The ear by nature is a strong and manipulable filter. It can editorialize on the fly and learn long term methods/ways better than just about any form of hardware we can imagine or realize.
The same goes for learning the differences between one amp and another.
Most ears can hear better than their owners think they can. Like learning a new language it’s about exposure and will - tied to the right kind of effort.
The ear, like the brain, is plastic. They have to be. They have to be. And they are. Nothing in your more elevated aspects of neurology is set in stone. Human life requires things to be this way.
We have predilections, tendencies, ruts we fall into... but this is all malleable, 100% so.
We each have a combination of natural capacities and a given plasticity, each person’s package and keys to that package being slightly different.
I think that people who say they can’t hear some aspects of sonic qualities are really selling themselves short, in the majority of cases.
If the given mind acts like a blunt force injected trauma of a freight train -- toward others in the audio world (charlatans! Snake oil! etc!)... then their hearing plasticity will be similarly affected. They’ll never learn to hear anything new.
The two go hand in hand...the two (hearing and mental projections into the world) are intimately linked in as many real world ways as you can imagine. All part of the same given neurological/physiological expression package.
Ie, angry denier, automatically hears nothing. Decides all others are the same or charlatans. We all know the story. That person is literally blocking their own potential for learning and knowing. No joke.
The reasons behind it illustrated and brought into the conversation can show, for all... the problems inherent in such a position.
The same goes for learning the differences between one amp and another.
Most ears can hear better than their owners think they can. Like learning a new language it’s about exposure and will - tied to the right kind of effort.
The ear, like the brain, is plastic. They have to be. They have to be. And they are. Nothing in your more elevated aspects of neurology is set in stone. Human life requires things to be this way.
We have predilections, tendencies, ruts we fall into... but this is all malleable, 100% so.
We each have a combination of natural capacities and a given plasticity, each person’s package and keys to that package being slightly different.
I think that people who say they can’t hear some aspects of sonic qualities are really selling themselves short, in the majority of cases.
If the given mind acts like a blunt force injected trauma of a freight train -- toward others in the audio world (charlatans! Snake oil! etc!)... then their hearing plasticity will be similarly affected. They’ll never learn to hear anything new.
The two go hand in hand...the two (hearing and mental projections into the world) are intimately linked in as many real world ways as you can imagine. All part of the same given neurological/physiological expression package.
Ie, angry denier, automatically hears nothing. Decides all others are the same or charlatans. We all know the story. That person is literally blocking their own potential for learning and knowing. No joke.
The reasons behind it illustrated and brought into the conversation can show, for all... the problems inherent in such a position.