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Re: Do we all hear the same thing?

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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