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I Finally Confirmed It’s Not All in My Head…With Graphs!

Data is the raw data. Data becomes information when the data is organized and given context so it can be consumed and used by a person.
That's how I see it too. Data just is. On its own it doesn't mean anything. Information, otoh, relates to some human purpose, it informs the purpose, and in the context of the purpose it has meaning. That's the difference. And the two can relate to each other, which I like to conceive as: we can ask questions of the data that may inform our purpose.

I have to thank my wife for challenging me on this question many years ago. At first, despite my engineering background, I couldn't clearly answer it and that really bugged me for a long time. That's how I know now that it's a good question.
 
That is not true, because you don't have the processing unit of that data. You should wire the microphone trough the filter of you brain to get the real accurate data of what you hear. That procesing unit is important, because has to decode the data.

I think you are losing track of the purpose of this experiment! He wants to know if he is "actually" hearing music when he thinks he is hearing music. So he needs to confirm that there are sound waves entering his ears, and that those sound waves are, in fact, characteristic of what we commonly describe as "music".

But if he needed to validate that he is actually thinking he hears music, when he is thinking that he thinks that he hears music, then your methodology would be a valid option.
 
So he needs to confirm that there are sound waves entering his ears, and that those sound waves are, in fact, characteristic of what we commonly describe as "music".
Do we have a measurement protocol to distinguish music other signals? Is it included in REW?

And can that meter be adapted to examine the proposition that tube amps are more musical?
 
I am curious if it is possible to distinguish a tune from music, given the relevant REW graphs?

Or a ditty for that matter?
 
REW sounds like music to my ears.
 
Do we have a measurement protocol to distinguish music other signals? Is it included in REW?

And can that meter be adapted to examine the proposition that tube amps are more musical?

The OP listed 4 criteria he used, which he believe are sufficient to determine if pressure waves traveling through an atmosphere consisting of a majority if nitrogen gas represent "music"

I do not know if these 4 criteria by themselves will stand up to scrutiny, and I am not aware of any ISO standard defining music in a scientific way.
 
FWIW, I considered analyzing the waveform over time, looking for recurring peaks that could be correlated against perceived rhythmic patterns, but I got tired.
 
On occasion, after much brandy, I perceive the eye-tiring REW graphs in "stereo".
Oddly, the following morning I observed it had only been a graph of a mono signal.
Still unsure if it was a tune or a ditty.
Most confusing.
 
That is some insane resolution there. I feel like I am there just by looking at these graphs!

BTW: Welcome to the forum Mike.
I am glad to read this. I though I was the only one transported to the performance venue by looking into those datumes graphs.
 
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