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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The Sound and How We Hear It
Post Subject: Additive error and Seven levels of ListeningPosted by drdna on: 11/10/2008
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
I feel that those approaches exist but I do not see them conflicting at all. So, the additive vs. subtractive listening  “works” only at the most primitive Static perception level.
I must disagree with this assessment. It is certainly up to the listener what depth of the seven levels he will listen to any particular piece of music on the stereo; however, all the information is there on the vinyl to provide this capacity.

Therefore, it must be that anything that can affect the audio reproduction can potentially affect all levels of our perception.

As you correctly describe it, it is the listener's PERCEPTION which is delineated into seven levels, NOT the music or the audio reproducing system. Certainly it is my experience that a certain stereo component can improve so-called clarity or some static concern but can have simultaneously a negative impact on emotional understanding of a piece or of other levels of perception. It is actually this very strange observation that has led me to formulate the idea of additive and subtractive errors in audio.

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