Soulkeeper;687809 Wrote: > > For instance, some years ago a friend of mine mentioned that every time > he tried to pick the backing vocals in a song, in order to learn the > tune, he got into his old rusty Golf and drove around playing the track > on the car CD player. Now, neither this CD player, the speakers, nor the > listening compartement could be regarded as anything close to hi-fi, > actually it was a terrible system even for a car, but the backing > vocals always stuck out, clear as day. And it was a nice way to hear > things you hadn't heard before, even though it's no praise to his > in-car sound system.
This likely illustrates two things, both related to the "cocktail party effect". I'll wager that the car noise had gaps in the upper mid-range, just where the backing vocals are apt to be; and habituated focus on the music was able to pick them out more easily from the foreground. It was likely BECAUSE of the noisy environment that the background vocals came more easily to attention. R. -- RonM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93362 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
