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Originally Posted by Clayphish To add, strident things can also be favored. Take a fiddle, bag pipes, or a cymbal for that matter. So how does one measure what is favored by frequency pick-up of the ears? |
One doesn't.
The differences in the response curves of people's ears strikes me as being something independent from their personal preferences.
I could be for example hyper-sensitive to high frequencies. I
might therefore seek out darker sounds to compensate, but I could just as easily crave more more more of those lovely high frequencies. the physiological and psychological basis of my hearing does not dictate my emotional responses to a particular sound or range of sounds.
There seems to be an unwarranted assumption floating around here that we are motivated to
seek 'flat' as our ears perceive it. Why? Why would we?
Artistic intention is also uncorrelated with perception
Monet's cataracts influenced him to paint yellowed, blurry paintings which reflected the world as he was seeing it. I know another painter with cataracts who used ever bolder and brighter colors trying to
counteract the 'insipid' paintings he was afraid he was making.