Are most people deaf?

[CN211276]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/05/hifi-mus ... ar-it.html

I find this unbelievable, especially a it says the tests took place using quality equipment. To my ears the difference between Tidal Hi-Fi and Spotify, through a cheap smartphone and £40 AKG headphones, is night and day. This is magnified many times over on my system at home.

[Shevans]

I hear the difference between 320kbps streams and CD quality and thats on a entry level Bluesound speaker.

There is a guy on the Sonos forums who tells everyone that all solid state amps from the late 60's onwards sound identical and backs its up with what Peter Walker from Quad said problem is that people believe what's written rather than what they hear.

[joe]

I hear the difference between 320kbps streams and CD quality and thats on a entry level Bluesound speaker.

There is a guy on the Sonos forums who tells everyone that all solid state amps from the late 60's onwards sound identical and backs its up with what Peter Walker from Quad said problem is that people believe what's written rather than what they hear.

Worse still; they believe what someone says someone else said, even if the second someone has completely misquoted/misunderstood what the first someone said. Here are Peter Walker's own words, which are far from saying 'all amplifiers sound the same':

'So if you compare an amplifier with a straight wire, you've really got to make the straight wire have the same bandwidth as the amplifier, and the same terminating impedance as the amplifier. Once you do all these things, then the amps will be just as good as the
straight wire. The peripheral effects are what get people into trouble. You can see why you find these differences in amplifiers. You can always find them. If people test two amplifiers and say, "These sound different," there's no magic in it. Spend two days, maybe a whole week in the lab, and you find out exactly why they're different and you can write the whole thing down in purely practical,
physical terms. This is why these two sound different, and the cause is usually peripheral effects.'

[antonio66]

I don't think most people are deaf, just have different tastes although I look at systems on other forums and it would make me wonder why they bother.

[Geoff.R.G]

Not deaf, lazy!
When people are using music as wall paper they hear what they want to hear, only when they actually listen do they hear what is really there.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Same with looking. (and tasting and touching)

[Copperblue]

Most people over the age of 30, above 15kHz

Most people that prefer digital over vinyl......

[Colin Wonfor]

Not deaf, lazy!
When people are using music as wall paper they hear what they want to hear, only when they actually listen do they hear what is really there.

Lazy is right, I hate in most cases digital sound, it sounds like a better sounding station announcement from the seventies. No life or even image, and often due to Class D type amps no real bass, and that manly due to poor understanding of power supply designs with a true relationship with a it's load.

And sticking big caps on does not work, it gives false load, which then needs charging in a finite time.
I have got a tried and tested and patented version which solves the problem, but the digital lies still sound crap.

[alcarmichael]

Check out series 22, episode 3 of the gadget show.

[Colin Wonfor]

Pardon! what? yes I am. I should have listen to my mum and run away to the Navy