep them within an acceptable range for analysis. Your pupils dialate in bright light, after a while soft sounds seem louder and loud sounds seem softer. An unbearably hot spa becomes comfortable after a few minutes.Your senses were designed/adapted to help you find food and avoid danger, not to evaluate audio.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
notice the smiley I have in the original post.
Second, are you then saying it doesn't matter what kind of equipment and sound we get from our systems, because eventually we will adapt to it? It would certainly would save a lot of money and resources.
Just wondering, because then we would not really need any professional musicians either. We could just adapt to the the amateur players (and there are some really good ones, but then that may be my imagination, too).
8^)....
Stu
> Second, are you then saying it doesn't matter what kind of equipment and sound we get from our systems, because eventually we will adapt to it? It would certainly would save a lot of money and resources.Yep, it sure would. IMHO your gear should sound good enough so when you first sit down to listen, it sounds OK. Anything more is gravy.
> Just wondering, because then we would not really need any professional musicians either.
Read my signature :)-|- <
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
Wow, never heard such a pathetic response! That humans can and do adapt is a great strength. To see this in terms of the "human mind being so feeble" is way out in left field.Let me guess, you give no credence to the fact that tests have shown that aural memory is very poor and that makes you a golden eared marvel because you do remember everything.
Stu
How many have it?
I live in a city of about 1 million. I certainly don't know everyone in it. Within my circle of acquaintances, I know of three people who have perfect pctch and several others who have near perfect pitch. That's enough to show me that auditory memory is not so transient as some wold like to believe.
It can be very difficult, and you can actually take classes in aural training at most music departments on the high school and collegiate level. You can train any sense.
Stu
One in 10,000 in the west and the incident in the Far East is estimated to be ten to a hundred times higher, at least by some studies. No one really knows, because there is not too much documentation in China. It is believed by some, (not by me) that the tonality of the Chinese language has something to do with the high incidence.
Stu
I have seen people using 30-year old systems, unaware that the surrounds on their speakers rotted away long ago, who have adapted to the "evolving" sound. Then, when you introduce speakers that are working correctly (in their room and their system), they instantly realize what has happened to them.
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