Julf wrote: > That a hearing defect prevents something that makes assumptions about > your hearing from working?
It is possible that my ability to discern MP3 from FLAC is because of a hearing defect. In theory that really is a valid reason that makes complete sense to me and when this assumption first came up I honestly found it to be quite creative. Critical thinking is always good and you can't take it too far. (Btw. could you please point me to the scientific paper which intentionally included hearing impaired participants for a data reduction test with music?) But you can apply critical thinking in both ways. Let's take the proven and known facts about auditory memory. According to those insights it is not possible to remember sonic events for longer than a couple of seconds. Fair enough, but what about emotional memory? Music has always been and will always be about emotions (except maybe for minimal music). What if you are able to remember a specific emotional state rather than the sonics itself? It is proven that emotional experiences leave strong traces in the brain. This is just hypothetically spoken, I don't want to claim anything on that topic. All people are removing cognitive dissonances with brain acrobatics the same way that all humans are accessible to placebo effects. I do and you do. Sometimes it is very hard to discern that from critical thinking. But hey, I thanked you! Please read my initial post again. Cheers Living Room: Squeezelite -> WDM-KS/HDMI -> NAD M51 (Rowen Swiss Edition) -> Rowen Absolute MONO -> Quad 22L Sleeping Room: Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101084 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
