Re: sam9
[/I] Our brains are such good signal processors that we can adapt to a wide range of sound environments.
-Originally posted by sam9
How true.
I am reminded of the true account I read in Audio magazine once. When he was just starting out in the business, a young engineer was hired by a loudspeaker company. After tweaking several designs, he noticed that his boss always wanted the high ranges very very soft compared to the rest of the music. His boss said that it sounded more natural, just like at the symphony hall where he had season tickets for several years.
One Friday, the young engineer's boss asked him if he would like to go to the symphony hall that Saturday night, since something came up and he would not be able to attend. The young engineer was glad to get the chance to attend with his boss' tickets.
When he got to symphony hall and sat in his boss' customary reserved seat, he noticed something. The particular spot where the boss' seat was located was a "dead spot" for high frequencies. When he excused himself a couple of times and moved around the hall as if to go to the men's room, the high ranges returned.
His boss was tuning every speaker the company made to match the high frequency output of the "dead spot" where his symphony seats were located. To his boss, that was what the music was supposed to sound like!