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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Preamp and Amp
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:48:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.164841.17558@bilver.uucp>
- References: <185059@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1993Jan21.164550.1069@bnr.ca> <1993Jan21.205458.29108@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan21.205458.29108@leland.Stanford.EDU> kong@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kong Kritayakirana) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan21.164550.1069@bnr.ca> Dave Dal Farra <gpz750@bnr.ca> writes:
-
- >>c. The concept that Golden-Ears are self professed ego-maniacs and that
- > [unimportant stuff deleted]
-
- >If their ears are so golden, how come these golden eared people refuse to
- >participate in A/B comparison? Do they need their eyes to see the brand name
- >in order to make their golden ears work?
-
- When I worked in the studio I did run across people who were truly
- golden-eared.
-
- The interesting thing that I found in the pro-audio arena, is that
- those who professed they were golden-eared, weren't.
-
- And those, who from observation were classified golden eared by others,
- didn't think they were.
-
- Those were the people we went to when we wanted to confirm/deny our
- observations after making modifications. We had one client in the
- studio once who heard a 1/2 db mis-track in the monitor pot. He kept
- insisting the image shifted, and he marked the place on the console
- where it was centered, and the part where it was shifted. We got the
- equipment out and measaured it. He was right. He also had the
- uncanny ability to KNOW how long a song was - and was always within
- about 1 second of absolute time. His name was Turley Richards, and
- was a blind singer - who didn't go blind until his late teen years.
- Finding someone like that really makes you wonder what the average
- person is missing when they listen.
-
- A true 'golden-ear' status can not be proclaimed, it must be bestowed
- upon a person.
-
- And often 'golden-ears' are nothing more than a person who has
- 'learned' to listen critically.
-
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill@bilver.uucp
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