In Reply to: It's not a conspiracy posted by JeffH on February 13, 2015 at 11:28:44:
"it's just that they can't hear a difference, so why bother. This could be because of many factors, a couple of which is hearing in general or the quality of components used."
They probably never learned critical listening. It doesn't take expensive equipment to hear the difference between hi-res and Redbook. It doesn't even require an exceptionally high quality recording, as the difference can be perfectly audible starting with a good quality cassette recording, once you've learned what to listen for. However, if your only source of training is listening to different commercial masterings then it may be difficult to learn the relevant factors as they will be buried in a sea of other differences. At the expense of being flamed again, I will suggest that the best way to learn about audio is to make recordings as well as just playing them back.
Their are other sources of the problem. They define differences that do not pass a double blind test to be illusory. However, they lack basic knowledge of human perception, reaching false conclusions from inadequate experimental tests. This false knowledge makes many of these people willfully deaf to differences that they could actually hear if they listened carefully with an open mind.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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