servies;233853 Wrote: > I think you're giving the human hearing system to much credit. It's > extremely limited and it's very limited in it's capabilities of > accurately processing sound. The dynamic range is pretty small as is > its frequencyrange or directional capabilities. Compared to the system > of a lot of other creatures this planet inhabits, it's a piece of > crap... > Thankfully we learned to circumvent it's limitations otherwise we > probably would have been extinct...
Sorry but IMHO this is nonsense. I suppose you'd apply this same philosophy to all of our senses?. And why stop there? After all, the secret of our success as a species is our brain, which is the key to making sense of our senses. You're a software engineer right? - Do you know how the brain works or how to make a computer even approximate the sophistication of the human brain? - no, thought not. Neither does anyone else at this time. You just need to face the fact that there are still more things in heaven and earth than we have dreamed about...and each day we uncover a few more. I fail to understand why you would even bother to listen to music, realising as you do that what you are hearing is so far removed from what it would sound like if only we had decent auditory systems....sheesh, that must be frustrating. D'ya think those musicians thought "oh well, it's the best we could do with our limited ability to hear the true majesty of what we are trying to create". Makes Beethoven look like a real loser... I am not an "audiophile" - My background is similar to Pat's and Robin's. I know what I like and I know what I think is better or worse. I don't expect anyone to agree with me. I don't believe that $7k cables make any sense at all - as Nick said, the best cable is NO cable!. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
