<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Tuning is a funny thing. While at MIssissippi College I met a Choctaw chief who had led a high school band for many years before retirement. He could tune any instrument, of course, but he could not match a pitch with his voice. It sounded awful. As for you, try a set of expensive headphones at a shop. You might be surprised. Or you might have high frequency hearing loss like I do. Then you just turn up the treble. Males lose the treble far sooner than females, for probably some evolutionary reason involving babies. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 3:01 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-10-01 11:51, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> p.s. - I have a great and wonderful stereo system costing many thousands <br>
> of dollars. I do wonder if the kids now listening to iPods with earbuds <br>
> have any knowledge of just how music can sound if you have true bass <br>
> (15"" woofers) and very high fidelity (way, way past compressed MP3 <br>
> files). Since I have hearing aids in both ears I cannot find out what <br>
> they are hearing. Probably the only time they get to hear good sound is <br>
> in movie theaters.<br>
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Once upon a time I was interested in musical tuning. I even invented a <br>
theoretical improvement on quarter-comma meantone, but lacked the skill <br>
to try it out.<br>
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Later I found that I have a tin ear for that sort of thing. Can't even <br>
tune a guitar by ear, because the differences in color between strings <br>
drown out the differences in pitch.<br>
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So I assume "good" audio would be wasted on me.<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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