"How'd it be if someone went to your systems page and kept posting comments about how "bogus" your homemade room treatments were and demanding you prove they work? (I happen to think they're cool, inspiring and impressive, btw)."
He or she would probably like it & would tell you how to measure the effects if you wished. Effective room acoustic treatments leave a measurable footprint and many of us take various db measurements across our listening room when establishing acoustic treatment & subwoofer setup up & etc.
There are some pretty out there room acoustics things, telephone playback of magic signals for example, that do not leave a measurable footprint.
It could be argued I guess that one shouldn't refrain from spending money on the out there room acoustics things because they haven't tried them ?
"Why does it bother you that some of us perhaps have more sensitive hearing (by way of nature or training) in certain specific ways than others do? "
I think we all except the above to be a fact. I don't know that it bothers anyone but maybe it does. The thing is that the thresholds of human hearing are well established and are orders of magnitude below the thresholds of signal detection by other means. If you tell your neighbor that you can hear a mouse pass wind during a thunderstorm, he is going to give you a funny look.
He or she would probably like it & would tell you how to measure the effects if you wished. Effective room acoustic treatments leave a measurable footprint and many of us take various db measurements across our listening room when establishing acoustic treatment & subwoofer setup up & etc.
There are some pretty out there room acoustics things, telephone playback of magic signals for example, that do not leave a measurable footprint.
It could be argued I guess that one shouldn't refrain from spending money on the out there room acoustics things because they haven't tried them ?
"Why does it bother you that some of us perhaps have more sensitive hearing (by way of nature or training) in certain specific ways than others do? "
I think we all except the above to be a fact. I don't know that it bothers anyone but maybe it does. The thing is that the thresholds of human hearing are well established and are orders of magnitude below the thresholds of signal detection by other means. If you tell your neighbor that you can hear a mouse pass wind during a thunderstorm, he is going to give you a funny look.