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With great interest I have read the recent Blog post by Detlef Stern I've read about the many things a person can hear. My hearing was already affected in the early 1980s, among other things, by the stimulant DM22.
A few years ago, Detlef Stern I noticed that my living room speakers weren't working. I still can't quite understand why, by the way, probably because sounds are first formed in the brain, and this can compensate for a lack of, or even defective, sensors. And so, this should also compensate for the respective sound boars or screaming cubes.
From a purely technical perspective, one can certainly compare frequencies, modulations, or even sound tracks, and if we all had the same hearing and brain, good comparisons would certainly be possible. Nevertheless, I continue to admire those hearing and brains capable of spatially assigning individual tones and then even distinguishing their pitches; although I can only understand this theoretically—one can also unlearn how to hear.
What is exciting is that since the discussions with Detlef Stern I now listen a little more closely to music and sometimes actually notice differences. It would be very interesting to determine where these differences ultimately originate.
And maybe I'll also get an explanation as to why records are supposed to sound and feel warmer than CDs?
Until then, I'll continue listening to music, or at least I think I can. Like the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung song below, which was played over and over again on every channel in 1985.
Back then, like the protagonist of the song, we drove from Munich to the provinces in various "luxurious cars," although we usually didn't even have to leave Munich. Even back then, I was fascinated by the lyrics of this song. Thomas Spitzer. The expression “furrow needle” immediately piqued my interest.
The first general uncertainty was founded in 1978 and released some very listenable pieces in the 1980s, such as the following.
The upcoming talks with Detlef Stern will certainly clarify whether, where and how I actually listen to this music.
Until then, the following musical note applies…
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Your speakers definitely "work." In the sense that they produce sounds that can be interpolated into music. They work somewhat asymmetrically, and somewhat less so in some frequency ranges than in others. 😉 Yes, you can learn (and unlearn) how to hear. I'm still working on hearing. Good devices help.
My theory for the supposedly warmer sound of records: the mechanics of the players react more slowly to changes, just as amplifier tubes react more slowly to changes than transistors. This means individual notes are less clearly separated and blend more (which some people perceive as "warm").
And once again, I'm a little bit wiser. Probably not, though, because, as we all know, new things make us forget old, barely used things. As in the rest of life, the law of conservation of energy applies here too. And intelligence is not the amount of knowledge, but the ability to have the right knowledge at hand at the right time. And that should explain why we learn throughout our lives, or at least why we should.