Goatwuss, Arkio,
There is no need for an argument about coloration. Here is my explanation why.
Nature didn't create us all equal, as you know, some of us are white, some black, some are brown, some are tall, some are smart, and there are some, who are less so.
The same goes for our hearing apparatus. Being a physian and an educator, I feel compelled to give a short anatomy and physiology lecture here, which I feel is long overdue.
Our hearing apparatus is strictly analog mechanical device.
Our external ear is simply a horn, designed to amplify sound.
The other part of our internal ear is a membrane, consist. of a different lenghts fibers, designed to response to a different frequencies of the audible spectrum. It looks not unlike xylophone.
With some stretch of imagination, one can assume, that that part of our internal ear differs from one person to another.
To stretch our imagination even further, it's safe to assume, that being different lenghts and thickness, they would resonate at different freuencies, causing different amplitude of the electric signal, generated in the corresponding receptors to go to our auditory cortex, to be percieved as a sound of different loudness.
So, all of us, hearing the exact same signal at specific frequency, will have an electrical signal od different amplitude generated in their receptors, and will hear it at different loudness levels.
All this said, I don't really understand, how come we still having an argument about a sound signature of a certain component(s). The simple truth is- we all hear differently, and that explains why Goatwuss and Arkio do not hear sibilance and Tvad, Mrjstark, myself and many others do.
That should put an end to all arguments of this kind, hopefully.
Most likely it won't though.
