Re:ears

[Malhomme Olivier <malhomme@infobiogen.fr>]

To add fuel about sounds and feels of sound, I read somewhere a great
history for those who think that beyond 20 Khz (at best) there is no
reason to possibly ear anything.

It is the story of a great  world wide known Sound Engineer (whose name
escapes me at the time, but I can look for it) who had trouble with  a
big Neve or SSL mixing desk (but can one still use the word "desk"?). He
felt something uncomfortable in the high end without being able to
pinpoint what. In the end after testing of the unit. The people of
(either Neve or SSL) discovered that the unit had on a few inputs, some
bad soldering things that created a frequency peak at ... 56 KHz!

We are certainly (I mean i am) talking highly trained ears, but that
says a bit long on what we really know about the possiblity sounds can
affect us. I mean this guy is paid to work with his ears. Where he
would  say "that doen't work" we just would say "I don't like too much
that sound. And probably only would we note that in a rather unconscious
way, so it just would be a discomfort feeling... See what I mean?
The funny story is that is was digital signals... You know this things
that don't run higher than 22050 kHz (or 48 if you sample @96kHz...).
mmmmmm...
Olivier Malhomme