WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR?


It seems like when I see comments on high end gear there is a lot of negativity. I have been an audiophile for the last 20 years. Honestly, if you know how to choose gear and match gear a lot of the high end gear is just better. When it comes to price people can charge what they want for what they create. If you don’t want it. Don’t pay for it. Look if you are blessed to afford the best bear and you can get it. It can be very sonically pleasing. Then do it. Now if you are also smart and knowledgeable you can get high end sound at mid-fi prices then do it. It’s the beauty of our our hobby. To build a system that competes with the better more expensive sounding systems out there. THOUGHTS?

calvinj

What are the competing theories in psychoacoustics pertaining to well established thresholds of human hearing or the current models of how we process and store aural memories? I was not aware of any actual theories in psychoacoustics that challenge the current body of studies that have already established those thresholds of human hearing or any theories that challenge the current models of how we filter and steer focus when listening and how that information is further filtered through data reduction and additional steered focus. Can you point us to any literature in the field of psychoacoustics that talks about these competing theories?

 

Read this and you will have a gist of an aspect of the problem ...

https://phys.org/news/2013-02-human-fourier-uncertainty-principle.html

Link this article above with this one about the conditions around a good audio design :

https://www.temporalcoherence.nl/cms/images/docs/FourierConditions.pdf

For the competing theories about hearing, google it, there is many competing theories, but the main point is between theory of ecological perception inspired by J.J. Gibson in visual perception field and the theory based on a more traditional mechanical view ( Fourier, Helmholtz, etc )

By the way we must not conflate the immense progress in audio technology with pure scientific unresolved question about hearing itself ...

For example the fact we create A.I. with neural network are not a proof of our understanding of the brain AT ALL ... It is easy to demonstrate because consciousness dont emerge from the neural level , but from a much smaller scale according to the most important research in this field right now ...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257134660_Consciousness_in_the_universe_a_review_of_the_%27ORCH_OR%27_theory

Technology is not science, and science is not knowledge ...

As transhumanism and other technological cult simplify it by reduction ...

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@scottwheel so that deeper soundstage.  Airy decay. Tighter bottom end bass. It’s all human biology. lol 😂 

>>> I don’t perceive sound any differently than you or anyone else. >>>
 

>> am pretty sure this is questionable, at least. >>
 

how so?

If you do not know it by now, I guess you never will.

As demonstrated by the first of the article in my post above , we dont understand exactly how the human hearing beat the Fourier threshold and the Gabor limits ...

https://phys.org/news/2013-02-human-fourier-uncertainty-principle.html

For the aural memory problem , analysing it in pure quantitative terms is beside the main point and is not enough ... The body store aural memory in his metabolism rythm as emotions and as meanings too ...

Sound and musical memory are not only accurate quantities, they are essentially RECOGNIZED pattern of meanings perceived in their own non linear time domain and they are also emotions stored in our body and by which we can ressuscitate even consciousness ( alzheimer patient listening music . unborn babies growing a brain with rythm )

Reducing aural memory as a mere mechanistic process can be useful in technological experiment, and it must be so because technology to be efficient need limits ; but putting this mechanistic approach as the ONLY way human store sound memory is not only detrimental to hearing research it is simplistic ... Science dont reduce itself to technology...

Technology must simplify and use maps to work , but science goes on by facing complexity and reality, not mere maps...And knowledge is the ability to differentiate technology and science, maps and reality ...

Knowledge call for wisdom not for technology at the end ...

Our world is actually in a state of destruction created by ideological technocrats reducing not only wisdom and knowledge but science to technology for the sake of corporate greed and power ... I dont know if you learned something in the last 4 years humanity goes through, about science, greed, power, technology etc  but i learned a lot  ...

Do you or do you not accept the well researched established thresholds of human hearing and human aural memory?