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Why audiophiles are different (explained with color)

A very interesting video on color and color perception. How it comes into being.

In the act of doing so, it illustrates how the complexity of the high end audio world comes into existence.. 

at the same time it explains how we end up with almost what you would call 'violent detractors'. Negative detractors.

People unable to discern nuance. Audio haters. As in .....non evolved people, regarding audio.

This is not a put down, it merely uses the words to describe the position in life they are in at the time. They may evolve more into the given audio directions, or they may not. It is a matter of will, choice, time, and innate capacity to do so.

Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue
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petg60
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One of the many things i love in audio is that definitions are so differently understood as the perception of sound.
Also our perception varies drastically on visual equipment too, and i still wonder why so many people choose a TV that is showing the sea coloured blue on a rainy day and that is not a nuance but a big difference.
petg60
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Some scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries claimed that the Greeks did not see colours. They saw them, and well, but they only described them in a different way, surely people's eyes are always the same and will remain the same. Case is that ears are functioning the same way. The colours were, for the Greeks, primarily life and light: an experience completely human and not natural, visual, which has nothing to do with the colour spectrum of the prism, as defined by Isaac Newton. 
Very interesting thread @teo_audio, food for  thought for some.
petg60
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Scientific research on synesthesia is a very new field that has only developed in the last 20 or so years. Before that i believe it was called only a phenomenon.
petg60
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Love that song and lp cover.
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