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In Reply to: Ah...the unproven long term listening excuse posted by Caymus on June 3, 2006 at 20:48:06:
Caymus, "IF" this statement you made is true... 1 – There is overwhelming evidence that long term human memory for sound characteristics is extremely poor (compared to vision or smell). For example if you go to a party and meet 10 people, you’re not going to identify their voices the next week. But you’ll probably easily identify all 10 photos. So if sound memory is unreliable and poor, what exactly are audiophiles comparing to for several months?Why is that I can hear a movie and not see it, and be able to identify its, Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie, Steven Segal, Halle Berry, Sylvester Stallone etc. speaking?
You seem to be forgetting that people are incorperating ALL their senses when assimilating data. Different people use their various senses quite differently, that is they all use their senses to different degrees, when assimilating data. Some people are primarily, sight, sound or touch orientated. I would think it self-evident that this plays a significant role in how they assimilate an audio experience as well.
A sight, sound or touch orientated person would assimilate listening to music quite differently from each other. So we'd need to determine what type of person we are dealing with. How you can tell what a person's primary method for assimilating data is quite easily, just by paying attention to how they speak!
For Example: If an new idea is being expressed to a group of people and you wanted to know how these individuals assimilate the data being presented, you could ask "Was that understood by all?"
A mainly sight orientated person might say "I cannot seem to VISUALIZE what you're saying." A mainly sound orientated person might say " That doesn't SOUND right to me." A mainly touch orientated person might say I cannot get a GRASP what you're saying." A mainly scent orientated person might say "Something doesn't SMELL right about that idea to me."
The fact that people vary in how they assimilate the data presented them is a quite well known fact and it just HAS to play a part in their audio experience as well. To what degree, I don't know. I only wanted to present another point-of-view. I don't dispute there is overwhelming evidence that long term human memory for sound characteristics is extremely poor (compared to vision or smell). Perhaps many people are just more sight or scent orinetated????
Thetubeguy1954
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