What human ears are able to listen to is not CUTTED linear chunk of sound measured in decibels...Decibel meter cannot evaluate acoustic meaning but can help to implement better physical conditions for his experience thats all...What i hears cannot be described by a narrow window in Hertz sorry...It is more complex than that...
Human ears/brain listen to an integrated and an integral totality of information so complex to figure out that NO TOOL right now can replace the ears/brain translated interpretation and creative system...We can add to it some electronical appendice yes to help some, for some task, but we cannot replace it in ALL his functions for now, because ears are integrated not only with the brain, BUT WITH ALL THE BODY system and even with the eyes brain system....
Read psycho-acoustic....
I own a book of 800 pages about TIMBRE perception only, and no simplistic explanation of what is timbre perception exist and will never exist... Guess why?
It is because ears are not a "tool" like other measuring tools.... Ears dont measure very restricted and specific aspect of sound ONLY AND MAINLY but create also new meaningful aspect of sound or TRANSLATE natural sound in located meaningful one and ESPECIALLY RETRIEVE very conplex information HIDDEN deep in the sound source resonant body and in his environment...
And saying that the eyes /ears interaction may create biases is not false , but it is completely ridiculous argument when someone want to discredit ALL biases, especially the one we must cultivate in acoustic to learn how to listen because he doubt that some reviewer hear what they hear and ask for blind test all the time like an opinionated children or a measurement fanatic ...
Of course placebo and nocebo effect exist in the TWO directions though, wanting to listen something or negating to have listen something... Of course blind test may be useful to eliminate biases in some necessary experiments...But nobody learn acoustic and acquired the necessary biases to do so and tune his room/system with blind test only and mainly...
We must learn HOW to listen, not erasing all biases at all cost, in the opposite we must develop and cultivate many new biases... Replacing old biases by new one...It is precisely the task of an acoustician and of a musician...
Anyway, half joking here, my room/system is anything but beautiful to see.... Too much ugly devices... Then.... No esthetical biases here for me.... 😁😊
By the way human ears can almost do what bats do in a great measure: read about echo localization in blind people...
And survival evolutive history did not end many thousand years ago, man create civilzation and music and language with his ears... Survival here is survival of cultures and not only survival of the physical body by localization of sounds...
A musical sound is so complex to define that i own a 1200 pages book about it ande musical sound is not ELUCIDATED scientifically for now...It is the same phenomenon for speech sound...
«American bats will never understand French sound»-Groucho Marx 🤓
I don’t know where this notion of ears being a great tool, they’re "tools" cobbled together by millions of years of evolution they’re simply good enough for us to survive. There are tools that hear way beyond human ears just as there are tools that see way beyond the human eye.
