magiccarpetride;621488 Wrote: > So the theory that my ears broke in after a certain accommodation period > is a load of bollocks, because if that's true, it would apply to every > other component, no?
No one is talking about your ears having "broke in" but rather your brain having made perceptual adjustments. The investigation into psychological factors influencing our perception is quite extensive and well documented. The hobby of audio equipment does not have a special exception to the influences that affect human perception. One of the biggest misconceptions I see repeatedly in audio is the belief that certain individuals think they are in full command of their biases and have accounted for all possible subjective influences. Short of acquiring divine status, that's not possible in this life. These subjective influences, many of which reside below the level of consciousness, also help explain why there can be such a wide range of varying reactions to the same piece of equipment. And it also explains why those differences also lessen in scale (and sometimes disappear) when people listen without the benefit of their subjective factors. -- mlsstl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86359 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
