The Absurdity of it All

I think we can all agree that dogs have superior hearing.    I have 3 dogs and five systems.  The dogs have free range in the house.  When I put on music they are free to come and go.   My observations are that all three dogs come and lay down and listen to my TAD CR-1s and YG Acoustic carmels   Two dogs come and listen to my Audio physics tempos and my sonus faber  cremona Ms.  Only one dog comes and listens to my Vienna acoustic Mozarts.   And if I switch the direction of my cables, the dogs just go outside..... 

@kevn    

I have a couple of tracks I listen to for mids.

Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep

He has a deep voice normally, but it's particularly deep on this track. The upper register of his voice is what I listen to. I listen for how open it is.

Sade - Pearls 

She has a wide range in her singing on this track. Starts dark and rich and goes to some lovely highs. I listen for how clearly the middle part of that comes through

Rockers HiFi - Going Under

Like most electronic music, it has some extremes. Singer again has a dark register. I listen for how well the upper range of his voice comes through.

Bill Charlap - Stardust

Shirley Horns voice has a ton of air in this recording. I listen for how well it "floats" above the instruments.

And, of course, anything Ben Webster :)

Oh, and its the main version of Going Under on the K&D sessions...

jasonbourne52  You can hear a pin drop.  Wow!  That is proof to you, I presume, that you have perfect hearing.  Go get a test.  You will be surprised at the middle frequencies you do not hear, much less the ones above about 200 cps that a dropped pin makes;  however, we can just turn the volume up a whole lot and hear stuff that is normally silent to us. even if with a highly different frequency curve than a baby, or young teen.  I bet if you ask a bunch of tweens if they use a ringtone out of teh frequency of adults, you will find some a=who can demonstrate this to you.  This ring allows them to check messages in class, without allowing the teacher to hear it.

I was listening to a Milstein recording last night. I swear I heard a rosin particle fall off of his bow and hit the floor. 

Frank