snarlydwarf;180098 Wrote: > Can't we all agree on some basic realities: > 1) Human perception is easily fooled by a variety of influences > (loouder, hints, expectations, etc... some obvious, some subtle) >
Good post, I agree with your points. Most people accept the truth of optical illusions. Most people accept that common visual phenomena don't mean what our senses tell us and can factor this conclusion in. Very few people accept the truth of auditory illusions and the possibility of being tricked or confused by auditory setup. For example, people totally discount room acoustics or volume in comparsions. I really don't understand why this is, but it is an observation both here and in my purchasing process. Anyone who has studied (or even read about) how the brain processes sensory data eventually is amazed we form a coherent picture at all of the world. The brain edits sensory input very heavily and there are literal "distortions" all along the path between sensor and perception of awareness (whatever the heck that is anyway, but we all know it cause we all allegedly have it). Yet audiophilia is somehow exempt from this. Puzzling. Maybe complex hearing is just far more rare than complex seeing... (just speculation on my part). -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
