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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Remembering Sound…
Post Subject: "....and realises that he did not even know how to listen."Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/20/2006

 Dominic wrote:
Shuvam said: There are so many sounds which in reality are dramatically different from the impressions we carry in our heads when we describe them in oft-used phrases. I have discovered quite often that when I really _listen_, the real sounds are not nice or pretty. And I hadn’t even noticed this till now. This has been a humbling experience; a forty-year-old engineer with engineering degrees from one of the top institutes in country suddenly wakes up and realises that he did not even know how to listen."
What Shuvam said is very typical for very many people. My estimate is the 99% of people who do High-End audio are intellectually deaf and have no proper listening skills. However, there is something more to it (and I will try do not go into this subject too deep).  Evan if a person, for instance Shuvam, discovers his listening ignorance and spent efforts to develop his listening intelligence then his new developed listening intelligence has no framework to be understood or embraced by people who do audio. You see, listening intelligence is a sense of (self) realization but it is absorbing sense, not an expressed one. It is imposable to share this realization directly (possible only indirectly). Therefore, Shuvam might say that he “did not even know how to listen” and people still might understand him. However, if he said “I know how to listen” then there is a very large array of very stratified meanings that the phases might imply. The most remarkable is that deeper Shuvam would go in his true meanings of his listening knowledge the less communicative his rustling observations will be.

Rgs,
Romy the CatPS: I have to make clear that in my post I made one intestinal inaccuracy. I had my reasons to do it is you picked it up then you understand why I simplified it.

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