magiccarpetride;684838 Wrote: > > The question is: is that ability to hear and discern various > instruments an illusion? Is it something that our brains get tricked > into fabricating in our head (similar to how they get tricked into > fabricating the spatial positioning of the instruments)
Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: This is ridiculous. Give the question the slightest thought, and one would remember that the difference (for example) between a cello and a piano playing a note of the same frequency is easily heard (and more importantly measured, in terms of harmonics etc), even if replayed on the cheapest transistor radio. The question of what we call the soundstage surviving the recording and reproduction chain is an interesting one. This is not. Of course, any given instrument will sound and measure differently on a half-decent hifi system (hopefully closer to the original!) than is does on the transistor radio, and, for that matter, a different species might subjectively experience the "sound" very differently (perhaps even with a sense other than hearing). But the objective difference between one sound and another, as evidenced by the differing waves excited in the sound transmission medium, remains, and is real. Yes, even if there is no-one (or nothing) there to hear it. -- darrell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93105 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
