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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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toddalin
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"Trust my brains?"  Nah, that would apply to any of the senses.

Do you "believe your eyes" or are they just conduits to your brain that does the believing?

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toddalin
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"The point of this thread is that sound quality is determined not by our ears but by our brains."

 

No, the sound quality is determined by the equipment/source producing it.  Your ears are merely conduits to your brain to pick up these vibrations and your brain makes a "judgement" as to what it prefers.

BION, some people actually like the sound of a guitar played through a distortion pedal. 

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