From bw@ashbysolutions.com Fri Feb 03 09:29:32 2012
Subject:Re: How exact are our ears?

That was a great presentation. I watched the whole thing -- which now
set me an hour back on my day's work, thank you very much! ;-)

And it's so accurate: I recently bought a new set of studio monitors
(long story), and one of them had a *very* minor problem: the power LED
doesn't light. I called the store I bought them from, and the seller
agreed to replace them, no questions asked; or to give me a very
generous discount to keep the 'bad' one. He told me to take the weekend
before deciding. So, I started to listen very carefully to the two
speakers, testing all different genres of music, at various volume
levels, with and without EQ. You know, the kind of OCD-like stuff that
audio folks love to do. And the 'good' one clearly sounded better to me
at higher volume levels ...

Then I figured out how to instantly swap the L+R channels on my mixer.
Other than the momentary glitch while the channels switch -- and of
course, the inverted sound stage -- I can hear absolutely *no*
difference between swapped and unswapped versions. There is no problem
with the 'bad' monitor, other than the power LED. I'm keeping the
monitors, and learning again how subjective 'better' and 'worse' can be
in audio.

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The 12-Step Clonewheel Plan:

1. Go play your clonewheel and stop obsessing on new gear.

2 - 12. Repeat Step 1.

Regards,

-BW

Bruce Wahler
Ashby Solutions.com^(TM)
bw@ashbysolutions.com
http://music.ashbysolutions.com
877.55.ASHBY (877.552.7429)

On 2/2/2012 11:30 AM, frederick_somerville wrote:
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