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Default Is flat frequency response desirable?

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On Apr 23, 8:11 pm, "Gary Eickmeier"
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On Apr 21, 7:20 am, "Gary Eickmeier"
wrote: How does it manage to
seperate the ambient information from everything else?


The precedence effect.


I'll bite, what's that?


http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~litovsky/papers/1999-3.pdf

"In a reverberant environment, sounds reach the ears through several
paths. Although the direct sound is followed by multiple reflections,
which would be audible in isolation, the first-arriving wavefront
dominates many aspects of perception. The "precedence effect" refers
to a group of phenomena that are thought to be involved in resolving
competition for perception and localization between a direct sound
and a reflection. "