The setting and mood have a big effect on what you hear since hearing is mostly in the mind. The physical bit (eardrums being vibrated by air and sending electrical signals) is just the mundane beginning of a glorious process.
It amazes me when people say "you couldn't really hear a difference, it's all in your head". Tosh! Hearing IS in your head. People really really actually hear differently because of psychological factors. There is no such thing as "thinking you hear differently". This is why blind testing is so important - it removes a whole raft or influences on the mind. Some people complain it's "stressful" to hear differences blind, the reason in many cases is that the source of the differences they heard was connected to the knowledge of what was playing. Take the knowledge away and you take the difference away (and, as discussed, it is a REAL, ACTUAL difference in what is heard that is removed). We should stop talking just about how equipment sounds! No-one has ever heard equipment except via their hearing sense. We need to approach the 'sound of equipment' and 'hearing sense' as two aspects of a whole. Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50083 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
