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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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I have yet to see a correct usage of y'all.  @nonoise is right.
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Are there six or seven colors of the rainbow?

Answer:

There is no wavelength assigned to indigo. If you want a number, it's around 445 nanometers, but it doesn't appear on most spectra. There's a reason for this. English mathematician Isaac Newton (1643–1727) coined the word spectrum (Latin for "appearance") in his 1671 book "Opticks." He divided the spectrum into seven sections—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—in keeping with the Greek sophists, to connect the colors to days of the week, musical notes, and the known objects of the solar system.

So, the spectrum was first described with seven colors, but most people, even if they see color well, can't actually distinguish indigo from blue or violet. The modern spectrum typically omits indigo. In fact, there is evidence Newton's division of the spectrum doesn't even correspond to the colors we define by wavelengths. For example, Newton's indigo is the modern blue, while his blue corresponds to the color we refer to as cyan. Is your blue the same as my blue? Probably, but it may not be the same as Newton's.


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Many things exist on a continuous spectrum.

Language often attempts to chop that spectrum up into discrete units.  Take watery precipitation: drizzle, rain, downpour, etc.

For the same spectrum, different languages may chop at different points along the spectrum, and they may create a greater or lesser number of discrete units along the spectrum.

Within a given language, as Saussure demonstrated, meaning depends on members of that language group having broad agreement as to what a particular word refers to, as, with the exception of onomatopoeia, the relationship between word (and the sound of the word) and thing is purely a matter of convention.
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