Cat-O-meter


Measuring audio quality with your cat

I have a cat who loves to jump up on the back of my listening chair and listen to jazz but she is quite discriminating about the quality of the sound (or so it seems to me) She generally flees from "noise" like the vac and ignores sound from the TV and even CD's but if I play high resolution audio on my DAC or analog that quickly gets her attention. My theory is that cats are naturally predisposed to be interested in sound that has lots of locational information. So if a mouse they can't see, is making noise, they can position it based on the sound. But if a CD or TV has all its sound eminating from a direction that provides little infomation about 3d movement, this is uninteresting. Anyone have a similar experience?
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My cats like Nora Jones. So do I. But come on...You might be on to something there. I got Telarc Chiller as a gift but I can't play it. It's cruelty to kitties.
Our cat "tweedy" surprisingly loves SON VOLT but not WILCO. Our other cat "farrar" ran away - it'll be a year ago now this summer - because tweedy was hanging out too much with his girl friend (the neighbors cat).

Loud volumes are a turn off for the lil' fellah but rock he digs and hangs out in front of the rig paws stretched out and practically drooling whenever he hears the music playing....
My cat always sits on my speakers or on my stereo cabinet when I am playing vinyl. I just got a tube amp upstairs and he sits on the speakers up there now also. When I have TV or CD on downstairs, he settles by the window. He likes the public radio classic that I leave on for him during the day :).