Resistor Sound Quality?

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It is indeed. That's why optical and aural illusions can be so fascinating, and why we can be delighted by skilled magicians.

Fascinating, no question. But the illusion is surely momentary, whether aural or visual. Our brain, after a moment of confusion, susses out reality does it not. Otherwise, how could the species have possibly survived the sabre tooth tiger ??
That twig you thought you heard snapping ? Just an aural illusion, pay no mind !
Btw, I don't think it's only my brain that's never found false-bottomed top hats all that mystifying.
 
ClaveFremen said:
And distortion can occur both filtering out or adding harmonics.
The only way that distortion can remove harmonics is if the distortion is the inverse of whatever added the harmonics. This is difficult to do deliberately, and almost impossible to do accidentally. Statistics tells us that there is one way to do it right, and lots of ways to do it wrong.

Therefore, if anyone prefers sound with added distortion this simply means that he prefers distortion - not that he is removing existing distortions. If more 'audiophiles' would admit this simple fact then many arguments on here would vanish. I have only seen a few people who do admit this of themselves.
 
Fascinating, no question. But the illusion is surely momentary, whether aural or visual.

Nope. Even when you know the "true" answer, the illusion can persist. For example, and this may come as a shock, but when you hear a centered instrument in a mix, there's no loudspeaker at that location. Yet, that perception of instrument location persists.

Brains lie. That's why placebos "work." That's why three card monte artists still make money. That's why some perceived sonic differences persist and others go away when you rely on only your ears.
 
nicoch58 said:
No is only a provocations , if you want know i have elettronic diploma and do some year ee study ...please
Can you find in your notes the place where the teacher told the class that it is important to align the component printing in a circuit loop? Did he also give advice about how to handle the situation where there are a number of coupled circuit loops so a component may be part of both a clockwise loop and an anticlockwise loop; which should take preference when aligning the component? Some of us went to inferior universities where these nuances of circuit construction were omitted from the course.
 
my are fact not insult ... please excuse me
PS marce don't need your help and I'm free to write here how I put my nice resistor

Telling me to go look at what is for sale in the DIY store is a (very poor) attempt at an insult. Accusing Marce of provocation when he asked a simple question is hiding behind the fact that you not only have a belief you cannot defend, but you seem to have forgotten a couple of fundamental facts about how an audio amplifier works.

You are free to write how you put them, but someone asking how you define direction in an AC system is perfectly valid and no reason to get defensive.
 
Nope. Even when you know the "true" answer, the illusion can persist. For example, and this may come as a shock, but when you hear a centered instrument in a mix, there's no loudspeaker at that location. Yet, that perception of instrument location persists.

Brains lie. That's why placebos "work." That's why three card monte artists still make money. That's why some perceived sonic differences persist and others go away when you rely on only your ears.

There's no shock, the examples you cite are all real things that we experience. But isn't the mistake that you make in the blanket assertion that the brain lies ? Doesn't it lie only some of the time and in certain situations ? The three card monte dude really has to hone his motor skills to fool you, otherwisec you'ld be able to keep track.
If our brain simply lies all the time, why can I always hear that first drop of rain on my windshield and why can I always locate it almost immediately if our senses of hearing and vision are so easily fooled or confused. I don't think our brain stops trying to fool us in moments of silence.
 
Brains don't lie. They define how we perceive reality. It only becomes problematic when people observe the same phenomenon, but perceive different realities.

Edit: at the same time, an argument can be made that brains are lying to us all the time, if only because we are so limited in the elements of reality our sensors register. Do you really think a crow is a black bird? Look at it in UV light, which birds can see.
 
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For example, and this may come as a shock, but when you hear a centered instrument in a mix, there's no loudspeaker at that location. Yet, that perception of instrument location persists.

C'mon, you very well know how that "effect" is generated and I am not sure if any human with organs in working order (!) is able to switch off detection of time delay differences or lack thereof that create that effect of stereo. And why would anyone want to?
 
C'mon, you very well know how that "effect" is generated and I am not sure if any human with organs in working order (!) is able to switch off detection of time delay differences or lack thereof that create that effect of stereo. And why would anyone want to?

Yes but the fact is still that the brain lies. There is NO instrument between the speakers. The brain is fooled, and tells you this illusion. Clear lie.

Jan
 
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