We always carry with us an expectation of how well-known sounds, music, speech etc, should sound. This expectation gives an initial gut feeling, sort of subliminal perception, of better or worse sound before we can concretely identify what deviates in the sound.
The spontaneous gut feeling is always there when virgin listening to unfamiliar audio products. The gut feeling reflects previous experiences and gives an expectation if the music/speech is not previously unfamiliar. Often, but not always, gut feelings provide an emotional component with no real cognitive facts to relate to. The gut feeling is often a subliminal perception without clear cognitive clarity. Gut feeling doesn't always identify better sounds - just that the sound deviates from our internal reference.
With a scientific physical analysis, the gut feeling can be concretized in physical terms.
When a friend and I compared two different speakers Carlsson XX with the Apogee Duetta in the friend's hi-fi cave, the spontaneous reaction was a completely different one.
The friend's gut feeling was that Carlsson XX was the world's best speaker.
I spontaneously experienced the Carlsson XX as a distorting toy speaker.
With a logical physical analysis, one can gain some understanding from the first gut feelings.
My spontaneous gut feeling reflected higher distortion and poorer spatial contribution than I was used to - the Quad 989.
The friend's gut feeling reflects his learned expectation of optimal sound.
There is no right or wrong when it comes to gut feeling. The physical analysis including the context can possibly explain the difference.
Subliminal perception refers to visual and auditory information presented at a speed and or intensity that is below the conscious threshold of perception through one or more channels and, thus, not readily apparent to the subject (Moore, 1982).
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The spontaneous gut feeling is always there when virgin listening to unfamiliar audio products. The gut feeling reflects previous experiences and gives an expectation if the music/speech is not previously unfamiliar. Often, but not always, gut feelings provide an emotional component with no real cognitive facts to relate to. The gut feeling is often a subliminal perception without clear cognitive clarity. Gut feeling doesn't always identify better sounds - just that the sound deviates from our internal reference.
With a scientific physical analysis, the gut feeling can be concretized in physical terms.
When a friend and I compared two different speakers Carlsson XX with the Apogee Duetta in the friend's hi-fi cave, the spontaneous reaction was a completely different one.
The friend's gut feeling was that Carlsson XX was the world's best speaker.
I spontaneously experienced the Carlsson XX as a distorting toy speaker.
With a logical physical analysis, one can gain some understanding from the first gut feelings.
My spontaneous gut feeling reflected higher distortion and poorer spatial contribution than I was used to - the Quad 989.
The friend's gut feeling reflects his learned expectation of optimal sound.
There is no right or wrong when it comes to gut feeling. The physical analysis including the context can possibly explain the difference.
Subliminal perception refers to visual and auditory information presented at a speed and or intensity that is below the conscious threshold of perception through one or more channels and, thus, not readily apparent to the subject (Moore, 1982).
Most of us here not the target of those shenanigan's (have the opposite effect on us), but they obviously work on most consumers.
