Do I really need an " Audio Grade Network Switch "?

[Randy Myers]

The ASR guys have got their head up their collective *ss. One of the foundational misconceptions that they fundamentally operate by is that the 1) the ear is a microphone and 2) the brain is a tape recorder. As we know, nothing could be further the from the truth. Nelson Pass understands this, though, which is why he is working with a neuroscientist on how the brain* "constructs music".

The "experience" of music is a construct of the brain. All that speakers or a musical instrument do is pressurize the air. They do not do anything else. So does a 2-stroke chain saw. Yet the latter is perceived by the brain as "noise" and Yeol Eum Son playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467, as the former, is constructed by our brains as "music".

This important distinction is what ASR does not acknowledge nor understand.

*- Another example of the brain is responsible for constructing the experience of "music" is there are folks that have suffered brain damage or injury that have become tone deaf, i.e., they cannot distinguish differences in pitch.

Excellent post!

 

[rbbert]

With the exception of medical researchers (many of whom are MD, PhD's) may be accurately categorized as scientists, as someone who spent over 40 years as a molecular biologist with peer-reviewed publications e.g. Science, PNAS, Blood, ASHG Journal, etc., in my professional view, "regular MD's" are highly-trained technicians, but not what I would classify as scientists.

Isn't that what I posted (using different phrasing)? What you don't comment on are serious and growing efforts to change that, because basing medicine as much as possible on scientific principles can only help health care (although without a thorough revamping the US health care system will continue circling the drain)

 

[rbbert]

...The "experience" of music is a construct of the brain. All that speakers or a musical instrument do is pressurize the air. They do not do anything else. So does a 2-stroke chain saw. Yet the latter is perceived by the brain as "noise" and Yeol Eum Son playing Mozart's Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467, as the former, is constructed by our brains as "music"...

Although they may not be consciously aware of it, I think most audiophiles know this, as I posted earlier