The Absurdity of it All


50-60-70 year old ears stating with certainty that what they hear is proof positive of the efficacy of analog, uber-cables, tweaks...name your favorite latest and greatest audio "advancement." How many rock concerts under the bridge? Did we ever wear ear protection with our chain saws? Believe what you will, but hearing degrades with age and use and abuse. To pontificate authority while relying on damaged goods is akin to the 65 year old golfer believing his new $300 putter is going to improve his game. And his game MAY get better, but it is the belief that matters. Everything matters, but the brain matters the most.
jpwarren58

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Thank you @bstbomber & @rcronk for those well reasoned thoughts.
One can't forget that in addition to our unique set of ears that they've been working in concert with our unique brain and continue to do so.

Our ears don't operate in a vacuum. Cherry picking them out of that equation and then breaking out that hoary meme of what we can't hear past a certain age ignores the rest that we can hear, or it's hoped that we overlook it and fall for it.

All the best,
Nonoise
When I was a lad I gave my dad a bumper sticker that read;
Old age and cunning will always overcome youth and skill.
He loved that sticker. 

All the best,
Nonoise

Yours appears to be darts. Blindfolded.
You wouldn't happen to made up of tightly packed cork and sisal fibers, would you?

Why, oh why, is there so much projection done on the part of the flat earth naysayers? They are the ones with their panties in a bunch, not the hobbyists. They are the ones who preach dogma, not the other way ’round. They are the ones who want consensus on their terms and brook no argument.

That, and they are so very, very tiring.

All the best,
Nonoise
Strange and flawed premise. It should read something like:
Isn’t it amazing that those who’ve had their ears in this game for most of their lives can still call it correctly when something is better or amiss?

And, does that indicate that the ear-brain relationship operates on a level that we have yet to fully understand? Could it be that there’s more computational operations going on behind the curtain than perviously thought?

That would be a better starting point than a gripe.

All the best,
Nonoise
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