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Author: cyclopathic
Date: 2015-01-26 23:59
putting aside the musical side, absolute pitch, preferences both musical and in equipment. Do we all hear the same sound the same way? Are our advices based on personal preferences or perception of reality?
Check these hearing tests:
High Frequency Range Test (8-22 kHz)
http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php
Online Audiogram Hearing Test (125 Hz - 8 kHz)
http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_hearingtestaudiogram.php
Low Frequency Range Test (10-200 Hz)
http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencychecklow.php
O'k the last one may be more of sub-woofer test
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2015-01-27 00:11
Can we ever truly know?
I suppose that the fact that in general the public are often drawn to similar perormances of certain music tends to indicate that there is not generally a wide discrepancy.
I know that when I was 20 I could clearly hear above 20 Kc/s (not Hertz back then) and in a recent audiology test my response was well down even at 8KHertz. However in the intervening 50 odd years my taste for sound quality has remained virtually unchanged. I didn't like the dull dark sounds some players were making in the 1950s and I still am not fond of the current trend for similarly dark/dank tones.
But am I hearing what others hear? I can't be sure.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-01-27 01:04
You know, it's not even all by the numbers either.
As someone who hocked stereo years ago, it was common knowledge that women where more sensitive (not that they heard higher just more prone to dislike them) to upper frequencies. Getting wives to agree on a speaker with a husband (rare anyway because "audio" is a man's game!) was just about impossible.
Then there are those amongst us who have a passion for the midrange (I think these are the chosen ones). The range of the human voice falls mostly in here, which is the sweet spot for music. British speaker company Quad made its reputation marketing its really high end electrostatics to those individuals.
Of course you may be asking a similar question to, "We all KNOW what the color RED is, but do we actually experience it the same way?"
Some common pitfalls we fall into are "dark" vs "bright." While you may think a "Dark" sound is mellow (lacking upper partials), another may say "dark" is a creamy, or smooth sound rife with upper partials. I know for a fact we as a Bulletin Board community will never all agree what's "dark" or what's "bright."
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-01-27 03:22
Not only will we never know until such a time, if ever, that we can enter into each other's consciences, our own personal preferences, even our age is bound to dictate what stands out to us.
Show the same optical illusion to 2 different people and one sees "X" and the other sees "Y." first. There's reason to expect that our other senses differ from one person to another as well.
Witness cell phone ringtones extremely high in frequency that can be heard by and are designed for teenages. Teachers, somewhat older in age, often can't hear then, as we tend to lose the ability to hear this high range with age.
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Author: Slowoldman
Date: 2015-01-27 19:36
Not to mention what my wife has dubbed the "screeching of the National Anthem" at sporting events. No, we don't all hear things the same way.
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