> ... you can see details in dim light, and you can see well in bright light,
> but a sudden transition from dim to bright or vice versa leaves you blinded:
> the input has exceeded your dynamic range window, your visual system has
> "clipped" ... Hearing is not much different, except that you don't have the
> equivalent of the AGC that the eyes (pupil, iris) have.)
While I'm not sure what exactly AGC means, I have heard somewhere that ears
are able to focus and lose focus of sounds and noise in a dynamic way. I was
once advised to buy full-ear headphones as opposed to ear-buds because
sounds hitting the outer part of the ear actually help the inside of the ear
adjust to what it's listening to, and can help prevent damage in a way that
ear-buds cannot.
Does anyone know enough about the working of the human ear to validate or
deny this?
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