Synergistic calls out Audioholics

For the most part, I don’t think this is going to change anyone’s mind about anything......

When entrenched, the human psyche, when under pressure, tends to become more entrenched. It’s a ’bite down harder’ kinda thing, a ’more tenacity required’ kind of function of the overall design.

Every now and then some folks do change their minds about things, but in their own way, in private ways and spaces, out of sight, in a good frame of mind ..where thinking clearly is possible....not in any environment where public face is involved.

Where as soon as public face is involved ...egos are involved... and then positions in the given monkey clan are at threat... as such considerations are notably built out of clan position aspects.

Individuals can be fine. They can get past the bodily created and carried issues. Groups? Groups...are a monkey mess, for the most part. Intelligent people in idiot groupings. Happens all the time.

The saddest things of all is if someone or some company creates a near perfect item or piece or whatever, an amp or a speaker or a cable or a DAC or cartridge or what have you...

..there is nowhere for it to go, to fit, to belong.

As everything extant is generally lopsided to some degree. These things do not exist in isolation, and they have to work with other pieces or components.

Then we add in the individual hearing part that is connected to all of this. How complex and individually driven, individually designed or built in the mind. How individual hearing is. Then the part about it being connected to general neural complexity or capacity of the given mind. So the variants (comparable to intelligence curves/plots) available in hearing... amount to some 7.6 billion variants.

Then the added point that we don’t really know all there is to know about humans, or hearing, or air pressure conversions to electrical signals, or measuring electrical signals with respect to what is important in audio and so on. All these subjects are still being explored and change in their fundamentals and available data to analyze, almost by the day. 

Stone does not exist, it can't be written in stone, nothing is written in stone... as dogma/stone is the science and human advancement killer (dogma makes it go circular and dead), even though it (dogma) is a part of the experience of life, part of the irremovable rose colored glasses of human mind conscious thought, the  mental intake and projection. Especially when in groups. Dogma is for societal constructs and has no place in science. Science is change, it is the buddhist walk down the road, the steps taken, the journey.

This (whole envelope of issues and scenarios in situ) is a recipe for disaster when it comes to agreement among clans or camps.

Audioholics membership and participation will go up and synergistic sales will inch up.

It’s just one of those human things.

"I don’t care what they say about me, as long as they say about me." 

There have been some studies done recently where the results seemed to illustrate that limited rewards cause the highest levels of energetic involvement/engagement, in people. That tenacity thing again. In all of it’s complex origins and outward expressions. 

(The studies were partially tied to gaming on line, large player groups. Where something akin to the least rewards were tied to the highest levels of player participation. That dang monkey on the Serengeti plains keeps running the underlying biological carrier system)

Its a very complex equation to hear subtleties in a strange room with different gear and so on.

Some of us are wired to do this as a profession.

Eg, Taras, the other half of Teo Audio, his job has been to do exactly that thing. To be one of the best at it, the one called in when all the other pros fail. He’s the only one who give guarantees in the contract. all the others are so nervous about their skill set that almost no acoustics firm at the high end pro level will give guarantees and refunds on paper. They simply walk out the door and refuse the contract. Taras is, IMO, the ultimate acoustics ’cooler’. Hire him if you want the best. He’s not getting any younger and the skill set is not transferable. Peak skill is like that.

Anyway, his job is to analyze the acoustics of any space and convert it to the perfect soundstage for human speech intelligibility, for the myopic and idiotic microphone. Which just happens to be perfect for high end audio acoustics and systems.

To explain the whole envelope or complexity of issues at hand with where one heard a difference in the Axpona room - or not, we enter not just into the science of the complexities.... but we also enter the area of strong potentials in personal butthurt... regarding ego and clan position. Emotions, on the personal level and how this colors thought. And more. Extra ugly bonus points: Music is about emotions so we process down in the animal levels on this one, the coloring and filtering area of the mind, the animal baggage, the fundamental filtering (of all in/out) areas.

It becomes a ’why am I not smart?’ kind of issue. It goes deep into human psychology with all of the complex mess in earlier posts as part of the equation. Hearing is not perfectly equatable to general intelligence, as variants exist like a smart person being physically weak or vice-versa.

eg, to go into the room at Axpona and hear nothing is not all that surprising.

To go into the room and train one’s ears over a few days, then one hears it. One might hear it minimally, vestigially, or even grossly or intensely.

Then... as one spends months at it, like working out at the gym, one end up with what is perceived as a ’great difference’.

Or one might not have the physiology/psychology to get ’bulked up’ in one’s hearing ...or has a different cognitive direction, or hearing design and physical package.

Then... at that point ...one might deign to decide if that difference, in level of intensity or type/nature... is important to a person.

Me? I’ve done this so long and in so may directions and ways, that when I’m peaked out, like an athlete at perfect prime, who is fully prepped to take on the most strenuous task possible (which ain’t all the time!).... I can generally tell what kind of speaker is in the given room at the show (crossover type, box type, ported, sealed, panel, single full range, etc), what kind of amplifier/system, tube or solid state, feedback or not, what kind of acoustics are in the room, etc. All that from outside the room, near the doorway.

Like learning to see waldo quickly in the given image, it’s a skill. The kind that people can learn. We can each complete tasks to various levels and so on. Learning. Retention. Capacity.

Individualism. Humanity’s curse and most potent savior/future.

I see your monkey, and I raise you an intellectual take.