Hello Athmaspere,
LOVE your posts !!!!
I said that John Atkinson " input signal can be subject of discussion" and this is exactly what you did !
Even more interesting your comment: "... if the waveform is fast enough and lacking manipulation, the limbic system does the processing, but if too slow and certain harmonics are added, the processing is done by the cerebral cortex (emotional vs intellectual). "
Is exactly the same that Simon Thacher of Spectron wrote in the article I referred to:
"...The exploration of the origin of "listener fatigue" is extremely interesting, at least, for this writer. We believe that when our subconscious mind detects a small unnatural trace of distortion in reproduced acoustic music (which is not recognized yet as a very low level irritant by the analytical part of our brain) it activates a subtle alarm. This forces the listener into the tense or alert mode. Indirectly supporting this hypothesis is the common description we hear from Spectron users who utilize the two powerful monoblock amplifiers (7 kW peak power, each): "how relaxing" is my listening now "
Analytical part of the brain is the cortex, of course as you pointed out and emotional (or subconscious mind as Simon calls it) is our old reptilian brain
Its amazing - only from both of you I hear CLEARLY and bearly identically how audio engineering is related to our "undertsanding" of music
LOVE your posts !!!!
I said that John Atkinson " input signal can be subject of discussion" and this is exactly what you did !
Even more interesting your comment: "... if the waveform is fast enough and lacking manipulation, the limbic system does the processing, but if too slow and certain harmonics are added, the processing is done by the cerebral cortex (emotional vs intellectual). "
Is exactly the same that Simon Thacher of Spectron wrote in the article I referred to:
"...The exploration of the origin of "listener fatigue" is extremely interesting, at least, for this writer. We believe that when our subconscious mind detects a small unnatural trace of distortion in reproduced acoustic music (which is not recognized yet as a very low level irritant by the analytical part of our brain) it activates a subtle alarm. This forces the listener into the tense or alert mode. Indirectly supporting this hypothesis is the common description we hear from Spectron users who utilize the two powerful monoblock amplifiers (7 kW peak power, each): "how relaxing" is my listening now "
Analytical part of the brain is the cortex, of course as you pointed out and emotional (or subconscious mind as Simon calls it) is our old reptilian brain
Its amazing - only from both of you I hear CLEARLY and bearly identically how audio engineering is related to our "undertsanding" of music