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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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.
The greeks see the color but experienced them completely differently....The eyes/brain interpretation pathway was not in the same state ...

it is called a collectively induced synesthesia, they associated the wine color and sea color with other qualities like the lost of balance and never think to associate wine and sea, 2 dark objects, with a different particular color...

Qualities are never totally separate "animals"....

Some here associate harshness, and higher frequencies with the adjective "cold" light clean and detailed...
and warmer soft with dark unclean and distorted ....

This is a vocabulary existing in audio not in musical history for all musical history....

An instrument has a " tonal timbre" , an amplifier in the contrary is characterized in another way...Same for the speakers.... It is an induced habit coming from audio engineering not music or musicians... It is an induced cenesthesia associated with a particular object: an audio system...

Humans changed with culture and conditioning... But cenesthesia stay....Cenesthesia is an expression of the child state plasticity of the brain and can be collectively expressed ...

Most people in the world associated mountain peaks or a zig zag mark with a sharp qualities like a saw and a string of clouds with a soft feeling....

Even each vocal sounds induce his own cenesthesia, sometimes very different for different people....

it is a universal cenesthesia in one case, and someimes a particular cenesthesia...

Any perception of a phenomenon changed the body/brain state....It is a two way business...The phenomenon is changed too in many ways...

The greek were not wrong and Newton right, they 2 ignored, contrary to Goethe, the physiology and psychology of the perception....

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.
Do we just make up our own meaning for words here? Is that how it works for y’all. That is not what induced synaesthesia is and synaesthesia has nothing to do with the Greeks and the color blue. If we are just gonna make things up why have a forum? Calling a sound warm does not mean ya feel physically warm no matter how many times ya repeat it. Maybe if I put ya under a heat lamp when I turned up the bass then ya would have an argument. Ya gone and taken a simple act of learned classification, like blue or pink with what that color represents and gone ran off the end of the world with it.
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... ya probably should be a little more humble and think twice, three times for some of ya, before posting this elitist drivel.
I see you just joined the forum yesterday. Are you here to practice your creative writing skills?