From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017080622564398810-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I had a version of this " I can probably hear a difference " discussion   
   > with a snob friend of mine today.  He works with microscopes.  And I had   
   > let him play with one of my telescopes earlier in the day.  I ask him does   
   > he believe he can see better with his naked eyes than thru one of his   
   > microscopes ?  Obviously not, he replied. Well, can he see Saturn better   
   > with or without a telescope.   
      
   Strange question to ask in the first place ;)   
      
   > That led me to stating, that you know they make microphones and recording   
   > gear that can hear FAR better than any human. More frequency range, more   
   > detail, more sensitivity.  I ask if he seriously believed that there were   
   > things in the sound of old amps that humans can hear that isn't detectable   
   > by instrumentation ?  I pointed out that if there was something there that   
   > he could hear that for some crazy reason was intedectable by   
   > instrumentation and test gear, then what was it ?  Modern recording gear   
   > is far better than our ears.   
      
      
   > All that said, bottom line, all that technology is wasted on most modern   
   > music.   
      
   Jim   
      
   What passes for modern 'music' nowadays is mostly a waste of everything,   
   especially the time listening to it ;)   
      
   But as for detection equipment, that's an entirely different matter.   
      
   Equipment isn't living beings and it can't really 'hear' anything. It only   
   detects what it's been Designed to detect and how it's been Designed to   
   detect it. How it processes those signals is how it's been Designed to   
   process them. There is no psychology involved whatsoever, and that  can be a   
   good thing when the equipment is used  properly...and it can also be a bad   
   thing, when the results of Only the test equipment, is All that's   
   considered.   
   That's why it's Critical to listen critically. I used to do that all the   
   time, while also performing a number of tests using various equipment in   
   many different modes and different setups.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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