You've been a member here for almost 9 years so I thought that you would understand what level matched DBT is. Perhaps this video will be beneficial to you.
"Motivational salience is composed of two component processes that are defined by their attractive or aversive effects on an individual's behavior relative to a particular stimulus: incentive salience and aversive salience"
Motivational salience - Wikipedia
Motivational salience - Wikipedia
As has always been the case with people who hear small differences, it is evident to everyone who hears the exact same thing. The people that do are the peer group.
People who don't listen carefully are not the peers of those who do.
Perception visual or auditory occurs "in the moment" then its onto another perception. Lasting memory of what one really perceived is where the snake oil sales exploit. Because nobody really remembers what they perceived quantifiably, only that it might be "different" than another time, if both are not obviously distorted. Its all just relative to ones "reference du jour". When the optometrist flips lenses to fit one for glasses, that perception of the final two lenses he flipped is a very small improvement. If one had to tell the optometrist tomorrow which of those last two lens flips was clearer instead of in a millisecond, they couldnt do it. Sound is similarly perceived. Snake oil exploits memory, psychology and human weakness, addiction, etc. It has little to do with anything objective.
The optometrist analogy is an interesting one, they no longer ask which is clearer because they can see the retina themselves, imagine if that could be done with sound 😉 Probably not technically accurate, but you get my drift....
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A person brings a 1960's stereo console or a 1971 stereo receiver into my shop for whatever reasons.
To them, it "sounds fine" and "just needs" a little service - like a blown dial light, or a scratchy volume control.
They insist that it sounds wonderful otherwise.
What they don't know is - the sound quality that THEY ARE USED TO is compromised.
Deteriorating parts, aging - is so gradual that human perception (along with aging hearing) follows this.
Time after time, after I've done the servicing needed, including replacing those tired parts, done a full alignment, when they come to pick their stuff up, they are amazed at the difference.
Of course, it's a substantial and obvious difference.
To them, it "sounds fine" and "just needs" a little service - like a blown dial light, or a scratchy volume control.
They insist that it sounds wonderful otherwise.
What they don't know is - the sound quality that THEY ARE USED TO is compromised.
Deteriorating parts, aging - is so gradual that human perception (along with aging hearing) follows this.
Time after time, after I've done the servicing needed, including replacing those tired parts, done a full alignment, when they come to pick their stuff up, they are amazed at the difference.
Of course, it's a substantial and obvious difference.
There is a good deal of truth to this. My dad used the same Sony Trinitron TV for hours every day for almost 20 years. By the time he replaced it, the convergence was so bad you couldn't read text on a news channel anymore but it looked alright to him because it had happened over a period of years. If it had gone from perfect to bitched in one day, he surely would have noticed.
Happens with stylus change, and also some people have very dirty looking glasses, which I point out to them, and they are surprised at how much better they can see after a clean..
It so true, but if you don't have any technical abilities to judge what you are buying this is the only thing that motivate the buying reflex.
