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"I Trust My Ears"

Do you? Can you? Should you?

I don’t. The darn things try to trick me all the time!

Seriously, our ears are passive sensors. They forward sonic data to our brains. Ears don’t know if the data in question represents a child crying, a Chopin prelude, or a cow dropping a cowpie. That’s our brains’ job to figure out.

Similarly, our brains decide whether A sounds better than B, whether a component sounds phenomenal, etc.

So, "I trust my ears" should really be "I trust my brains".

And that has a different ring to it, doesn’t it?

 

 

devinplombier

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mike_in_nc
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Trust, but verify -- as Ronald Reagan said (not that he's any hero of mine).

A classic story is an audio person hearing a difference, then finding the patch cords were not as expected, and the difference makes no sense.

Especially with speakers, I do like a nice measurement to help me understand better what I'm hearing.

 

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