"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?
You are over thinking it. Simple point was, should I have my system adjusted by somebody else's ears? I don't think so. Their ears don't know what sounds right to mine. As to the brains vs the ears debate, my ears and brains have been interconnected for over 70 years. I trust the combo. This is a DEEP discussion... |
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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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