Phil Leigh wrote: > servies;234002 Wrote: >> Et voilà, you answered your own question... >> The brain is interpolating/upsampling the data it gets, coloring it >> with all the past experience it has... >> Is this bad? I've never had a problem with it, but I'm not going to say >> that we humans have hearing capabilities we can't measure... >> To get to that redbook story: >> The frequency response of audio CD is from 20 Hz to 20 kHz >> I believe the average human doesn't even hear above 18 kHz, youngsters >> still get the 20 kHz signal, but older people don't... > > But surely that's the whole point? - I agree we can probably determine > what the ear itself is doing, but we have no great method of dtermining > what the brain is doing with whatever limited information it IS getting > from the ear (and we mustn't forget about bone conduction by the way). > > Therefore, it doesn't make sense to limit the engineering to only > produce what we believe our ears to be capable of when we don't know > what the brain is doing and exactly how it combines data from the ears > with "other stuff".
Exactly. R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
