Totally agree that people hear things differently. The brain is designed to decode sound to make sense of it - part of both our hunter and survivor skills - and a lot of that work is done in the time or phase domian. I do a lot of my experimentation (nearly 100 documented experiments on interconnect cable designs this year, and many not documented) with myself as the listener. But when I do the same experiments on other listeners it is clear that others are more or less sensitive to certain types phase distortions. This is one of the reasons why I think burn in is related to insulators and their different dielectric properties, and the fact/belief that their perfomance changes over a very long period when subjected to an electrical field. I recall my friend Ernie telling me of work he did in the military many years ago on how to quickly burn in (not a phrase he would choose, but in this context it is what he means) teflon insulation. Then again the military could have been suffering from placebo effect or faulty intelligence at the time - it wouldn't be a first.
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