gregwhartley wrote:In either case, whether it be preference or necessity, I believe it better to mix naturally and leave the seasoning to the end listener's requirements. Those who need it can always blast the treble with the help of their fancy car and home stereos, leaving the rest of us with our more tasteful 0 - +/-3 dB boosts/cuts.
Yup. Leave it to the consumers to mess up, I reckon.
jrdmcdnld wrote:Instead of the loudness wars, we'll have the brightness wars.
Scary. I belive that crankin' the brightness will only exacerbate the problem as it would encourage lazy ears.
You know - use it or lose it.
Folks just aren't as good at listening as they used to be are they? Are they? Hello?
The active component seems to have been lost somewhat, surely a symptom of a lack of empathy as well as a "bring it to me and lay it on" approach to the listening process and indeed to life.
If we don't like the delivery, we tend now to turn away more, rather than put any work into "listening in" to the material.
The latter action would constitute gym work for the ear/brain, IMHO, and partially explains the rise in tinnitis incidence.
Case in point - consider that we all used to listen to AM radio; that was a workout.
So along comes FM, and what does it do? It lays it all on thicker than dried molasses.
Then, just to add insult to injury, along come perscanal... um... personal earphones, and they literally ram it down your throat.
I know, the increased volume at which we tend to listen nowadays is usually blamed, but I believe the ultimate cause of this itself is laziness.
You know, back in the day, the old school method of dealing with tinnitis was to encourage the subject to "listen in" to many and varied sources.
Actually, this was Bernard Jensen's (a pioneer of iridology and naturopathy) method in the '40s.
My 2• monkey-angle.
