[Re: Vinyl/CD], they can't hear

[Martin Czech]

> 5) My conclusion: its not the "medium"... its the Message. Art intended from
> the get-go for CD rivals any Vinyl releases (IMHO). Art sloppily re-packaged
> for an undiscerning public with an attitude of "they can't hear it anyway"
> SUCKS !!!  
>-----------------+	

They can't hear it anyway....

I've made the experience that this is very true.
I'm not very good in listening to triad chords in order to
tell what chord it is, and what of the three possible
viocings is used (ok, I'm mostly right..)

That is because I'm not educated to do so.
Musicians are.

But most musicians are not educated to decide between slightly different
sounds, indeed timbre doesn't matter so much for the music pieces played.
There where listening test where musicians had big problems to figure
out what the actually heard (some professors among), but tech people
had no problem at all, simply because they where used to it.

I remember buying a digital piano for a friend, a musician, went to the
shops with him.  I could hear all kinds of artefacts (noise, digital
crosstalk, bad multisampling etc etc) where he heard nothing suspicious
at all, and I had a hard time  until he finally could hear that , too.

This is not because I'm so smart, but because my friend is listening
abstract information, he hears chords and tunings, not the actuall sound.
If he hears an old grammophone Caruso recording he is able
to hear none of the artefacts (noise, bandwidth) because he knows
how it should be.

So, sometimes a good musical education can be of disadvantage....


It is very likely that we synth-diy people have a lot of listening
practise, so we are very sensitive to artefacts....

And:

I've noticed the the general public, including the so called music
lovers, are absolutely stone deaf. They don't even know whjat I'm talking
about. There where listening tests that showed that a good percentage of
people can't decide between a note and the octaved note....


Same with me on video:
If the engineers in my company have finally fixed their new anti-artefact
video-filter-dsp, jumping up and down, drinking Champagne, I get by,
look at the screen... and see nothing, ie. no improvement at all.

Then, after 15 min. of explanations I might be able to see a difference,
but only if I have processed and unprocessed video side by side.

So I'm video blind, as they are audio deaf.


This may be because I have -6 dioptries (sp?) on both eyes, so I had
to listen hard right from the start..... ;->


m.c.