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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: How we "think" about audio
Post Subject: TrickyPosted by op.9 on: 1/30/2008
The problem I encounter is that a by its very nature, a pure audio 'it' renders itself invisable. i.e. as soon as my system can do something better - more musical - then this just gets absorbed into the listenbility and is not really an issue any more, however big a jump it is.

The Janacek analogy is apt here too. Its very easy to experiance a Janacek 'it', but its very hard indeed - and might take many years of false rationalisations - to be able to work our what this 'it' is and how it works. Particularly for Janacek - because he works on the boundaries of our musical logic.

So while I agree 'it' does exist in the relm of pure audio, I'm not sure what help this is. There does seem to be a big gap between easily recognising frequency response problems, nasty resonances, etc etc  - and being able to quantify those amazing affects that good audio can have on us. 'Hats off' to those who have developed this skill!

james

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