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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 81589" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Awesome idea for sound projectNot to put too fine a point on this... human hearing sensitivity logically evolved to match the output range of human speech. Perhaps preferentially to babies frequency range, which is why crying babies are so annoying to us. Our adaption to localize sabre toothed tigers would be our sensitivity to differences in arrival time for transient sounds between ears.&nbsp; I am not aware significant differences in sensitivity between individuals, other than experience based losses. The outer ear differences will alter pinnae transforms (comb filtering), but this seems like something we would learn and adjust for as they change while we grow. Perhaps sound system operators should be required to have acceptably undamaged hearing frequency response, and be kept away from the faders if they don&#039;t hear sounds as loud as the audience. Another consideration, some music sounds annoying at any volume. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 81589, member: 126"] Re: Awesome idea for sound project Not to put too fine a point on this... human hearing sensitivity logically evolved to match the output range of human speech. Perhaps preferentially to babies frequency range, which is why crying babies are so annoying to us. Our adaption to localize sabre toothed tigers would be our sensitivity to differences in arrival time for transient sounds between ears. I am not aware significant differences in sensitivity between individuals, other than experience based losses. The outer ear differences will alter pinnae transforms (comb filtering), but this seems like something we would learn and adjust for as they change while we grow. Perhaps sound system operators should be required to have acceptably undamaged hearing frequency response, and be kept away from the faders if they don't hear sounds as loud as the audience. Another consideration, some music sounds annoying at any volume. JR [/QUOTE]

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