Golden Earring wrote: > Hi all. > > Just to be clear, I'm not on here to argue with anyone. >
If so, you must be highly pained by your energetic arguing on the side of audio mysticism. > > I use my music system simply to listen to music: but I am consistently > hearing new detail in familiar recordings, which is in a real sense > quite sufficient for me. > Well then you have contradicted yourself, because the simplist thing is what I do - listen to music for pleasure. Thing is, from time to time I may inadvertently hear new detail, or not. However, there is some interesting relevant science. Our brain's ability to remember small details in sound is so limited (just a few seconds) that we forget most of it a few seconds after we hear it. So, every time we hear what seem to us to be new details when in fact nothing changed but us. > > It's simply that having an enquiring mind, I am curious why this is the > case. It may be an unexplained mystery of the universe, in which case > I'll let it go. > No, it is well understood, but apparently not by you. > > I was hoping that someone would be able to at least come up with a > plausible hypothesis for the phenomenon: I would be delighted to assist > in rigorously testing any decent suggestion. > No need for help testing that because it is a known fact of science. I personally encountered it back in the late 1970s. I've seen it in books and papers written after 1985. > > I don't have golden ears or a closed mind. > That's good because they don't exist! > > It is in fact equally possible to attempt to refute a proposition by > claiming an unimpeachable knowledge of "science" as it is to say I can > hear something you can't. > Well, I am now 70 and I know for sure that things I heard easily when I was in my 30s are not so easy or impossible for me now. > > A rational approach lies between these positions, otherwise we cannot > have a genuine discussion. I was hoping to bring this thread back to an > interesting discourse after the earlier shenanigans... > > Otherwise, I'll just enjoy the music! > Dave :) I predict that you will continue to resist the facts of science that I post here. That how it always seems to work. People want me to be more open minded, when it is they who are both ignorant and closed minded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
