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Brendan Heading <brendan@NOSPAMheading.demon.co.uk> wrote in article <dMdvDlA5Awd2EwLp@heading.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <3676EB3F.A42F476D@cabletron.com>, Michael Thomas
> <mithomas@cabletron.com> writes
> >Listen to it. Listen to it. Warm up the iron. Perception is often stronger and 
> >more
> >meaningful then data based on other sources.
> 
> Perception is coloured by what our minds are expecting to hear. You
> could take it to extremes and inject yourself full of LSD before
> listening to the CD - that would also "strengthen" your perception of
> the sound (but it might not necessarily be any more meaningful).
> 
> Philosophically speaking though, I guess if people feel that a sound is
> better by attaching rubber rings to their CDs for "stabilization"
> (cough, ahem) then why shouldn't they do it to improve their experience
> ? :)


Interesting!
Eventually arrived at the term "Perception".
Should the original post writer of this thread, Kit-pui Wong<kpwong@psy.cuhk.edu.hk> , come out & enlightened as on the
psychological viewpoint? 

I use this term too, for quite a number of circumstances in the HKRAV.
So, I copy a bit of information from Longman Concise Medical Dictionary for the definition of "Perception": 
" a process by which information received by senses is recognized, interpreted and analyzed to become meaningful."

So, for the same bits of information will result in different meaning to different person with difference in:
1. sensory organs structural & functional difference.
2. culture & personal preference.
3. psycho-social background.
4. the status of the sensorium of the audience. That is where the LSD (add hallucination), cigarette, alcohol ...... can affect the
auditory perception.
May I invite Mr. Wong's expert opinion on this.


Furthermore, the auditory "information" form the same CD is also highly variable for different audiophile settings. So, even the
same CD will sound very different in different audiophile settings (gears, audition environment).
So, there is also a question of revealing power of an audiophile settings & the software tested when we try to deliver
maybe-different "information" from original CD & the digital CD-R copy. 
This is my personal experience, a more revealing setting & more revealing software can more readily tell the different
"information" from the original CD & the digital CD-R copy.


So, I insist : "hearing is believing".
Whether someone can hear the difference is not a simple matter for discussion. This involved the "integrity of the information" in
an audiophile settings & "personal perception".
If someone "perceive" no auditory difference of the "information", why border.
None claim himself as "golden ears" when he found audible difference of the original CD & the digital CD-R copy, in the HKRAV. It
may be unfortunate for someone who hear the difference as he need to buy the original CD rather than made a CD-R copy.


Lee HC